We reached 5.1% market share!

We need to grow that 0.5%!

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    10 days ago

    The most compelling evidence I’ve ever seen for the elusive “year of the Linux Desktop”.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      Indeed.

      Also great evidence that Windows is not dying, no matter what the Linux fanboys claim.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        9 days ago

        The thing is Linux doesn’t need to topple Windows. Linux just needs a big enough market share for companies to go “maybe we should also offer official support for Linux?”

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Yeah, that part is sad.

        Although… at risk of being in the picture, we don’t know the mobile vs. desktop change. It could be that Windows is just dying more slowly than Mac OS (and ChromeOS, probably because schools block porn).

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      Windows’ growth is double the absolute percentage of Linux’s total even with its growth.

      It’s essentially the year of “Not Apple.”

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
    20·
    11 days ago

    The steam deck does seem like a good device for “bedtime” browsing.

    More seriously, this data is probably less biased toward tech literate users than most similar surveys that get published here. This is really encouraging

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    121·
    11 days ago

    and I thought iPhones were for wankers ☞( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Is the huge shift shift from iOS to Android to the fact iPhone users are typically less tech savvy, so places that banned porn hub (like Texas) effectively banned those users, who also weren’t savvy enough to use a VPN?

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Which doesn’t include any of the kids those moronic laws are purported to protect.

    • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I was going to suggest the cost of living crisis has made people adopt more reasonably priced phone options

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    112·
    11 days ago

    Remember kids, when you watch porn on Windows, Bill watches with you.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      10 days ago

      A better, more factual, reminder is that if you’re not using a VPN, your ISP is recording all of that, and potentially selling that information.

      This is not fear mongering, like the comment I’m replying to. It’s very real.

      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        They can see what website you go to, and how much data you exchange with it, but not what specific page on that site you’re looking at or what specific data you send (for example my ISP can’t tell that I’m making this specific comment).

        Provided the site is using SSL of course.

      • LostXOR@fedia.io
        2·
        10 days ago

        True, though all they can see is the domains/IPs and the rough traffic flow, nothing specific. And I’m not fearmongering, I’m making a joke. :P

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    10 days ago

    Hypothesis: Pornhub is effected by a lot of the bans in places like Texas. I don’t see ChromeOS or Apple users as the kind of folks who know how to find their ways around those bans, but Windows and Linux users are more likely to via VPNs and such.

      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        10 days ago

        effect verb

        1 : to cause to come into being

        2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : accomplish effect a settlement of a dispute

        b : to put into operation

        Effect is a perfectly fine verb. It’s wrong in this case, but it doesn’t imply the use of special effects.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          I’ve gotten really good with the weird grammar rules and exceptions, all of the “there, their, they’re” situations, etc. in English, but effect/affect is one that I always second guess myself on for some reason.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 days ago

          I understand that but I wasn’t about to go full English teacher on people. Maybe it’s condescending, but when speaking in public or online, I prefer to explain things in a simplified way that the general public can understand. My girlfriend likes to accuse me of mansplaining; I won’t argue that it is an incorrect assessment.

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            “Affect” is a word we can deprecate because all it’s for is umm actuallying. It goes in the same box as “inflammable” and “cleanse”.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I had the same thought! Lol, on reddit I’d lay ideas like this out and get an ocean of “Reeeeee!” in response to it from Apple fans. But I think it’s very true.

    • happydoors@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I see what you mean but it doesn’t take much to download a VPN app and hit the big green button

    • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Posted above but I will put it here for visibility also.

      Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all 12 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.

      Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      jokes aside it’s probably because of US states banning porn sites, and Apple makes up for like 80% of US phones

        • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          That’s not true. Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all 12 16 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.

          Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

          • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            Where are you getting 12 from? I’m seeing 8.

            You’re correct, though. As far as I can tell, nearly a quarter of all Americans are geographically blocked from Pornhub (unless they use a VPN).

            • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              10 days ago

              My source was a map posted to Reddit in July 2024. However after doing more research, Wikipedia reports it is now actually 16 states.

              Emphasis mine:

              February 2024: the Attorney General of the state of Texas sued Aylo/Pornhub for allegedly not obeying the state’s legal age verification law.[141][142][143] As of March 2024, Pornhub and other Aylo-owned websites have blocked access in Texas, due to the adoption of an age verification law which usually mandates age verification through the use of an identity document. In states where Pornhub is blocked, which also include Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma; a message is displayed featuring pornstar Cherie DeVille criticizing such laws.[

        • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          10 days ago

          I ran this through an AI, so take it with a grain of salt… But the percentage is actually, ostensibly, 24.6%.

          That’s more then enough to explain the descrepencies in the data.

          Edit: The work ChatGPT showed, in case this is wrong.

          Texas: 30.5 million

          Florida: 22.6 million

          Virginia: 8.7 million

          Indiana: 6.8 million

          Louisiana: 4.6 million

          Mississippi: 2.9 million

          Arkansas: 3.0 million

          Utah: 3.4 million

          Total population = 82.5 million

          The total U.S. population is approximately 335 million.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Or iphone users are only a small percentage of phone users?

      This graph isn’t US-centric and Android is a lot more popular in the world. The US is the skewed one here.