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#16 .Neo

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 22:30

Next year will be the year of Linux!


:laugh: Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face...


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Posted 03 September 2010 - 22:37

View PostSubject Delta, on 03 September 2010 - 21:13, said:

I somehow doubt those figures, the massive amount of Android devices being activated does not tie in with such a ridiculously small marketshare.

Being activated doesn't imply being actively used for browsing, at least not as much as iphones or maybe just not on the sites where the metrics are being collected.

Personally the only browsing I do on my android phone is on a small bunch of sites I've on my bookmarks, which might or might not count for those stats.

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 22:47

I don't really know, but I use my device for some browsing. The problem with stats like these, is that they are only accurate if the sites are as likely to be visited by mobile users as they are by desktop users, and that may not always be the case.

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 22:48

View PostIlgauskas, on 03 September 2010 - 19:14, said:

The article mentioned by OP is based on this piece of data by Netmarketshare which includes Android as well. So I hardly consider this a bias. It's just strange that we don't see linux zealots here who claimed that "2010 will be the year of the LINUX!!!!"

maybe after saying it for 15 yrs and being completely wrong they gave up. but i doubt it

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 04:03

There will never be a year of Linux. There, I said it.

As for iOS, I believe Mobile internet is the future and we are now seeing the first indications of that.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 05:45

View PostSubject Delta, on 03 September 2010 - 21:13, said:

I somehow doubt those figures, the massive amount of Android devices being activated does not tie in with such a ridiculously small marketshare.
it's browser usage, not installed base. And by "usage", it means that, it counts how much it's used to browse the web. Even if you browse the web with Android, do you use it to browse the web as much as desktops and notebooks? Say, everyday you browser 30 minutes on an Android device, but browse ten hours on a desktop, then desktop browser usage will be counted twenty times more than Android browser usage.

That's why mobile devices in general have an overall ridiculously small marketshare compared to desktops and notebooks. Even if you use your mobile phones to check emails and facebook at times, it's completely overshadowed by the hours of browsing on desktops and notebooks each day.

On the other hand, there may be a reason why iOS is used more in browsing than Android. Android phones are usually sold without unlimited data plans, while iPhone are usually sold with unlimited data plans. It's safe to say that most iPhone users have unlimited data plans, which means iPhone users are more likely to use it browsing the web. And iPad is almost purely for web browsing on the go. So I'm not surprised that iOS has such a high browser usage marketshare (for a mobile platform, that is)

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 07:15

View PostGrowled, on 04 September 2010 - 04:03, said:

There will never be a year of Linux. There, I said it.

As for iOS, I believe Mobile internet is the future and we are now seeing the first indications of that.
Pretty much. Just look at how well the iPad sells and how many people are using it instead of a netbook.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 07:38

View PostGrowled, on 04 September 2010 - 04:03, said:

There will never be a year of Linux. There, I said it.
Every year is a year of  GNU/ Linux.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 08:23

Just like how Firefox and Opera (and more recently Chrome) have eroded IE's dominance, mobile browsing is eating into desktop's slice of the pie. The headline looks dramatic, but it's not really surprising, to me at least.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:04

View PostSaltLife, on 03 September 2010 - 18:55, said:

What, they're comparing a mobil browsing platform to the linux desktop? How about they be fair and use Android in those figures as well... Because this is an extremely biased article.
yup, it's comparing a mobile platform to the linux desktop platform, which is indeed extremely biased... towards the linux desktop platform... since desktop platforms are known to have much more browser usage than mobile platforms in general. Heck, more than 97% of the total browser usage comes from desktop platforms...

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 14:08

It was bound to happen eventually....after all iphone/ipad is only getting more popular.