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gotta love the adoption rate being percentage and not numbers. osx would show as a flat line...

by gcb0 11y ago

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freehunter 11y ago
Using numbers for adoption rate would make no sense at all. There would be no context for it. The comparison is how many installs are on the latest version. It would have to be X number out of Y number of installs in order to find out how many installs are running the same version. And then if you're doing X out of Y, you might as well normalize Y to 100, then you get a percent. If you're looking to see how many of your users are on the latest version, percent is the only thing that makes any sense.
- buster 11y ago
  I think the point is, if Apple (or Google or whoever) would be the clear market leader, they'd probably show total count and be like "whoa, look, our last OS was the fastest growing from since beginning of time!!!!" (showing X units sold/year instead of percentage/months). And all fanboys would go "woohhooo, AppGooSoft is so awesome, everybody buys it!".
  - freehunter 11y ago
    And that would be true in that case, but why would anyone take time from a keynote to highlight a metric they're not good at? What Apple is doing right is getting the majority of their devices upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible. They're doing better than Google in that regard. Meanwhile during Google's keynote, they would say how many Android devices are shipping compared to iOS devices, and say nothing about how quickly people are upgrading. Toyota is showing off their Prius and say that it gets 100mpg. You're sitting in the back saying "yeah but the Vayron goes 200mph, why don't you show off how fast your car goes?" Everyone is good at something and not good at everything. The actual point the parent was trying to make is that Apple sux and Google rox, which is massively off topic.
- gcb0 11y ago
  you develop for people. not percentages. the numbers means everything. If 100% of mac users are on the latest version but that accounts for 1million users, and windows is split between 7 and 8. and heck, even XP... but the lowest is already 5 billion, then it is a no brainer that supporting one or two versions of windows makes more sense.

gotta love the adoption rate being percentage and not numbers. osx would show as a flat line...

by gcb0 11y ago

gotta love the adoption rate being percentage and not numbers. osx would show as a flat line...

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freehunter 11y ago

Using numbers for adoption rate would make no sense at all. There would be no context for it. The comparison is how many installs are on the latest version. It would have to be X number out of Y number of installs in order to find out how many installs are running the same version. And then if you're doing X out of Y, you might as well normalize Y to 100, then you get a percent. If you're looking to see how many of your users are on the latest version, percent is the only thing that makes any sense.

buster 11y ago
I think the point is, if Apple (or Google or whoever) would be the clear market leader, they'd probably show total count and be like "whoa, look, our last OS was the fastest growing from since beginning of time!!!!" (showing X units sold/year instead of percentage/months). And all fanboys would go "woohhooo, AppGooSoft is so awesome, everybody buys it!".
- freehunter 11y ago
  And that would be true in that case, but why would anyone take time from a keynote to highlight a metric they're not good at? What Apple is doing right is getting the majority of their devices upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible. They're doing better than Google in that regard. Meanwhile during Google's keynote, they would say how many Android devices are shipping compared to iOS devices, and say nothing about how quickly people are upgrading. Toyota is showing off their Prius and say that it gets 100mpg. You're sitting in the back saying "yeah but the Vayron goes 200mph, why don't you show off how fast your car goes?" Everyone is good at something and not good at everything. The actual point the parent was trying to make is that Apple sux and Google rox, which is massively off topic.
gcb0 11y ago
you develop for people. not percentages. the numbers means everything. If 100% of mac users are on the latest version but that accounts for 1million users, and windows is split between 7 and 8. and heck, even XP... but the lowest is already 5 billion, then it is a no brainer that supporting one or two versions of windows makes more sense.