Posted on 04/05/2014 1:15:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Earlier this morning we posted a report titled "Apple's iPhone is King of Manhattan as Shown in Stunning Map." In that report we covered Business Insider's viewpoint that the iPhone's success in Manhattan proved the great divide in America between the rich and poor. They chose a series of New York maps to prove their point. However, that was a subjective slant to support their position. While I appreciate their report bringing some of this to light, the fact is that if you work with the source mapping service, you'll find a somewhat different reality that expands on Business Insider's viewpoint. Our report will provide with a large selection of maps outside of New York that paints a slightly different picture of the iOS vs. Android War.
A Peak at a Few Larger Cities in the US & Canada
Below you'll see a series of Mapbox created maps of twitter traffic showing whether a city is for iOS or Android. In larger cities we're able to tell that Apple's iOS is strongest. It's quite consistant. But I don't believe that this directly links to having to be rich. I don't believe it's only about the "great divide."
(Excerpt) Read more at patentlyapple.com ...
Several years ago when I got my first “Android” box — a Logitech Google TV — I was delighted to log in with a terminal and see the basic Linux directory structure. Still am.
No one buys apple in Uruguay either. They can’t afford that bs. They get an android and are happy. Androids come in many qualities and sizes so there is more choice and more prices to buy into android.
Uruguay and other places like it. Plus people in developed wealthy nations who cannot afford Apple devices or have the money and just plain object to being ripped off. They get an android and are good to go
They're not iPhones. They're mostly dumb Android phones. Voice, messaging, only.
I don’t understand. Android is outselling iPhone in US and worldwide Samsung alone is outselling iPhone.
Oh ... Twitter! I missed that. Of course iPhone users Tweet more than Android users.
How about the fact that although it is a homophones for "peek," the meaning of "peak" is also an indication that iPhone/iPad/iOS usage spikes or PEAKS "at a few larger cities in the US & Canada?"
Look up the definition for "peak" and the consider these data if they were plotted on a 3D map and then get back to me about grammar and spelling. . . Especially considering the maps plotted areas both inside and outside of cities and in no way "peeked" into any area, giving instead an overview of much larger areas.
What was seen was that iOS over Android usage peaked (or spiked) in larger population areas. There may be several explanations for this dichotomy. It may be consistent with smaller carriers in rural areas not offering iPhones, the late entry of Verizon who tended to have a larger footprint in rural areas joining the iOS market three years after its introduction, or the tendency for rural families to be larger and tend to go for the sales promotions — buy one get one, two, three, or even four free, that Android makers use to push their low cost products to grow market share. . .
And you both are forgetting that OSX & iOS are both UNIX. In the case of OSX its one of the four TradeMarked UNIX POSIX compliant, in the world, capable of running all UNIX software and Linux software as well.
Plus you can use Windows in all its versions should you choose in sandboxes. . . And multiple versions of Linux in sandboxes, as well. Simultaneously. All under OSX.
No, author meant ‘peek’.
But given the relative writing skills of journalists today...then it is possible.
Android includes a vast majority of devices that are NOT competition in the smartphone market or tablet market. Better than 80% of the Android phone market is comprised by either basic phones or "feature" phones that cannot download apps or add functionality beyond what is included when they are sold. I.e. They are not "smartphones" and only share an OS with Android smartphones that compete with the iPhone. Samsung admitted in trial in 2012 that more than two-thirds of the so-called Android "smartphones" they had claimed they shipped that year were actually "feature" phones. . . and a majority of them could not even connect to the Android Play Store. So much for competition to iOS iPhones in the smartphone market.
In tablets, this is what a LARGE number of the counted "competition" to the iPads are:
Xelio 7" Android Tablet WiFi Webcam Portable Jelly-BeanThe vast majority of "tablets" in the Android market are these "white box," no-name manufacturer models designed as essentially throw away designs. Again, they simply do not compete against the iPad but are listed as "tablets" in the statistics.
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Front Camera - 0.3 Mega Pixels7" Capacitive Touch Screen Android 4.0 Tablet PC with Camera Wifi
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Front Camera - 0.3 Mega PixelsAnother I saw last week was a 5" touch screen w/stylus Android "tablet" with "Huge 2GB memory!!!", no WIFI, no BLUETOOTH, pre-loaded games, and basic apps. . . Android Froyo. Retail: $19.95
This is like saying that the top end auto makers are being blown away by the numbers of bicycles, tricycles, kiddie cars and HotWheels being made. . .
I’m funny about this. I think they’re both fine products, and I don’t wish for either one to wipe out the other. As a consumer, I benefit from them trying to outdo each other with features.
A Peak at a Few Larger Cities in the US & Canada
Lame attempt at rationalizing.
I beg to differ. These are statistical data. In such usage "peak" has a defined and understood usage in statistical graphing. These are point map statistical graphs. The author is NOT referring to "looking or peeking into" the cities, but rather noting that these data show a decided spike or "peak" in iOS usage over Android usage in cities. Look at a dictionary definition of the word "peak."
peak1 [peek] noun
1. the pointed top of a mountain or ridge.
2. a mountain with a pointed summit.
3. the pointed top of anything.
4. the highest or most important point or level:
the peak of her political career.
5. the maximum point, degree, or volume of anything:
Oil prices reached their peak last year.
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What Is Peaks?
verb (used without object)
14. to project in a peak.
15. to attain a peak of activity, development, popularity, etc.:
The artist peaked in the 1950s.verb (used with object)
16. Nautical . to raise the after end of (a yard, gaff, etc.) to or toward an angle above the horizontal.
adjective
17. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active:
Hotel rooms are most expensive during the peak travel seasons.
18. constituting the highest or maximum level, volume, etc.; optimal; prime:
a machine running at peak performance.
The bold definitions are applicable, specifically meanings 5, 15, 17, and 18. . . and in these data the plotted data peaks in cities and urban areas. . . and you misinterpreted a homophone incorrectly. The author used it correctly in context.
Confusion often occurs over the homonym pique, but I have never seen someone argue about peak and peek.
Wow! You really don't know statistical usage, do you? One "peeks into" while there is a "peak at" in statistical data. Look at the actual information that follows. . . It's about the data:
A Peak at a Few Larger Cities in the US & CanadaTraffic is data. . . One does not "peek into" data. That is not a statistical or data term. You are choosing to read it this way. I know how to read statistical and economic data: I got my degree in Economics around 43 years ago. So, RegulatorCountry, there is no rationalization here. . . only someone who appreciates the proper use of words in their correct context.Below you'll see a series of Mapbox created maps of twitter traffic showing whether a city is for iOS or Android. In larger cities we're able to tell that Apple's iOS is strongest. It's quite consistant. But I don't believe that this directly links to having to be rich. I don't believe it's only about the "great divide."
Learn how to read graphical data. . . this particular one is a two dimensional density graph. It would have been better displayed as a 3D terrain map where usage was shown as elevation Y plotted on a geographical XY plane . . . then you would grasp "peak" more intuitively by seeing it.
Are you an economist??? Obviously you are not because you are arguing with an economist about a statistical terminology frequently used in economic data.
You are reading it that we are to "look into" these cities. But "peek" is not a technical term used in statistics or economical data. . . Which these are. Peeking is NOT what is implied. YOU are inferring it, but misreading it when there is an appropriate terminology that IS correct usage without assuming an error that fits the context completely AND the definition of the word used.
I explained it quite clearly and provided the dictionary definition SHOWING the usage and STILL you persist. This is NOT about misspelling the word it is about WOU completely mis-interpreting the headline of the section. The economic context is that there is a PEAK OF USAGE or Spike (a non-economic synonym) in US and Canadian cities.
The source, PatentlyApple, whose normal coverage is patent law and patent lawsuits involving Apple Inc., is edited by an Attorney. . . who will be very careful about the usage and meaning of words. Specific words have specific meanings in specific usages. . . and this author knows this. Your assumption the author is stupid does not comport with the facts. He is used to reading some of the most obtuse English ever written: patent claims, where their legitimacy can hinge on the proper usage of a single word. It's wishful thinking on your part so you can ignore the article.
You choose to create a non-existent error, to change a meaning, to deny a correct, clear technical meaning, in favor of a "popular" but I'll-informed wrong meaning, so you can ignore the rest of the technical nature of the article.
William of Occam's Razor says you are completely wrong. So don't get in a pique about being wrong. The data are what the data are.
Oops. . . . Correction. . . Damn getting old.
Learn how to read graphical data. . . this particular one is a two dimensional density graph. It would have been better displayed as a 3D terrain map where usage was shown as elevation Z plotted on a geographical XY plane . . . then you would grasp "peak" more intuitively by seeing it.
World map of mobile distribution of iOS and Android by Twitter usage
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