• Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 天前

    TIL there’s a new operating system that came out less than a year ago but already captured 5% of the market, passing ChromeOS and Linux

    This stat is rubbish because they’re basing it on web views, and the millions of ai scraping bots are influencing it

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      20·
      3 天前

      As we know,
      There are known knowns.
      There are things we know we know.
      We also know
      There are known unknowns
      That is to say
      We know there are some things
      We do not know.
      But there are also unknown unknowns,
      The ones we don’t know
      We don’t know.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      54·
      3 天前

      If they’re basing this off browser user agents like a third of my traffic at least is random Chinese ips and requests with Chinese language in the headers.

      All of them would be flagged as unknown by the major user agent parsing libraries.

      None of the sure I work with have any Chinese content or content remotely useful for Chinese people, so it’s scrapers.

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
        37·
        3 天前

        From the FAQ:

        Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. These sites cover various activities and geographic locations. Every month, we record billions of page views to these sites. For each page view, we analyse the browser/operating system/screen resolution used and we establish if the page view is from a mobile device.

        So yeah, they’re basing of browser user agents.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      I think it’s pretty clear from this graph that the macOS is eating their lunch, and to a lesser extent, Linux.

  • klay1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 天前

    A couple of peaks of unknown seem to match very nicely with the windows graph, if you invert it. I think the two big windows crashes we see are measuring differences or re-categorization effects. … or how about brand new or discontinued versions of windows, that were not counted as windows yet?

  • thatradomguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 天前

    The unknown is actually a niche OS they put on all the smart dildo and sex toys they make now. True story. ✌️

  • DelnitaCrane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 天前

    Everything going down or steady except “Unknown”

    I don’t care who wins, I care that Windows loses

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      Unknown could be anything.

      Thats not a bad thing.

      I’m a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.

      Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in “other”. So that peak is probably “windows but we messed up with data collection” or “some browser in windows changed its user agent”.

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 天前

      That’s what I want to know too! Did Windows blip out of existence in the UK for a month or something?

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    8·
    2 天前

    OS X

    I don’t use Apple devices and didn’t realize that they didn’t all use the same operating system (OS X vs IOS). Shame on me, I guess.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      11·
      2 天前

      It’s not even called OS X anymore, now it’s called macOS.

      iOS is actually based on macOS, although it’s slimmed down a lot. iOS has been further split into iOS and iPadOS, although they’re pretty much the same thing. It’s just a marketing move.