Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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Isn't making the browser indistinguishable from the OS what Microsoft got sued for and essentially forced to remove from Windows? Why is nobody talking about this statement from Google?
No, Microsoft was sued for disallowing competitors to replace the browser. MS tried to claim it was an integral part of the OS until someone came along and proved them wrong by removing it.
And part and parcel to the whole suit was Microsoft's claim that the reason/need for IE was its move to integrating it into the OS:
"Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free. Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS."