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Net Applications: Apple just lost half its âmarket shareâ
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| The so-called market share reports issued every month by Net Applications
| have long been controversial â mostly because they didnât actually measure
| market share (which business people typically express as the number of
| widgets they sell in a given period divided by the total number of widgets
| sold).
|
| What Net Applications did instead was sample data from browsers visiting
| their clientsâ websites and report what percentage came from machines running
| Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.
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http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/02/net-applications-apple-just-lost-half-its-market-share/
Just having a lot of IP addresses means nothing; it is the distribution and the
population that counts and Net Applications keeps its data secret. It is
biased towards the part of the world where GNU/Linux adoption is very scarce,
the United States.
When will people finally wake up and realise that Net Applications has
Microsoft and Apple as customers [fact] and one of their key guys, Hopkins,
used to work for a company that Microsoft bought? Vested interests, no?
Recent:
1% Linux Market Share = 100% Dishonesty
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| Why do we wacky religious Linux zealot hippies get so mad? Just because the
| bulk of tech news reporting is so inaccurate and lazy? Why should anyone get
| upset at untrustworthy news reporting? (Don't make me insert sarcasm tags.)
| It doesn't much matter if they're slaves of Sauron or incompetent, because
| the results look the same. Cry me a river over the "death of journalism", if
| it can't be bothered to even try for honesty it deserves to die.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/05/1-linux-market.html
How many desktop Linux users?
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| Web site surveys are all well and good, but they only tell part of the story.
| And, as the numbers I cite above shows, Web site numbers show an enormous
| range. Some of that may represent bias. The Boycott Novell Web site, for
| example, recently proclaims that Net Applications' operating system numbers
| are a "Big Lie" and pointed out that Microsoft was one of Net Applications'
| biggest customers. My own site focuses a lot on Linux, so it's no surprise
| that I have a high percentage of Linux-using visitors.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_desktop_linux_users
Linux at 1 percent?! Ha! It's more like 45 percent
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| Looking into the future just a little, it's easy to see how the Linux desktop
| number will shift dramatically between now and 2011.
|
| Here are two reasons:
|
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| 1) Fast boot silicon.
|
| Â Â Many notebook vendors and motherboard makers in general, are now
| Â Â including fast boot options which typically are Linux operating systems
| Â Â with browser capabilities. These systems are not just netbooks but high
| Â Â end desktop boards as well.
|
| Â Â Certainly, I would expect that many of these fast boot machines will end
| Â Â up being dual boot machines, but they will increase desktop Linux
| Â Â penetration significantly. In fact if the fast boot silicon becomes a
| Â Â default feature (and it sure is looking that way), Linux quite literally
| Â Â will be embedded - not installed - on nearly every new computer system
| Â Â motherboard.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/linux-at-1-percent-ha-its-more.html#more
Linux Desktop Market Share: Greater Than One Percent?
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| Without NetApplications's raw data, its sources of bias are impossible to
| discover. However, I would guess that GNU/Linux users would be more likely to
| choose free software website applications than NetApplications's, or perhaps
| a free online service such as Google Analytics.
|
| In addition, NetApplications is an American company, and its website lists no
| overseas office. For these reasons, I would assume that its figures are drawn
| largely from the United States and perhaps Canada, and less so from the rest
| of the world.
|
| Given that the United States was only ranked ninth in open source activity in
| the Open Source Index recently published by Red Hat and Georgia Tech (and
| Canada twenty-eighth), such a bias would seriously question the general
| applicability of the NetApplications figures.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3818696/Linux-Desktop-Market-Share-Greater-Than-One-Percent.htm
Why is Net Applications (Hitslink) changing its browser stats after publishing
them?
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| I was curious to see how the uptake of Google's Chrome browser would be,
| considering that they were promoting it on their front page. I looked it up
| on a special page set up by Net Applications to track Chrome usage before I
| left for work. It seemed to do pretty well, as it climbed above 1%, passing
| Opera's alleged market share. Not really surprising considering the massive
| media coverage it was getting.
|
| When I got back later and reloaded the page, I noticed that it had gone down
| to 0.5% or so the last few hours. I still left the page open, and returned a
| little later. To my surprise, the page was no longer showing the same numbers
| for the same time. It's as if it had never shown 0.5%.
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http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2008/09/04/why-is-net-applications-hitslink-changing-its-browser-stats-after-publishing
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vizzav
Net Applications: "Our Partners/Clients include Microsoft, Apple, Amazon/Alexa,
Opera and ExactTarget. And, we're looking to grow that base as well as enhance
our contact and communications with our existing base."
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