"Sorry Windows, Android Is the World's Most Popular OS"

Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 4/4/2017 3:06 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Sorry Windows, Android Is the World's Most Popular OS"
http://www.pcmag.com/news/352817/sor...ost-popular-os

I thought that this had already happened. Wow, look at that closure rate. That is a monumental change. I understand why Microsoft
is running so scared now.

Tis easy to skew results by lumping together invalid premises. Android
is NOT the most popular OS on desktop PCs. Windows is NOT the most
popular OS on mobile devices. Different markets. Would you lump the
sales of passenger tires with tractor tires which obviously get used of
different platforms? When you at work or home, do you really leave your
desktop PC sit idle while trying to do web browser, word processing, and
video editing on your toy computer (aka smartphone)?

Do you know what Statcounter is counting? They aren't measuring which
OS is on what platforms. They are measuring which OS is used by a
client connecting to a server and presume the client is not lying in its
User-Agent header.

"total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile
combined"

They are lumping together all platforms. Mobility gives users more
opportunity to connect than just when they are work or home. If you
were going to measure the volume of verbal noise in a room, would it be
louder in your home or at a party? The party might be at your home but
I doubt the party is non-stop and that is the normal state of occupancy
at your home. The stat is misleading. It is correct about the number
of *connects* by clients to server (but only at the servers that
participate in their measure). It gives no reflection of what OS is
most popular on each platform.

How many users do you know that have Android on their desktop PC? How
many users do you know that have Linux (other than Android) on their
phones? A server-side regarding what type of clients connect to them
does not indicate which OS is most popular on what hardware platform. I
certainly wouldn't bother participating in Usenet from a phone. Too
clutzy, too slow, and the available apps are nowhere as robust as
desktop clients. I even do most of my e-mail from desktops as the phone
apps are limp and most, maybe all, are far from RFC compliant. I have
Outlook at home on a desktop and an Outlook app on my smartphone. If I
can, I'll delay doing e-mail until I'm home or at work where I can use a
desktop with a robust e-mail client.

"Relax, Android Ascendance Was Inevitable"
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nce-inevitable

"Today, the Microsoft fan can take solace in this: Windows remains a more powerful and full-featured productivity environment for
those people who need to get real work done. The doers. The—I know—creators. And Android, while improving steadily, has a long way to
go. Will that change over time? Sure. But today is not that day."

Paul Thurrott both agrees and disagrees with you.

Lynn

Anytime I have to use my smartphone for any computing, I'm frustrated.
I only have an Intel Core Duo quad-core and 8GB of system RAM, SSD for
the OS and apps (HDDs for data) but I find it immensely more sastifying
to use than apps on a phone.

I'm not promoting Windows on desktops. I'm promoting desktops over
phones. I use various *NIX at work and if Microsoft doesn't correct
their misbehaviors with Windows 10 then I'll go with Mint at home. If I
wait long enough to do my next home PC build, maybe Fuchsia might be a
choice (see below). Yeah, phone hardware is now probably better than
using an old Osborne but desktops are pretty cheap these days,
especially considering how much the top-end smartphone toys cost - but
desktops aren't mobile. I carry a spare in my car but it's not what I
reply upon. Maybe if all I did was texting and e-mail and other
super-simple low-compute-intense jobs then smartphones would be okay.

You do know that Google is dropping their Android OS, right, and going
to a new one called Andromeda? So the OS charts will drop for Android
and rise for Andromeda. They'll overlap as Android wanes and as
Andromeda supplants the Android instances. There will a period of
several years for the transition. Looks like Andromeda will get renamed
to Fuchsia (I always mispell as "fuschia" even when describing the
color, so I had to correct it here, too). Maybe if I remember to
pronounce it as ****-see-ya then I'd remember the "s" goes in late.

https://www.recode.net/2016/10/3/131...chrome-android
http://bgr.com/2017/02/16/google-and...chsia-android/

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 17:38:56 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Anytime I have to use my smartphone for any computing, I'm frustrated.
I only have an Intel Core Duo quad-core and 8GB of system RAM, SSD for
the OS and apps (HDDs for data) but I find it immensely more sastifying
to use than apps on a phone.


My desktop is more powerful than yours, but I nevertheless agree with
you. I use my smart phone only if I'm not home.



I'm not promoting Windows on desktops. I'm promoting desktops over
phones.


Ditto!

On 4/6/2017 5:38 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
....
"Relax, Android Ascendance Was Inevitable"
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nce-inevitable

"Today, the Microsoft fan can take solace in this: Windows remains a more powerful and full-featured productivity environment for
those people who need to get real work done. The doers. The—I know—creators. And Android, while improving steadily, has a long way to
go. Will that change over time? Sure. But today is not that day."

Paul Thurrott both agrees and disagrees with you.

Lynn

Anytime I have to use my smartphone for any computing, I'm frustrated.
I only have an Intel Core Duo quad-core and 8GB of system RAM, SSD for
the OS and apps (HDDs for data) but I find it immensely more sastifying
to use than apps on a phone.

I'm not promoting Windows on desktops. I'm promoting desktops over
phones. I use various *NIX at work and if Microsoft doesn't correct
their misbehaviors with Windows 10 then I'll go with Mint at home. If I
wait long enough to do my next home PC build, maybe Fuchsia might be a
choice (see below). Yeah, phone hardware is now probably better than
using an old Osborne but desktops are pretty cheap these days,
especially considering how much the top-end smartphone toys cost - but
desktops aren't mobile. I carry a spare in my car but it's not what I
reply upon. Maybe if all I did was texting and e-mail and other
super-simple low-compute-intense jobs then smartphones would be okay.

You do know that Google is dropping their Android OS, right, and going
to a new one called Andromeda? So the OS charts will drop for Android
and rise for Andromeda. They'll overlap as Android wanes and as
Andromeda supplants the Android instances. There will a period of
several years for the transition. Looks like Andromeda will get renamed
to Fuchsia (I always mispell as "fuschia" even when describing the
color, so I had to correct it here, too). Maybe if I remember to
pronounce it as ****-see-ya then I'd remember the "s" goes in late.

https://www.recode.net/2016/10/3/131...chrome-android
http://bgr.com/2017/02/16/google-and...chsia-android/

Yes and yes. And it is dadgum hard to create just about anything on a
smartphone, including email replies of any consequence. But,
smartphones are great terminals to check on things while you are out and
about.

Lynn