just6979":zt12yoq4 said:
Did no one notice the weird spikes in October on the Worldwide Browser Share graph? This spike is also in another graph (
http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-m ... pcustomb=1) from Net Applications, where the Opera Mini curve is actually labeled Java ME. iOS went way up, and Opera Mini/Java ME went way down in October. I've seen this graph in a few different articles, with no mentions of this strange spike, but something is obviously wrong here.
I was hoping someone could explain the same thing. It's a weird spike. I can't think why iOS and Android usage would both shoot up like that for one month, then go back down, and the similar temporary drop in Opera usage doesn't look large enough to cancel them out, so there must be some other data that isn't on the graph.
(Was there a problem with Opera that month that forced people to switch to their stock browsers or something? Seems unlikely, and wouldn't account for all of the spikes.)
Maybe something happened in October that meant people with Android and iOS were more likely to be browsing the web than people using other mobile browsers.
(Or maybe the way the data is collected is prone to reporting false anomalies. Always a possibility.)
