Not when the rest of the market has remained more or less static (84% through the entire graph). It does raise some questions, especially since the Macs themselves are selling quite nicely. But for some reason, they're either being abandoned, or they're not using Mac OS.
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iOS Surpasses OS X in Share of U.S. Web Traffic
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This is a stunning victory... for Safari AdBlocker extensions 
(Seriously though, Mac browsing is obviously on the rise along with increased Mac sales; however, that doesn’t mean Mac’s share of the browsing has to be rising, if other platforms are growing even faster. If that’s not the answer, then the data is suspect to me.)
(Seriously though, Mac browsing is obviously on the rise along with increased Mac sales; however, that doesn’t mean Mac’s share of the browsing has to be rising, if other platforms are growing even faster. If that’s not the answer, then the data is suspect to me.)
Looking forward to the day when my iPhone becomes my iMac. I will just plug a 27" ACD to my iPhone with a thunderbolt cable, add bluetooth mouse and keyboard...."BOOM!"
Maybe people buy computers to do real work that doesn't include surfing to websites with ads. If they have an iOS device as well then it is the one they do the sort of casual surfing that would hit sites to be included in the measure.
I find this quite sad, I know it's the future and that Apple's main priority now is iOS, but I've always looked at Apple as a computer company. I think iPhones, iPods & iPads are simple amazing but I find it annoying that more people are surfing the web on iPhones than they are on Mac's now.
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LTD has it spot on again.
The winds of change are upon us.
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LTD has it spot on again.
The winds of change are upon us.
That's not what I was saying. I was saying that for some people, their iOS devices outnumber their Macs.
Not sure why there are so many excuses for OS X. We need one more piece of information before figuring out if the sky is falling or not... If Windows' share of total net traffic has dropped by a similar amount, OS X is fine. If not, in spite of growing sales, people aren't using their Macs. That would be strange.
Does make me want to see a graph of traditional PCs (Mac, Win, Linux, C=64, whatever) vs. mobile devices.
Does make me want to see a graph of traditional PCs (Mac, Win, Linux, C=64
, whatever) vs. mobile devices.Obviously you're not even CLOSE to being NEAR a full computer user.
I'm guessing your usage more compares to the cliche mother/grandmother's usage.
Meaning games & internet (web-browsing, email & dedicated native webapp[Facebook-like]).
SINCE:
Obviously you don't work with any high-end media editors (which iOS's thin-clients pale in comparison to).
Obviously you don't even manipulate many saved files, since iOS forbids the user from having access to the on-device file-system.
Obviously you don't do any development (something iOS is incapable of, and as long as it's EXPLICITLY forbidden in the iOS developer TOS, will NEVER do).
Doubly obvious OSX won't disappear since iOS apps can ONLY be developed on APPLE hardware. So if OSX were to disappear, then so would EVERY SINGLE iOS developer, their apps, and your precious iOS would follow closely behind.
Mind you, there's nothing wrong with only needing a thin-client device like a cell-phone or a tablet, but if you think they will EVER replace full computers, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Obviously.
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Not in the next couple of years, perhaps, maybe even 5-10 years, but who's to say about "EVER"? Remember that when computers first came around, they were as big as a room and nobody figured that they would "ever" be in people's houses. Now we carry them around in our pockets.
I love my Mac, I love my iPad, and I love my iPhone. But if I'm going to browse the web, I'm going to use the Mac.
It certainly does make sense.
Given that iOS is the dominant mobile OS worldwide, it's fairly obvious that a sizeable chunk of users will be Windows users as well. It's similar to the situation with iTunes penetration, I think.
4000 means a page every 15 seconds for 24 hours straight. I don't think that's realistic.
You're over-estimating, probably a couple hundred pages at most per day?
If so, I hope Apple releases a proper docking station.
iOS is not a leaner OS, it's only an overly restricted graphical interface to the iTunes store. If you want to do anything with an iPad, you have to use your credit card. We've seen the rise and fall of this business model before in the 1960s on IBM mainframes. Apple is trying to turn back the wheel of time and repeat history. The only question is how long it will take for the average iCattle to wake up and refuse to be milked.
Let's face it: OS X was never a really important computing platform, it's always been a niche market, for many obvious reasons: Too expensive, too closed, no third party hardware vendors, no penetration in the enterprise/corporate sector. And the average Mac user has usually been a non-technical person with non-technical needs, so it doesn't surprise me that this target audience now moves on to something dumbed-down like the iPad and misses nothing.
The last time figures were released, Android was the dominant mobile OS worldwide, not iOS. And with Amazon now also being a player in the Android segment, those figures are going to change even more drastically in the favor of Android. In the end, open platforms always win over walled gardens.
Unfortunately, the other poster will be right. For most home users, iPads and other slates/tablets will quickly be powerful enough to be full computer replacements for THOSE users. In the end, Apple will only be selling real computers to registered developers and the rest will be buying iPads or next genereation MacBook Airs with iOS on them. That is very clearly where Apple WANTS to be. Millions of dumb terminals and credit card accounts that are locked into their content iCloud. The generation mainframe business model - with huge data centers instead of mainframes at the core and all terminals are connected over the Internet to it. Millions of micro transactions per minute, all pumping money into Apple's bank accounts.
It's a great business concept for Apple - until the bubble collapses and people no longer want to be locked in.
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It could be a natural side effect of having iDevices. For example, before I got an iPhone or iPad, I did 100% of my web surfing from my MacBook Pro. Now that I have an iPhone, I sit on the couch or lie in my bed and do some surfing from there. Maybe 20% of the time? According to the stats, that would show up as a 20% decrease in web traffic coming from OS X.
Well, I don't... I don't like extensions... Somehow clicking yes to give permissions for an extension that could do who knows what? My brain has higher functions which permit me to just ignore ads.
Plus NOT having an ad blocker permits MR to make some revenues off of me.
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No, thats based on the browsers own statistics. 4000 is tops, which doesn't mean its the norm, just that it does happen on rare days in certain occasions.
Do keep in mind that navigating through pages will count for each page.
For example loading page A, then subpage B 1-2 seconds later, then subpage C another 1-2 seconds later will be 3 pages in about 6 seconds. Easy to pull off with basic reading comprehension, mouse control, familiarity with page layouts, and a proper internet connection.
It did. Its the 'Other 84%' that remained perfectly static throughout the entire graph. Thats kind of what highlights a problem. If Apple's devices are beating the market average - their share should increase. But its failed to grow at all. iOS has increased, but it has come effectively purely at the cost of Mac OS.
Wrong.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13767311/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050211-apple-ios-share.html
http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/03/ios-and-mac-os-x-market-shares-hit-record-highs/
Don't forget, iOS is on iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Anything that runs iOS. Worldwide. iOS has overall global market share (for all devices) over Android.
Android is next to nowhere outside the smartphone space.
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This is why these kind of surveys are meaningless.
It should be:
"iOS Surpasses OS X (without adblock) in Share of U.S. Web Traffic"
If you ignore all the free stuff and open standards support.
If you ignore that OS X is continuing to grow along with iOS.
If you only consider "dominant" to mean "smartphone market share". And you assume that Amazon growth will come at the expense of Apple instead of Android.
Why is this repeated so much when it can be refuted with one word?
iPod.
If you ignore that all those micro transactions are negligible to Apple's bottom line.
Because it's so much better to be locked in to Amazon or anyone other than Apple.