“In order to more accurately describe usage share for Apple devices, the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are now being grouped under their common operating system ‘iOS,'” NetApplications reports.
“Each of these devices can still be tracked separately using the Operating System Versions report,” NetApplications reports. “When these devices are combined, they have over 1% of global browsing share, which is now higher than Linux.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Boom!
(Our condolences, Linux-on-the-desktop eternal pipe-dreamers.)
Linux is fantastic for server applications, but on the desktop there is just too much ‘it works… kinda’ to be of daily use.
That said, the open source development of it has led to a lot of good ideas showing up elsewhere, so more power to ’em.
Snappy!
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I’d like to see how iOS stacks up against Android.
Android total looks like 0.17%
Ooops. That was January. Androids are up to 0.20% in August.
But what this measures is just browser usage. It doesn’t account for web connected apps which provide an even better idea of how these devices are actually interacting with the net.
Isn’t Android based on Linux?!?
A year from now, I would like to know how OS X server running the BILLION DOLLAR NC SERVER FARM stack up against a Linux server farm in overall performance.
The way Linux users rant and rave online, you would think that there are a lot more of them.
I have installed Ububtu for quite a few Winblows users. The ones that only email, facebook and what not. Good security and it come out of the “box” with all they need. It’s not OSX, but not everyone I know can buy a new $1000.00 computer.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m Mac since before Mac, AppleII. Just saying it is better than windows. Unless you are a gamer…..
Linux is a great screwing around OS as there are so many different versions. One can even make Linux look like OS X or Windows for those who have a hard time keeping their machines secure and can’t learn another OS UI.
Linux is a permission based OS like Unix/OS X, so it doesn’t get viruses. More eyeballs look at Linux since it’s Open Source and the bugs get fixed faster.
One can install Linux on a USB key and do all sorts of things with a hosed Windows box. Set a new password, run anti-malware clamav, transfer files and generally look like a hero to their Windows friends. Anti-malare software is best run from another OS anyway.
Linux has a low market share, “security through obscurity” helps a lot to keep it safe. it makes a great $300 netbook OS for traveling purposes and unknown networks, Flash, Firefox with add-ons/persona’s, OpenOffice work just fine on Ubuntu. Clamtk (anti-virus) and Firestarter (GUI firewall) and lots of other software games, music and picture management software all are free.
Yes there isn’t nearly the level of quality of software like what Apple produces, iTunes is dynamite!, but neither is the huge hardware cost, nor is there the headaches like there is with Windows (after you get it installed of course, hehe) Desktop Linux like Ubuntu is rather easy to use and install, any GUI savvy OS X user can do it. I would use a spare PC, not your precious Mac for first timers.
There is this geek right of passage thing if your able to install Linux on a PC. Windows users share the same problems, so they look at each other equally. Windows users look down on Apple users as OS X and especially iOS is so simplified , but everyone respects a Linux user.
A Linux user that also uses OS X and Windows? A alpha geek.
“Isn’t Android based on Linux?!?
Yes it is, and according to some, as the variety of phone devices running Android increase, and their lower price compared to a iPhone and their market share increases, it’s supposed to surpass iOS.
On the other hand, Apple is throwing iOS on everything it can, even looks like Mac’s will get it according to patent applications, so that could delay the takeover.
By the way I’m a lifelong Mac user that is now exploring his options since Apple seems to be determined to put iOS on everything.
Really where’s the intellectual challenge with a computer that acts like a simplified appliance anyway? Sure some need that, but people also need a challenge to develop critical thinking skills too.
I thought Androidwas based on a JAVA variant
New Linux Guy,
Operating a computer is not a goal in itself. It is means to get something else done. Requiring a ‘technical challenge’ to operate a computer is no different than requiring a technical challenge to operate a microwave oven or a vacuum cleaner. There is absolutely no need to make it challenging to operate a computer. The less challenging the task is, the more energy, time and creativity we can spare for the actual task we need to do on it.
There will surely be no technical limits what a Mac with iOS can do. I have no doubt, file system access of some kind (along with the printing functionality, which has been announced an hour ago, for iOS4.2) will be coming soon to iOS, likely in time for move to more serious hardware.
Just like ANY device that is supposed to perform a function, the primary goal of its designer is to build the device so that it is easy to use. The best way to do it is to make sure its user interface does NOT present an intellectual challenge. This is precisely where Apple shines, and this has been consistently showing in all of their efforts so far, from Mac OS, to original iPod OS, to AppleTV, as well as iOS.
There’s a huge flaw in using conventional metrics when it comes to iOS:
iOS represents mobile devices which may be used heavily in new ways that conventional metrics don’t account for.
When you think of a desktop or notebook OS and the acquisition of content over the internet, it’s reasonable to assume that content publishers who are primarily web-based for their online content will have their content primarily consumed via web browsers such as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, IE or Opera.
Conventional metrics such as those employed by NetApplications and Google Analytics do a fair job of measuring and reporting the consumption based on browser and OS in this model.
However, when it comes to iOS, the acquisition and consumption of content over the net isn’t necessarily done over the mobile Safari browser. You have a lot content coming from podcasts and various apps.
While the apps in iOS use webkit and thus identify to the server that it’s iOS, the mechanism for tracking these hits aren’t necessarily functional in this regard. For example, if I’m counting tracking code embeds, ads, or other mechanisms for pinging a server that exists on a web page, I may not be counting hits coming from content delivered through RSS or customized formats for iOS.
On the other hand, I may be counting RSS hits as visits when the user never actually consumed any content.
This calls into play what actually constitutes a visit and whether page views are fully representative of the consumption of content.
Case in point:
I manage several websites that offer audio and video content, as well as PDFs. Altogether there are thousands of rich media files. When I count who is getting the media files, I see that iOS is about 3% of all our traffic. This is still an under count since it doesn’t include sideloading through iTunes. When I count actual page views, the number is much lower. If I count RSS feed hits, the number is much higher. By “number” I’ve referring to the share of traffic.
In other words, with iOS there is a relatively higher share of consumption of rich media files as compared to page views and even a higher share of RSS feed hits. Conventional metrics looks at page views and under counts the impact of iOS.
@ New Linux Guy: “but everyone respects a Linux user.”
I’d respect you more if you said you were a BSD user. At the very least, it would mean you actually did some homework when looking for a new OS to use and not just jump to the “hot” open source system.
BSOD … you’d think so, wouldn’t you!
And you’d be wrong!
Now, if you looked at “tech-savvy users” rather than “market share”, you’d get a different picture. The vast majority of Linux users are in the top few percentage points of being tech savvy. Significantly higher than the percentage for Mac users and close to (better? worse”) than that for Windows Admins. There may be more than twenty Windows users for every Linux user, but even the Admins often don’t rate up there with Linux users.
So … yeah, there are more knowledgable Linux users out there than there are knowledgable Windows users. Which is why you see so many of them.
On the other of this equation.
Web server market share (via Netcraft):
M$ IIS – 25%
Apache – 56%
Microsoft’s ‘payola for using its server’ program from 2006 is officially over and their share is back to roughly the same level it’s been since 1997. Outside of the two times they bought share (’01 & ’06), that is.