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[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

I mean, just to be clear on what that looks like...

That'd be the red line, there. Assuming you take Statcounter numbers at face value, even.

Incidentally, how have the MacOS and OSX not converged more, speaking of end of life stuff?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Why do they even have two lines for OS X and macOS? It's the same thing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

They officially changed the name in 2016. I have to assume they changed what the browser reports earlier this year. For tracking purposes it would probably make more sense to count the ARM version separately from the Intel version, but I don't know if that's correlated to this change or what is. I'm not a MacOS user, though, so maybe the change is public knowledge and I just don't know about it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

statcounter checks user agent strings. it probably depends on the mac browser used to report the user agent string.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I know. Then they process those user agent strings to decide what OS it is. The question is why are they treating OSX and macOS as different OSes when they are the same? It was literally just a rebrand.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Also note the drop in Chrome OS mirrors the rise in Linux so I wouldn't rule out this just being user agent changes.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Statcounter is... a valid proxy, but I don't know if I trust it for fine grain changes. Big trends, maybe. Windows overall certainly seems to have lost some ground over time. Whether that's desktop PCs becoming less popular, the laptop market moving a bit towards Mac, the handheld market being weirdly represented because this only counts devices used for web browsers or whatever else is harder to parse.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the analysis!

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