Group A- This agrees with what I believe so I accept it as true.
Group B- This contradicts what I believe, so it must be wrong.
Reasonable people can argue about how these reports are done and their findings. Reasonable people can not influence people with conspiracy theory mindsets on the 'other side.'
Personally, I don't know if that breakdown is correct. 80%+ seems WAY high to me but I'm in no position to argue with that number. As pointed out before, the people who should care about this number (and adjust accordingly) would be retailers who have web sites or Apps!
As for market share- I'm certain there are enough iOS devices being used that the OS will justify supporting for years to come. I'm not worried about market share as a user or AAPL owner. Then again, I come from a Mac background where we were always in the minority and Windows was the 800# gorilla. iOS is stronger than OS X in it's market, probably because of all the lessons learned from OS X.
Traffic or settled transactions..? The two have very different meanings.
It seems that either you've not read the article or you struggle with understanding it.
I've made it a little easier for you below:
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
Apple's iOS products not only represented a large chunk of U.S. Black Friday sales, but where also used to place the vast majority of mobile purchases.
IBM highlighted that buyers' use of mobile devices for shopping was up 9 percent over last year, and that mobile devices now account for 37 percent of all shopping traffic and21 percent of online sales.
In general, smartphones drove twice as much traffic as tablets, but tablet users actually placed 1.5x as many sales, accounting for 13.2 percent of online purchases compared to just 7.8 percent for smartphones.
iOS leads Android in mobile shopping
However, when breaking down those numbers by mobile platform, IBM reported that iOS devices accounted for more than 4.5 times the total sales of Android or over an 80 percent share of mobile-oriented sales (above), with 17.3 percent of all online sales occurring on an Apple mobile device versus just 3.75 percent on Android products.
IBM stated that iOS users also spent an average of 18 percent more per order: $131.34 versus $111.35 for average Android sales.
Do any major stores use Flash anymore, or at least use it exclusively without having a redirect to a mobile site?
So, I'd be surprised if any major retailers were relying on Flash at this point. As I said, that was just a quick, anecdotal check. But I can't remember the last time I couldn't connect to a site because it was all Flash.
There's a good point. I think one of the daftest things I'd occasionally experience was a website with nothing but the black box demanding you install Flash. That is poor website design: it's so easy to put web code pointing to alternative non-flash text and links.
Anecdotally there was a restaurant chain which had such a poor website. I thought I'd look at the website again today. The bad flash-based website has gone but so have several of its branches. Maybe that company learnt the hard way...
There's a good point. I think one of the daftest things I'd occasionally experience was a website with nothing but the black box demanding you install Flash. That is poor website design: it's so easy to put web code pointing to alternative non-flash text and links.
Anecdotally there was a restaurant chain which had such a poor website. I thought I'd look at the website again today. The bad flash-based website has gone but so have several of its branches. Maybe that company learnt the hard way...
Heh. Maybe.
I mean, when Adobe itself has dropped mobile Flash ...
A pity, you could've saved yourself a lot of typing, since none of the rest meant anything.
A pity you don't get sarcasm. Not only in my original post, but even after I explicitly commented on it just a few posts above yours.
Yes - but the problem is that there are plenty of posters on this site who might well have posted what you wrote and actually meant it. Those of us who know you immediately recognized the sarcasm, while others, who do not or were not paying attention, fell foul of Poe's Law.
Comments
Such is the nature of reports like this.
Group A- This agrees with what I believe so I accept it as true.
Group B- This contradicts what I believe, so it must be wrong.
Reasonable people can argue about how these reports are done and their findings. Reasonable people can not influence people with conspiracy theory mindsets on the 'other side.'
Personally, I don't know if that breakdown is correct. 80%+ seems WAY high to me but I'm in no position to argue with that number. As pointed out before, the people who should care about this number (and adjust accordingly) would be retailers who have web sites or Apps!
As for market share- I'm certain there are enough iOS devices being used that the OS will justify supporting for years to come. I'm not worried about market share as a user or AAPL owner. Then again, I come from a Mac background where we were always in the minority and Windows was the 800# gorilla. iOS is stronger than OS X in it's market, probably because of all the lessons learned from OS X.
Traffic or settled transactions..? The two have very different meanings.
It seems that either you've not read the article or you struggle with understanding it.
I've made it a little easier for you below:
Apple's iOS products not only represented a large chunk of U.S. Black Friday sales, but where also used to place the vast majority of mobile purchases.
IBM highlighted that buyers' use of mobile devices for shopping was up 9 percent over last year, and that mobile devices now account for 37 percent of all shopping traffic and 21 percent of online sales.
In general, smartphones drove twice as much traffic as tablets, but tablet users actually placed 1.5x as many sales, accounting for 13.2 percent of online purchases compared to just 7.8 percent for smartphones.
iOS leads Android in mobile shopping
However, when breaking down those numbers by mobile platform, IBM reported that iOS devices accounted for more than 4.5 times the total sales of Android or over an 80 percent share of mobile-oriented sales (above), with 17.3 percent of all online sales occurring on an Apple mobile device versus just 3.75 percent on Android products.IBM stated that iOS users also spent an average of 18 percent more per order: $131.34 versus $111.35 for average Android sales.
Do any major stores use Flash anymore, or at least use it exclusively without having a redirect to a mobile site?
So, I'd be surprised if any major retailers were relying on Flash at this point. As I said, that was just a quick, anecdotal check. But I can't remember the last time I couldn't connect to a site because it was all Flash.
There's a good point. I think one of the daftest things I'd occasionally experience was a website with nothing but the black box demanding you install Flash. That is poor website design: it's so easy to put web code pointing to alternative non-flash text and links.
Anecdotally there was a restaurant chain which had such a poor website. I thought I'd look at the website again today. The bad flash-based website has gone but so have several of its branches. Maybe that company learnt the hard way...
A pity you don't get sarcasm. Not only in my original post, but even after I explicitly commented on it just a few posts above yours.
There's a good point. I think one of the daftest things I'd occasionally experience was a website with nothing but the black box demanding you install Flash. That is poor website design: it's so easy to put web code pointing to alternative non-flash text and links.
Anecdotally there was a restaurant chain which had such a poor website. I thought I'd look at the website again today. The bad flash-based website has gone but so have several of its branches. Maybe that company learnt the hard way...
Heh. Maybe.
I mean, when Adobe itself has dropped mobile Flash ...
A pity you don't get sarcasm. Not only in my original post, but even after I explicitly commented on it just a few posts above yours.
Yes - but the problem is that there are plenty of posters on this site who might well have posted what you wrote and actually meant it. Those of us who know you immediately recognized the sarcasm, while others, who do not or were not paying attention, fell foul of Poe's Law.
I'm curious of the original report.
Citation..?
Please just go back to bashing Apple in the comments of non-tech related articles on CNN.com like you were doing yesterday and leave us alone here.