Oh dear, Linux drops below 1% market share again

18 years on, it's still in the margin of error. <sigh>

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

 

Ms Penguin says her cousins are on alot of desktops and they are fishing
away just fine on routers, NAS, media players and etc.

Once again, how the hell does anyone know on how many desktops GNU/Linux is
on? I mean is it a question in the censeus?

Finally does it matter what OS one has, for it is a matter of personal
choice.

 

Cousies and all, Ms Penguin appears to have a very small family

Ms Penguin should teach her offspring how to Google information. Perhaps
then some of the inbred lack of perspective that nhandicaps that family
would recede.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/

"About Our Market Share Statistics ...

"We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from
the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live
stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million
visitors per month. The information published is an aggregate of the data
from this network of hosted website statistics. The site unique visitor and
referral information is summarized on a monthly, weekly, daily and hourly
basis.

"In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search
engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and
reported on. The statistics for search engines include both organic and
sponsored referrals. The websites in our population represent almost all
countries on earth."

The sum of personal choice = market share. Deal with it.

 

About Us:
Since 1999, Net Applications has been a leading source of applications
for webmasters and *eMarketers.* Headquartered in Aliso Viejo,
California, Net Applications distributes its services through over 8,000
partners and affiliates. These services may also be found at Hitslink,
Market Share, SurveyWare, SearchTerms.

We only collect data that agrees with our customers opinions.

We only collect data from site visitors who use browsers allowed on our
network.

We use *accurate* page hit counters. We REALLY do...

We massage the figures to match the figures our customers want to hear

We constantly check the data to remove the anomalies that would
negatively affect our [customers] profit margins.

Our dedicated staff collect page hit counter figures from all over the
world.

Couldn't resist.

They spout a lout of *big words* to simply say they sell statistics to
online marketeers and advertisers.

Hardly an impartial source to make claims about OS share are they.

 

You have an issue with any of that? Or are you just trying to fill space?

Hmmm...This is the site that every freetard in the world was championing
just last month when they reported that nix had picked up 1% share for the
first time ever. Was their methodology wrong then?

Why would you just lie like that?! They restrict no browsers. And indeed
they count traffic from cewll phones and other appliances, which surely is
to the benefit of Linux.

Is 160 million too few for you? Or too many?

And your preferred method of counting traffic is what exactly?

Again ...This is the site that every freetard in the world was championing
just last month when they reported that nix had picked up 1% share for the
first time ever. Was their methodology wrong then?

You're an idiot. And you couldn't resist demonstrating that?

The operating system and browser share stats they provide are absolutely
free.

But yes, they sell other data on request. Plenty of businesses are
interested in getting accurate market share statistics. Nothing wrong with
that. If the words they use to describe their methodology are too big for
you, that's your problem.

Actually, they'd have a strong business interest in being **completely**
impartial. What does it matter to them what os someone uses? Their clients
simply want to know where to invest their development resources, advertsiing
dollars, or whatever. When Linux first hit 1%, MarketShare featured the news
on their home page for several weeks. Currently, they still feature that
story along with others about Windows and Android and iPhones.

 

The "Linux" figure quoted is probably only Linux running on personal
computers. The stats have a separate entry for Android (0.08%).

Other devices are rarely used as general purpose web browsers, so this
0.99% figure doesn't count servers or embedded devices (including
routers) which are running Linux, only those which are being used to
actively surf web sites.

The figures also don't count Windows and Macs which are being used as
servers or for other special purposes.

Assuming their methodology is accurate and is not fooled by multiple
computers hiding behind NAT routers, this suggests that about 1% of
people in the world with Internet access are actively using Linux as
their personal computer platform for doing tasks such as web browsing.

 

0.99% actually. But better luck next month.

 

Pssst. It's the 21st century. All aboard!!!

 

No, it means 1% of their sample was identified as using Linux.
Different samples might give different results, such as
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
which shows 4% Linux and rising.

 

I said "about". You really are impossible.

Quoting the figures to that degree of accuracy is meaningless if you are
considering the entire market of web browsing computer users, rather
than just the surveyed web sites. There will be a margin of error, and
I'm sure it is more than 1 in 10,000.

It is the longer term trends for all operating systems which are more
interesting.

Since last July:

Windows has dropped about 3%, with almost every month showing a small
fall in share.

Mac has gained about 2%, with most months last year showing a gain,
peaking in January, then dipped a little and relatively level since
then.

Linux has gained about 0.1% with a fair amount of month to month
variation.

iPhone has gained about 0.4%, with every month better than or equal to
the last.

iPod Touch has gained about 0.1%, most in a couple of spurts with level
share at other times.

Android, Java ME and Symbian have all gone from nothing to about 0.08%
since December (I suspect some of these weren't being recognised
earlier.)

Windows Mobile has been flat or dipped slightly, now at 0.05%.

It is amazing that a mobile platform (iPod + iPod Touch) is rapidly
approaching the web market share of a desktop platform (Linux). If you
add in all the mobile platforms, they beat desktop Linux.

Whatever that might mean.

 

Drops depending on if you take numbers from different sources?

I went back for a year (0.92) quarter (0.98), month(0.98), and week
(0.99), so bythat page the trend is actually up....

Better luck next time troll..........

regards

Thing

 

Exactly....the more interesting statistic is server space....and even
that's only of passing interest.......

or maybe webservers...........

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/05/27/may_2009_web_server_survey.html

Its really a non-event....

but its Ok impossible can be happy knowing as a desktop jockey his job
is safe....

regards

Thing

 

Exactly. So when all the world's freetards celebrated Linux breaking the 1%
barrier, they were just being silly. Right?

Yes -- Windows is down, Mac is up, Linux is flat. This is consistent with
other numbers reported by Net Applications.

Nothing surprising about that.

 

Ignorance about sampling and statistics seems to be one of your defining
attributes.

w3schools does not sample in the way that Market Share or Net Applications
does -- it simply reports hits on its own site as recorded in its log files.
So 4% of w3school's customers use Linux -- Wow!

 

Ah, yes...the old thing-thingy-thing2 shuffle. More disappointing news for
freedtards on the desktop frontr, so....please, please...can't we just talk
about servers.

Yes, Apache once had a huge lead on Microsoft at major sites -- something
like 70% to 20% as recently as 2006. But in terms of active sites, that lead
is now just 46% to 28% now. What happened?

He, he. Looking up from your little admin cubicle, I can see how the success
of others could make you bitter.

 

It's amzing to me just how much inspiration you can take from little blips
like that.

97.56% of users run Windows or OsX, and here you are debating whether the
Linux share is 0.0092 or 0.0099. Heck, let's say the estimate is widely off
and the true market share of Linux is 0.019, which is about what Nety
Applications says. 18 years on, it's still in the margin of error.

OsX is cutting into the Windows lead on the desktop. Linux is simply
irrelevant.

 

What went wrong with Linux?

It is arguably the biggest flop of the decade.
An OS that promised so much and delivered so little.

-ws

 

... and those browsers that aren't set to lie (so that some of the "broken"
web sites will work) of course. That used to be very common.

"Market share" data is usually collected using "sales" of course ... a real
laugh to anyone that uses *nixes of any sort
As you suggest, I've yet to see any market share data that is convincing in
any way.

 

Ignorance of business and statistics is a terrific combination. I bet you're
a big hit in yourt nix user group.