[Swordmaker]

Your mobile market share chart is going to more and more meaningless, Mark. It works by measuring ad hits for Advertising that uses NetMarketShare counting software imbedded in the ads on webpages. If you’ll notice the sudden drop in iOS trend line beginning in October 2015 right when Apple started selling large numbers of its new Flagship iPhone 6S and 6S plus, but that makes no sense. However it also coincides with the release of iOS 9, which for the first time enabled AD BLOCKERS on iOS devices which block all ads in Safari and other browsers on iPhones, iPads, etc, which include Ads with NetMarketShare’s counting software. Reports are that upwards of 50% of iOS users downloaded and installed some version of Ad Blocking app.

Since this chart is a percentage chart, the lack of hits being counted for iOS due to the ad blockers will automatically translate as an increase in percentage of illusory hits in the major alternative: Android. In other words, there is no uptick in market share in Android shown on this chart, only a sudden drop in ads being counted on iOS devices, making it seem that there are fewer iOS devices on the Internet when that is not the case.

[markomalley]

Your mobile market share chart is going to more and more meaningless, Mark.

Sigh. There's always something, isn't there? Always some way where Apple-provided data is objective and anything else is corrupt.

How about this:

IDC:

[markomalley]

Oh, and by the way, I have nothing against Apple products or the OS. I think the products, all in all, are very high quality, innovative, and very usable...and the OS is, as far as OS's go, very stable. (Don't care for the closed ecosystem and the philosophy behind it, but that's a different issue altogether)

But what ticks me off is:

• The marketing:
  
  
  
  I don't care for smugness in advertising.
  
  
• The smugness and cult-like following of so many Mac users. I would rather use Windoze (and remember, I'm a Linux person), for all its faults, rather than be even remotely associated with that cult.

It's a pity, really. If it wasn't for that, I would probably buy an Airbook -- it's a very good product, really...but I'll be d@mned if I will ever give a company that promotes those attitudes a dime of my money. I'd rather be forced to drink Starbucks every day for the rest of my life.