Postcards for Asymco: metropolitan distribution of views by operating system

26 comments

1. simon · 31 October 2010, 05:58

   this is fascinating. I was wondering, does this include RSS readers? I usually read your posts from RSS, so may not be counted?

2. jecrawford · 31 October 2010, 06:21

   What is the Mac OS X "city" source based on? I am in the UK but I am not based in London, so I assume that somehow I am aggregated into London as representative of the whole of the UK.

   John

3. asymco · 31 October 2010, 07:08

   No, RSS hits are not pageviews.

4. asymco · 31 October 2010, 07:10

   If you are in UK but not in London, you would not be showing up in the London count. The way the stats classify location is by the registered location of the IP address. You'll note that for the Mac numbers, the top ten don't add up to the total views. There are 510 localities recorded from UK. The highest is London with 9211 visits, the second is Manchester with 490, quite a gap.

5. Duncan · 31 October 2010, 08:05

   Registered location of IP address is imprecise because it reflects the location of the site visitor's internet service provider's host computer and not the location of the site visitor. For example, the registered location of my current IP address is more than 300 miles away from where I actually am.

6. David Chu · 31 October 2010, 08:06

   Can I add myself to the list?

   IPad Taiwan - 30

7. @aegisdesign · 31 October 2010, 08:28

   Man, he's hitting refresh a lot. Is that allowed? :)

8. Ken · 31 October 2010, 08:52

   What's the deal with Eau Claire under iPod? That town has approx. 60,000 people.

9. MattF · 31 October 2010, 08:56

   Note that locations in the Washington DC metropolitan area are likely to be registered in small municipalities in Northern Virginia or Maryland (Tysons Corner, Arlington, Sterling, Chantilly, Reston, Rosslyn, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, etc.) rather than in the District of Columbia.

10. Kristian · 31 October 2010, 09:11

    That amount makes the whole Cuppertino Campus.. so everybody there reads this ;)

11. Hap · 31 October 2010, 09:28

    Was surprised to see Santa Rosa listed. I live in the Berkeley, but my ISP (Sonic.net) is in Santa Rosa. Sonic's reputation seems to have made it popular, so I wonder if many of those 585 iPads are actually in the Bay Area, rather than Sonoma County to the north.

12. Kristian · 31 October 2010, 10:00

    It would be interesting to investigate that what companies are in those locations and draw the conclusions from that :)

13. Stefan · 31 October 2010, 10:51

    Practically no Symbian ussers, and half of the few are from Finland.

14. Ted_T · 31 October 2010, 10:53

    Wow, New York CIty 5,089 -- Cupertino 4,293. There is a much greater upside potential in NYC :-) That, and I guess RSS readers are not very popular on the Apple campus. Note also that Redmond, WA doesn't appear in the stats -- I guess at Microsoft headquarters heads continue to be buried deep in the sand.

    Posted from NYC (and I don't use RSS either...)

15. Stefan · 31 October 2010, 10:54

    iOS has more readers as Windows, Linux, Android, Rim and Symbian combined and about 20x as many as other mobile OS.

16. Iphoned · 31 October 2010, 11:12

    Only Mac users from Cupertino? I wonder why.

17. Kristian · 31 October 2010, 11:42

    Sad isn't it :D

18. asymco · 31 October 2010, 12:22

    I'm going to keep RSS feed full content as it provides more options on reading. Unlike regular publishers (web or print) I am not trying to optimize my traffic. I am concerned with maximizing the reading and comprehension of my content. Subtle difference.

19. capablanca · 31 October 2010, 13:27

    Horace, when I saw the Seoul number, my first thought was that Samsung is reading what you write. Likewise, Nokia from their Symbian devices in Helsinki. I should also note that Waterloo is a suburb of Toronto, where a certain Canadian phone manufacturer is headquartered.

    -capablanca

20. strowger · 31 October 2010, 14:09

    How are you determining the visitors' location? UK ISPs' networks are very centralised on London. I imagine many provincial visitors will appear as being in London.

    Do you see any in Mamchester?

21. WaltFrench · 31 October 2010, 15:30

    Yes, and Mr. Google sez that Kauniainen is in Helsinki's metro area.

    All the geo oddities, however, seem to support the view that Asymco is valuable (Ok, at least interesting) for the HQ types who visit using their own company products.

    There's the second feature that caused me to smile: that Windows, the #2 OS here, was so far down San Francisco's list. Classy.

22. WaltFrench · 31 October 2010, 15:31

    Subtle, perhaps, but not unnoticed by your readers. Thank you.

23. Alexkhan2000 · 31 October 2010, 17:49

    Must be all the low-rung Samsung analysts in Seoul doing competitive studies on their Android phones (as well as Windows PC's) to present to their big-wig executives. Haha. Obviously, Samsung sees Apple as a major competitive threat as well as a big customer. Samsung is watching Apple like a hawk and rightfully so. Apple is now their number one competitor (they've now pretty much squashed Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and LG) as well as number one customer. That's a tricky situation to manage. It's the same with Apple - Samsung is Apple's number one hardware competitor as well as number one supplier. It's the ultimate love-hate relationship.

24. Alexkhan2000 · 31 October 2010, 17:55

    The Wall Street types are apparently slow to catch on to what's *REALLY* going on. ;-)

25. Marcos El Malo · 1 November 2010, 18:43

    Los Angeles didn't even make it onto the Win list! I guess this is more of a content town, so Win users aren't likely to be aware of Asymco.

26. HGW · 7 November 2010, 06:08

    and iOS is bigger than Windows though.