Skydemon mobile or ipad mini

[Colonel Panic]

Kindle Fire and Nexus seem to be selling well..

As evidenced by what? AIUI Amazon do not reveal sales volumes for any of their readers / tablets. No idea about the Nexus.

[Tim Dawson]

We keep a tally of people who have told us they bought an iPad specifically because SkyDemon was on that platform. Last time I checked it was many, many hundreds.

[Boswell]

Perhaps more interesting is looking at Flyer Forum members' usage of browsers/platforms. One particularly juicy thread link attracted 706 click-throughs:

Breakdown of browsers:
Safari 234
IE 216
Firefox 114
Chrome 113
Mobile Safari 12
Others 17

By platform:
Windows 413
iPad 172
Mac 72
iPhone 23
Linux 20
Others 11

Country split:
US 14
UK 591
France 43
Germany 2
Spain 4
Sweden 2
Nigeria 3

Does this mean anything? Not sure. I would have thought Chrome would be more popular, and where's the rest of Europe?

[Ridders]

Perhaps more interesting is looking at Flyer Forum members' usage of browsers/platforms.

Does this mean anything? Not sure.

Not exactly.
I use a Linux machine but with Windows VM's running on it, so its only picking up browsers not any Host OS's.

Those are quite interesting stats, but it's actually the percentages of usage of these devices among pilots that we're interested in. Pilots in general tend towards iOS rather than Android more than joe public, for some reason.

Tim, can you justify that last statement. Based on what evidence?
The fact that iOS is used by everyone using your applications, merely means that many bought the device, because they saw someone playing with one at the airfield, liked it in action, found the only way to get the function is to get an iPAD. Thats certainly the case where I fly from.

I am aware of a fair few pilots that use Android (myself included) because, well, its a low cost alternative to iOS and I quite like choice of hardware (and no ripoff data charges by phone providers who identify your device and force a different charging scheme).

To Date Ive resisted ordering any apple devices* for a number of years because I can see they charge a premium for their product, however I do see some benefits of having OS tied to Hardware, one vendor etc. Ive resisted over many trips to the US too, where this hardware is much lower in cost.


*not quite true: Ordered and then cancelled as they failed to meet delivery dates, then re-ordered another one and thats cancelled as they failed to deliver it.. apple have not covered themselves in glory. Im now deciding do I bother again...can I really justify it...but I do love the skydemon product.

[stevelup]

I would say that as you're on the fence and clearly not an evangelical Apple-hater, just go for it. You won't be disappointed.

[malcolmfrost]

Ive resisted over many trips to the US too, where this hardware is much lower in cost.

I couldn't resist I'm afraid, I went into Walmart for a pint of milk and came out with an iPad, it was "only" $420 though!!

[Dutch experiment]

It's the combination of tools for the Ipad that I use. Beside the perfect SD, aeroweather, Orbifly, JeppesenTC, buienradar (select Europe), that suite of tools works for me in all European countries and makes the Ipad (mini) of high value for me.

[A le Ron]

We keep a tally of people who have told us they bought an iPad specifically because SkyDemon was on that platform. Last time I checked it was many, many hundreds.

Plus one

[eharding]

Kindle Fire and Nexus seem to be selling well..

As evidenced by what? AIUI Amazon do not reveal sales volumes for any of their readers / tablets. No idea about the Nexus.

Purely by personal observation of who got what for Christmas in the family, and who decided to buy what for whom having seen who got what for Christmas.

The Kindle Fire HD proved very popular - obviously, personally I'm a vile Apple fanboi - but Amazon's even more full-on locked-down eco-system makes the Kindle Fire HD a very smooth and intuitive thing, despite the Android underpinnings.

[Skyhawk-N]

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[simon_gci]

I have now got my iPad mini cellular, after using SD on my iPad 2 with the stand alone Garmin GLO, the mini is a great size and SD does everything I want, pay your money take your choice I say, but I do find that most people I come across who are Applephobes are also foodies or wine snobs, maybe we could get a graph for that

[stevelup]

Just for info this is what hit a website of mine in December (top 15 agents out of 2749!). I'd guess, looking at the rest of the lower use agents, Windows still accounted for 90% of the 900,000 hits.

Depends what the website is though - you can read anything you like into statistics!

Is it the sort of thing that someone will read in bed on their iPad? Or is it something a corporate would be more at home with... I'm guessing the latter given that most of your hits have come from 64-bit machines running IE.

[Skyhawk-N]

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[stevelup]

Weird that you have so many people running IE9 on 64-bit Windows 7 then. You must attract a certain type of reader

[geejay]

We keep a tally of people who have told us they bought an iPad specifically because SkyDemon was on that platform. Last time I checked it was many, many hundreds.

Plus one

....and I bought the iPad Mini for the very same reason, Skydemon is brilliant on it....