I keep reading articles that talk about the looming Android threat to iPhone's supremacy as *the* smartphone to rule the mobile web space.

Canada has long had quite a love affair with Apple with a third of smartphones sold. Sure, it's #2 to Blackberries but since they're increasingly irrelevant, especially in the mobile web space, I'll ignore it for the purposes of this post. But all the news is buzzing these days about how Android has doubled its market share and is now used by a quarter of Canadian smarthone users (all references from Financial Post article).

So by that count you'd expect to see Android web usage to be near that of iPhones. Trouble is that's not what I'm seeing from our mobile web traffic. iOS has grown steadily and now has a nearly 9:1 advantage over every other OS combined. And while Android traffic is dropping to below 4% iPad traffic has spiked, up 3X in unique users in the last year.

This leaves me with a simple conclusion: Android devices may be making inroads in terms of owners but those owners are just not using the mobile web as actively as iOS users are. So why develop for Android devices? I'd rather focus on iOS and wait until the Androids really do take over...