Linux is one or 2 percent...
Ahem... All that Android traffic is Linux. So is just about all the traffic returning from the servers.
Although Linux might have started on a desktop, that is not where it has found a home.
Samsung devices are now the world’s dominant source of mobile internet traffic, after web-watching outfit StatCounter revealed that in June 2013 the Korean concern conquered Cupertino. In a report (PDF) styled to set up competition for browser share as an epic conflict, the researchers say “Samsung has seen its internet usage …
or, as what ive found, lots of standard users don't realise what browser they are actually using... so once chrome has been installed and setup as default the users just carry on regardless... as long as something shows their email and facebook the delivery mechanism is mildly irreverent.
Doubtful.
I've found your typical user doesn't have a strong opinion about what browser they are using. In fact, most of them can't name the browser when asked. They say "I opened Google" or "I opened MSM" or something like that. Sometimes I've even had trouble identifying which browser they are using when I ask if the started by clicking on the Blue 'E' or the orangish circle.
It's mostly us tech types who start flame wars over which browser is best.
In any race the lead changes once or twice, but lets look at the facts, there are many more Samsung phones out there than iOS ones so this news shouldn't be a surprise.
The figures and statistics mean nothing, you could just as easily say that per model of phone or operating system, though less people own an iphone or use iOS they consume an inordinate amount of data.
So 100,000 Samsung owners use more data than 50,000 Apple users, this isn't news.
Ooh, yeah, me too.
It's time to rethink what a PC can be and discover a new kind of computer. Introducing the Samsung Chromebook Series 5.
Deciding whether or not the Samsung Chromebook is right for you is actually really easy. The first thing you have to know is that it's cheap. Really cheap.
At a launch price of £229/USD$330/AU$319, it undercuts most conventional laptops, and is cheaper even than the new iPad mini.
FFS.
As it only looks at the built in browser, which of course works for iOS, as no other browser is allowed on iOS (except those that use Safari Webkit control, which guess what, reports itself as Safari).
On Android, you can use other browsers, many people do, so the Android numbers only count the stock browser, and nothing more.
People try to be "cool" by shunning established brands ("IE? thats sooooo 1990's, I use [pick one]").
It's a right pile 'o shite!
IE works fine for me.
Yes for reg readers, you need other tools, but for your mother/brother/sister etc.. day to day posting of cats vids and fakebook updates, IE is fine.
In fact when I have tried firefox or other browsers, they cause more problems than they are worth.
With IE you know what you are getting and it does what you need it to do.
What's more, when I drag a tab away from a chrome window, I get a little copy and have to guess how to place it, IE shows the full window and places better. I also found it easy to make the search/address box very small and share it with the tabs space so I get more real estate without using F11, Could not do it on Chrome so it is not intuitive (or even possible for all I know).
All this IE bashing is pathetic, my IE10 on my Nokia 920 beat a Note II in the sunspider benchmark, much to the annoyance of the owner who ran it several more times and used different browsers desperately trying to beat it. It may have been a close run thing but they just couldn't accept it ("But mine is the best!, it's a Samsung, I've got more Ghz and more RAM, mine is bigger").
Indeed. The problem with this comparison is that neither the iPad nor the iPad mini are included in Statcounter's graph. if you instead look at Statcounter's Operating system comparison instead which counts all devices, you find that iOS has a share 3x greater with 4.16% versus Android on 1.39%.
After all, if you are going to compare operating systems, then you need to compare all devices that make up those operating systems. This is particularly true in mobile devices where so many Android devices are large screen phablets or mini-tablets themselves. How can Statcounter count 5" and 6" Android Phablets, but not the 7" iPad mini?
Very biased stats.
"But neither of Redmond’s unloved operating systems is generating as much traffic as MacOS, which generated 7.43% of the world’s internet traffic over the last year."
So Windows 8 has managed to build an installed userbase close to all Macs, in just 8 months, and yet this is spun as "bad news"?
Or alternatively, when you count every version of Windows separately, but count all the different versions of MacOS as one version, MacOS does better, only in some cases? Well, I'm shocked. I guess there are plenty of Android phones that don't sell as well as "the iphone", if I count every iphone as one device. And I guess Apple have the best selling computer if I compare every individual PC to the collective sales of "the Mac"...
Perhaps one could have higher expectations for the OS that as a whole has 91% share, but this isn't what people said - "it'll be a fail, everyone will use Macs or Ipads" is what we heard. Interesting to see the goalposts moving - no longer "it'll be a fail" but "it hasn't outsold every Mac in existence, yet".
Chrome is doing great as a browser, but it was Chromebooks that have yet to make any entry on the pie chart... (which I think is a shame personally, before Chromebook lovers mod me down - but it seems bad news more for Google than Windows 8, as far as new platforms go).
I think the most important information is that the figures we often hear have an incredible US bias. This was also evident in the Akamai stats until they tapped into their global data
Looking a mobile browsers and IE isn't in the top 10. It does a little better if you look at all browsers which indicates a fair number of laptops with dongles or built in 3G.
Trouble is, Statcounter has a significant bias in the opposite direction:
With 7 of the top 10 Statcounter countries by device numbers being developing nations, the stats are severely skewed towards the huge number of cheap Android devices in those countries:
From Statcounter's FAQ:
"In June 2013, our global sample for mobile devices consisted of over 2.6 billion page views. The ten countries with the largest individual sample sizes are listed below:
672 million - India
560 million - United States
125 million - Turkey
120 million - Indonesia
102 million - United Kingdom
62 million - Canada
54 million - Thailand
53 million - South Korea
46 million - Brazil
45 million - Malaysia"