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Android is About To Eclipse Windows as the World's Most-Used Operating System (cnet.com)
John Falcone, writing for CNET: Android is poised to overtake Windows as the world's most-used operating system. That's the word from web analytics service StatCounter, which monitors worldwide web traffic with an eye towards device operating systems. The firm found that 37.4 percent of devices online were Android -- just a hair behind Windows at 38.6 percent. Perhaps the bigger concern for Microsoft are the trend lines, however: Windows is on a steady march down from 82 percent in 2012, while Android is mirroring it upward from 2.2 percent in the same 5-year period.
All hail Linus, creator of Linux! May he live long, and may he father many more kernel releases to come!
Comparing apples and oranges makes a whole lot more sense than comparing two distinct OSes which run two distinct classes of devices.
They sure seemed to rely on Data much more than their ship's onboard computer. One would think they would either upgrade the ship's computer to how Data was configured or just plug Data into the ship.
Despite the number of windows on the Enterprise, they still relied on an Android.
Netcraft confirms, this joke is dying.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
FreeBSD is a Unix type Kernel, Darwin too. Unix != Linux http://www.thegeekstuff.com/20...
You appear to be under the impression that Android is free software, and therefore, the royalty for putting Android on a device is zero. AOSP is free software, but Google Play Store and Google Play Services are not. Furthermore, makers of Android devices with a microSD slot that supports SDXC have to pay an exFAT patent royalty to Microsoft.
Yes, we've won the desktop wars. Even if we had to cheat by slipping into mobile some 10 years ago and waiting for mobile devices to become nearly as capable as desktops.
PS - My first Linux portable was an Agenda VR3 (a 64-bit MIPS) some 15+ years ago.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
though the Linux desktop "OS" has truly become thought of as being called "Linux" ... in this case Linux truly is just the kernel, and Android is the OS.
Not so. Android is an OS only according to marketers and those who believe them. For anybody who will trouble themselves to understand the textbook definition, Linux is the OS (e.g., it schedules, manages virtual memory and devices, enforces security) and Android is a platform, not an OS (e.g., Android does not schedule, does not manage virtual memory, does not implement device drivers and does not provide the base security mechanism).
Now, I would not be surprised at all to see this post modded down once again by some morally challenged Google or Apple employee with too much time on their hands and too much skin in the game.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
on Android, usually a form of Busybox is often the shell, because it is a statically linked executable and requires nothing else to be installed.
No, Android uses Bionic, which is a libc workalike, like Busybox, but is not Busybox. Google uses Bionic for Android in part because it is somewhat more compact, but mainly to escape the GPL. These inaccuracies make me wonder about the accuracy of your other claim:
Android and its security model isn't bad
Really? In truth, the Linux security model is pretty good, but the crap that Android piles on top is hastily conceived, leaky and widely exploited.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The article headline is crap. Android/Linux total users passed Windows in long ago. The article should have said that, those users now create nearly the same amount of web traffic as Windows PCs.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The vast majority of PC and/or cellphone users is not made up of Computer Science students or power-gamers. Are you so insular that you don't get that?
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...
Android, a popular mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel
[table] Operating system - Android [table]
Android was first (currently not replicated by others, in a single year) operating system
from your textbook
Android (stylized as android) is a mobile operating system developed by Google
from another page of the same damn textbook
From the wiki 'textbook',
Linux is an OS, Android also an OS, Windows also an OS, and MacOS also an OS.
Linux kernel is the kernel. Android uses Linux kernel. Windows uses NT. MacOS uses Unix.
In my book, Linux is a fat bird and Android is an edible robot. your augment is invalid.