Comments on: You say tomato, I say tomato http://the.maccouch.com/2012/08/02/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato/ Just another _temporary_ Wordpress site Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:40:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: Jason Grigsby http://the.maccouch.com/2012/08/02/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato/#comment-25 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:19:20 +0000 http://the.maccouch.com/?p=1315#comment-25 When Gruber and others have argued that Android users don’t use their phones like a smartphone, but instead like a feature phone, one of the arguments given is based on web browsing behavior.

This web browsing behavior–or lack thereof–combined with other factors, cause people to believe that many Android users have a different mental model or a different way of interacting with their phones. That they think of their phones as just phones, not computers.

What I’m saying is that when Android devices are on cellular networks, that usage of Android is much closer to iOS suggesting not a difference in mental models, but instead some other explanation.

In other words, when it comes to web browsing on cellular, Android users don’t act like feature phone users. They act much more like iPhone users. That’s worth examining.

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