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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.
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
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.
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.