{"id":9336,"date":"2015-12-14T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2015-12-13T23:46:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:46:55","slug":"ninety-nine-one-is-everywhere-in-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/ninety-nine-one-is-everywhere-in-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninety-nine-one is everywhere in technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been aware of the 90\/9\/1 split in terms of creating online content (ninety percent of people consume content, nine percent will interact with content, and one percent will create content) but I&#8217;ve never looked to see how it carries over into other areas of the geekerati&#8217;s world.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/dec\/12\/ratio-technology-mozilla-firefox-os-90-9-1\">Charles Arthur has<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do operating systems, browsers and search engines all have in common? It seems to be a ratio of 90:9:1 between the key players. One player dominates; then others get a minimal share.<\/p>\n<p>Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation <a class=\" u-underline\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/12\/08\/mozilla-will-stop-developing-and-selling-firefox-os-smartphones\/\" data-component=\"in-body-link\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\">pulled the plug on Firefox OS<\/span><\/a> ? the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML-based apps ? a final death throe in the mobile OS wars. There are now three main platforms ? Google?s Android, Apple?s iOS and Microsoft?s Windows Phone ? for which worldwide shipments are currently running <a class=\" u-underline\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/prodserv\/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp\" data-component=\"in-body-link\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\">in a ratio of about 85:14:1<\/span><\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Now look at desktop OS sales: the ratio stands <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25955515\" data-component=\"in-body-link\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\">in the most recent quarter<\/span><\/a> at about 91:8:1 between Microsoft?s Windows, Apple?s Mac OSX, and ?self-build? machines which probably get Linux.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been aware of the 90\/9\/1 split in terms of creating online content (ninety percent of people consume content, nine percent will interact with content, and one percent will create content) but I&#8217;ve never looked to see how it carries over into other areas of the geekerati&#8217;s world. Thankfully Charles Arthur has. What do operating systems, browsers and search engines all have in common? It seems to be a ratio of 90:9:1 between the key players. One player dominates; then others get a minimal share. Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,4,111,52],"tags":[5579,889,5580],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-90-9-1","tag-distribution","tag-rule-of-thumb","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2qA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9338,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}