That's Marcos hyperbole based on the fact that Android has, according to IDC, a 63% tablet marketshare in 2013 (iOS has 33%), yet, as you stated, only 25% browsing share. So, Android has double the market share, but only a quarter the browsing share. Hence, the comment generalizing that people with Android tablets aren't browsing the web with them.

The whole thing is silly because browsing is clearly a reflection of installed base while "market share" is (usually) talking about the current rate of sales, which are fluctuating year by year on an exponential scale.

Android phones came a year after the release of the iPhone. 5 years later, the iPhone still dominates web usage share.

I see a similar trend when comparing web usage share between Android tablets and iPads.

> Android phones came a year after the release of the iPhone

In 2010, 3 years after iPhone release, Android had around 8% market share. It grew something like 1200% that year. These things aren't linear with time.

Currently, Android has 80% smartphone market share. Android smartphone market share growth is over. And yet, iPhone web usage share remains much higher than Android’s.

"Android barely beats iOS in terms of mobile web browsers that actually go online."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/10/16/why-do-onl...

where do you get your numbers?

Hitslink and Statcounter.

so you are tracking your own sites. well maybe they appeal to iOS users.

Eh, no. Hitslink’s data[1] comes from approximately 160 million visitors per month. StatCounter’s data[1] comes more than 3 million websites. Caveat: StatCounter’s hasn’t been reporting very reliable global stats lately, it’s most useful for Europe and North America.

Personally, I use Mint[3] for analytics on my websites, iOS usage share is much higher for those.

[1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qp...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/

[3] http://haveamint.com

neither of those is specifically for tablets.

Who needs a tablet when you can surf on a reasonably sized phone/phablet? You know, the kind of size Apple doesn't sell.

I agree with this but in a much less snarky way. ;) I have an iPhone 4 and an HTC One. I find the 4 now frustratingly small and I'm sure if it were my only phone I'd use an iPad mini or iPad at home a lot more. With my HTC One I'm rarely frustrated. I'd be interested in a tablet but just don't feel I'd really use it because the HTC One is bigger. So that might be an odd factor driving iPad Mini's/iPad's in an Apple centric customer.

Eh? That's all I mostly do on my 7" Asus, it's what my friends and family use their Android tablets for. Unless "browses the web" means something different in Apple parlance? But hey, no surprises from Marco with his partisan love of Apple, no doubt we'll have some additional Apple waffle like this from from Gruber on the front page.

I think even Marco says that kind of thing tongue in cheek. At least, I hope so.