Comment by Andrew Radford on June 13, 2012 at 12:46am

True that the current Mission Planner is a bit flakey outside of windows - but it is purposely written in long outdated .Net 2/Winforms so that it can run on Mono on OSX or Linux. What it really needs is someone with the time, expertise and hardware to spot issues on the lesser used platforms, and perhaps add support in the form of platform specific installers etc. 

I could possibly help out if someone provides me a new Mac Book Pro ;-)

Comment by Jack Crossfire on June 13, 2012 at 1:01am

Surprising Linux beat even the phone OSes, but the phone OSes should be showing up as Linux anyways.  The 2% comprised by Android is the sum total of the job market.  It makes sense that if drones went from an obscure hacker hobby to mainstream in 4 years, things would regress to the means.  The real world remains the Windows laptop.

Comment by Marooned on June 13, 2012 at 3:35am

I would be also interested in geo statistics (visits per country).
Apple products are favored mostly in US. I believe in Europe numbers are probably lower.

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on June 13, 2012 at 5:55am

I'm surprised how low Android is.  I mean, not in terms of ranking, it seems about right, but just the amount.  2.3%?  That's it?

I have to admit that I have an Android phone, and I hardly ever go to DIYdrones using the phone.  The small screen size is just not conducive to it. 

And Blackberry... wow.

Comment by Marooned on June 13, 2012 at 5:59am

R_Lefebvre - I must admit that I'm visiting DIY few times a day and it's like 50/50: PC and Android phone (it depends if I'm working on the PC or running around/traveling). I have HTC Desire Z so the screen is ok. More over, I prefer classic layout than recently introduced mobile which has some serious flows for me.

Comment by Jimmy P. on June 13, 2012 at 9:52am

Could you please cross-reference this data w/ data from fashionmagazine.com ?

Comment by Veikko Vierola on June 13, 2012 at 12:37pm

@Anderson

Do you happen to have any statistics about the APM use purposes:

How is the user percentage divided according to different platforms (Arducopter, Arduplane, Ardurover, Arduboat) projects? First impression for me is that Arducopter is the most popular platform within DiyDrones users???

Comment by Paul Mather on June 13, 2012 at 2:57pm

80/20 rule wins again....

Comment by Bruce Jones on June 14, 2012 at 2:03am

I'm on a Mac too.  I take a MacBook Pro with me when I go flying (since I don't own a Windows portable machine).  I run MP in Parallels with Win7, and most of the time it's OK.  One weird thing is that mouse clicks from the trackpad don't work for creating waypoints in the planner so I have to take a USB mouse with me too - kinda sucks because I'm always forgetting it.  I really hate paying the $200 or so to get Windows running just so I can run MP.

I think if there's going to be platform expansion in the future it should be for notepad devices.  Just taking an iPad to the field when I fly would be awesome.  And it seems like everyone I know who flies multicopters has at least an iPhone and most have iPads.  Yes, I'm aware of the connectivity issue.  Somebody needs to solve that problem.  Maybe the closed architecture of iOS makes Android the only available notepad option.  But I don't know anyone who has an Android notepad (besides a few Kindle Fires which probably don't have the horsepower). I suspect an Android tablet version would get little use.

A Mac version of MP would be AWESOME but I don't expect it.  I should look at QGroundControl again, it's been a while.

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on June 14, 2012 at 9:31pm

As a point of reference, here is the data for wired.com (my day job). I've blurred out the absolute numbers, but the percentages are interesting. Much higher Mac usage than DIYDrones, and even lower Linux. The overall trends over the past few years, however, are the same: Mac (and iPad) growing, Linux falling.

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