Android adoption rate increasing six times faster than iPhone

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disolitude said:
Here is an interesting stat - http://microsoft-news.com/windows-8-overtake-android-web-presence-in-less-than-10-days/

Interesting bits -

"Statcounter has handy daily stats on web traffic from their thousands of sensor sites on the internet, and from there we can plot the above graph, which shows the web presence of Windows 8 has more than doubled since its release on the 26th October, and that its web presence has decisively overtaken that of Android 3 days ago."

"It should take less than a month for Windows 8 to overtake all of iOS’s web presence, which exposes the “Post-PC” propaganda for the lie it is"

A few points:

1. Statcounter completely ignores the iPad, which represents the bulk of iOS web usage. I'm not sure if they even count iPod Touch users.

2. Statcounter counts every single hit a web site gets. So a PC user spamming refresh on a blog will generate one point every single time, while a user who checks the hours of a store will generate a single point in their metrics. The PC user generates far more hits, but is he really a more important user than the guy doing a single search for store hours?

3. Finally, it's well known that a great deal of mobile internet usage is buried in apps, where Statcounter cannot analyze it.

I'll leave you with one more interesting, but misleading, metric. Email use:

http://emailclientmarketshare.com

Here iOS is represents 31% of usage, but the problem is that the methodology relies on the client displaying images. Not all clients do.