Flash player version stats in Japan
About 3 weeks ago I setup an automatic flash player version detection poll app on the community site (www.3enhancedesigners.com) I run. It's nothing too great but does take advantage of Flash Remoting to get the results into an Access database which then in turn updates the view which is a pie chart.
I've seperated out the types of computers (windows or mac) along with how many of those computers have whatever version of the flash player on their systems. After getting the player version of the computer it sets a shared object so that it doesn't go taking it again. So far up to today there are a total of 2407 entries.
Of those entries to the DB, 2017 are windows and 390 are mac. Quite a difference but it does go to show that maybe macs are catching up a bit? Not sure really as most people who would come to this site are not your average moms and dads really. Most would be designers or developers that are looking to get some help from the community or read up on some tutorials on whatever program they are having trouble with. Even so, I think quite a few people do visit from work or maybe even the family computer, so the numbers might not be too biased.
The numbers on flash versions are as following:
Windows:
version 7.0.14.0 and up: 95%
version 6.0.29.0 and up 5% with the majority at 6.0.79.0 3%
There is one person out there with the version 7.0.35.5.... I think that is Breeze or something..
Mac:
version 7.0.14.0 and up: 93%
version 6.0.21.0 and up: 7% with the majority at 6.0.79.0 3%
With 5 users using the version 7.0.2.0 bit of weird version number there.
Not bad statistics so far. I plan to keep the poll up for a month, then take it down for a few. When I put it back up again for another month or so, I'm quite curious as to what the difference will be. Will it be local, here in Japan, or will the difference also reflect the increase in version internationally too? Not many who can't speak Japanese would come to this site, but who knows... I have seen some translators links in my logs.
Not sure if these stats are useful to anybody, but I thought I'd post just in case somebody out there was curious as to how Japan may be doing. Pretty good I think, and the version penetration can only get better.
Posted by Graeme at September 4, 2004 10:16 PM
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