Android reports it's browser UA as a Apple handset!

[mgillespie]

Note the navigator.vendor string

Surely this leads to artificially inflated stats regarding iPhone use..

I got this capture from my HTC Hero running official HTC 2.1 ROM

 

[Gravy Jones]

The browser is based on the WebKit engine.

 

[mgillespie]

The browser is based on the WebKit engine.

Which Apple stole from KHTML project. So why is my Android reporting it being made my the most evil corporation on the planet (aside Microsoft)?

 

[Gravy Jones]

oh brother

 

[odhinn]

Relax. Metrics companies know how to tell browsers apart, or haven't you ever noticed how the user agent string for Internet Explorer starts with "Mozilla" which used to mean it was a Netscape browser before Microsoft started hijacking that way back when.