Most popular mobile operating systems

No surprise there. Android and iOS are expensive, and Blackberry and Nokia can be very affordable.
 
October 2013 seems to be a very odd month. If it is omitted, the graphs make a lot more sense. In that case S40 would rise steadily (bottom of the market upgrading from dum phones to feature?), BB decrease evenly (as per VC stats), Android downs slightly (OK, that does not make sense), iOS level.
 
Blackberry is like Windows XP. Still tons of people using it, and this ancient system doesn't seem to die. :p
 
So basically people swapped Blackberry for Symbian? :wtf:
 
Simply reproducing data without analysing it or querying suspect data is what News24 does.

I would have expected MyBB to at least comment on the anomalies.
 
Allin said:
Simply reproducing data without analysing it or querying suspect data is what News24 does.

I would have expected MyBB to at least comment on the anomalies.
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Simply regurgitating what other news sites are reporting, or what industry personalities are saying, is what MyBB does.

On the odd occasion an article would be the proverbial "diamond in the rough", but mostly it's just "the rough".
 
Always interesting to read this sort of article. Not for what it says, but for what it doesn't say.

Other than geeks and their isotopes, the overwhelming majority of cellphone users couldn't give a fig about what OS their phone runs. It's as irrelevant to them as the OS on your smartoven.

They are neither "sold" nor "chosen" any more than people choose the FAT file system for their memory cards.

Before the FAT file system finally disappears, I hope to see just one tech journo recognise this obvious fact before providing yet more fodder for the fanbois.
 
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Allin said:
Simply reproducing data without analysing it or querying suspect data is what News24 does.

I would have expected MyBB to at least comment on the anomalies.
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MyBB seems to struggle with providing critical insight on any statistics based article they publish, which is a shame since they publish a hell of a lot of them. Even with the previous Ookla related article presenting it as an average price of R300/Mbit for uncapped. You live in South Africa guys, you know the local conditions and prices! You can see when something looks weird and needs to have context added so it doesn't look like nonsense and explains the full picture.

I went to the original website for this:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ZA-monthly-201012-201312

and I'm really struggling to come up with a narrative that explains those numbers in terms of sales vs problems with their tracking that corrected at various times and then cause huge swings in the graph. BlackBerry was not 4% of mobile OS share in 2012, but then I can't tell how much of this is "percentage of people using their phone to browse the internet" vs "percentage of people with phone brand x" vs some other tracking issue.

Android there was 5% in January 2012, 22% in December 2012, and has dropped to 17% in December 2013. Does that reflect reality or what the carriers are seeing? Did Android peak at the end of last year? What's replacing it now?
 
Arthur said:
Other than geeks and their isotopes, the overwhelming majority of cellphone users couldn't give a fig about what OS their phone runs. It's as irrelevant to them as the OS on your smartoven.

They are neither "sold" nor "chosen" any more than people choose the FAT file system for their memory cards.
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To an extent, but with smart phones people are increasingly forced to consider which corporation they distrust less to look after their personal information. You have to at least choose an "ecosystem" for your digital life. (Hopefully the next big technology disruption will allow us to break out of either an Apple or Google world only.
 
A few issues with these types of stats:
1. How do they classify SA traffic (SA visitors worldwide or only SA sites?, personally I suspect the latter.)
2. Is the information based on unique visitors or page loads? For example: if this was based on only 300 unique visitors / devices, you naturally would choose to ignore it.
3. If we are to assume this is based on SA sites, then how many of SA sites actually employ statscounter?
4. ...

I could go on, but as others have said this type of report is completely meaningless without more supporting information, something which the statscounter website does not seem to make available.

It's really a pity Mybb doesn't take more time to research these articles.
 
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Shame, the poor suckers that insist on using a Blackberry. They do not know that there are much better options out there. I sympathise for them.
 
surfs-up said:
Shame, the poor suckers that insist on using a Blackberry. They do not know that there are much better options out there. I sympathise for them.
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I find it a bit irritating that service providers like Cell C and VC still seem to push Blackberry as the first choice given to customers.
Cell C offered me one over the phone, VC still has an older BB on the front page of their calatologue.
 
markings said:
I find it a bit irritating that service providers like Cell C and VC still seem to push Blackberry as the first choice given to customers.
Cell C offered me one over the phone, VC still has an older BB on the front page of their calatologue.
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The carriers push whatever makes the most profit for them. That is why VC never has the iPhone on display.
 
Skerminkel said:
To an extent, but with smart phones people are increasingly forced to consider which corporation they distrust less to look after their personal information. You have to at least choose an "ecosystem" for your digital life. (Hopefully the next big technology disruption will allow us to break out of either an Apple or Google world only.
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I agree, but I think most people don't realise this, and are sucked into whichever ecosystem is pushed by the sales person.
 
Seeing as these stats are based on websites installing a tracking code, there's little credibility without stating the sample size and the top sites visited. In much the same way that people extrapolate w3schools stats to the general populace.
 
[)roi(];11879117 said:
It's really a pity Mybb doesn't take more time to research these articles.
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To be fair to MyBB: I would rather them give us the info without detail analysis than not at all. I am sure rpm and friends would love too, but it obviously costs money to investigate a story.
You give your criticism civilised enough, but some of the flaming they receive in the forums are quite undeserved.
 
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