Thanks for that, I was pretty certain there was a mistake somewhere as I said, I'd expect for a site as big as bbc.co.uk to get more than 4-600 hits from people on their mobile phones (I have a low-tech Nokia 60-70, and even it's capable of viewing the beebs site, add opera mini and most of the web is available).
Now the question is the mistake in the reporting or in Ashley's comments; either mistakenly or, as the conspiracy nuts will no doubt think, on purpose. Vijay. On 01/11/2007, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been discussing this in the office, so I did some sums > > Having a look at various (non-BBC) site stats I have access to, I'm seeing > a 3-4% market share. Now on some of them, I know I'm counting towards those > stats, but one particular site (with a 3.6% Linux usage) I don't look at > regularly (I just fix broken code on rare occassions). > > Even if we say bbc.co.uk has a 2% Linux usage, that's 340,000 users. And > if we say that bbc.co.uk has a 0.1% Linux usage, that's 17,000. > > Some stats have put Linux desktop usage at as low as 0.26%, so even if we > take the 0.1% figure, I'd expect a lot more than 400-600! > > I have a feeling that there's been a bit of a mistake made somewhere down > the line :) > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>[mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>] > *On Behalf Of *vijay chopra > *Sent:* 01 November 2007 16:52 > *To:* > backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > *Subject:* [backstage] Ashley Highfield speaks again > > Just read > this<http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951> > interview with Mr Highfield > "Highfield used the numbers of non-Windows users visiting bbc.co.uk as > justification for the corporation's XP-only release. "We have 17.1 million > users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, > 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users."" > (via slashdot <http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/133259>) > > Have tech.co.uk missed out a zero as I can't believe that the number of > Linux users is that low, I'd expect more people to visit the site on their > mobile phones than that. > Unless perhaps most do as I do and go straight to news.bbc.co.uk and > bypass bbc.co.uk entirely (in which case using those numbers as > justification for ignoring iPlayer on Linux is bizarre; perhaps some more > research into your audience is in order?). > > Though it feels good to be a member of such an exclusive club, can we have > the number of Linux users visiting news.bbc.co.uk please? That way we can > see if Mr Highfield's claims stand up to scrutiny. > > Vijay. > >
