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Comment by RyanZAG | Hacker News Reader

iOS users still are 80% of those actively web browsing from their mobiles

Please stop repeating false information with no source, it makes the rest of your post very difficult to believe.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201202-20130...

Some stats class the iPads as "mobile", which makes "iOS" do much better since people use them as laptop replacements and they've historically outsold Android (or other) tablets. I believe Statcounter doesn't (edit: "We define a mobile device as a pocket-sized computing device, typically having a display screen with touch input or a miniature keyboard.").

People either get confused, or just switch to whichever number is bigger to suit their argument, but people replacing a netbook with an iPad doesn't make Android phones worse to surf the net.

Err, that's "Stat Counter GLOBAL stats".

Try "North America", "Japan" etc.

As I wrote explicitly above, Apple goes for the higher end of the market.

So, global stats (which include third world or relatively poor countries) wont show the same things. Those regions buy far fewer Apple stuff.

Here are the US results from the very same source you gave:

http://gs.statcounter.com/?chart_type=line&statType_hidd...

What I said is backed up by multiple sources for the US. But even Globally (which I was not speaking of), they fair quite well, given the higher margins et all:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/apple-and-samsung-displace-n...

I think http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8&qpcu... is more believable based on correlation with other sources of data.

While it may be more believable, the sample sizes and methodologies behind the two sites appear to differ.

marketshare.hitslink.com lists that they track "approximately 160 million visitors per month" to "40,000 websites" [1][2]

statscounter.com lists that they track "15 billion page views per month" to "3 million+ global websites" [3]

This seems to imply that there is a bit of difference in which traffic is tracked by the two, and that statscounter.com is probably tracking a larger share of global traffic. I'd be hesitant to say that marketshare.hitslink.com is 'more believable' - perhaps it simply tracks a subset of websites more similar to your own?

In addition, with statscounter.com tracking page hits rather than 'unique visitors' as marketshare.hitsink.com does, it seems to imply that each Android user would use their web browser more heavily than each iOS user?

[1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-methodology.aspx [2] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/faq.aspx#Methodology [3] http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#net-apps

EDIT: Indeed, filtering statscounter.com by USA market only gives figures very similar to marketshare.hitslink.com:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201202-20130...

I'd argue that the global stats are far more important than the USA only ones, but you're free to disagree! And just to try and tie this back to the original point a bit: all of these stats are a very long way from 80%.

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