I thought it was weird that "other" had such a high percentage 4.98% - but then I clicked on the more broadly grouped chart (<a href="https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...</a>) and it dropped to 0% - "other" meant other versions than those listed.
Linux has about half of the market share of all OS X versions combined. Not too bad considering there's not exactly many systems that come with Linux preinstalled. Still minuscule compared to the Windows market share but I'd gladly announce that the year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived if it gets to OS X level...which isn't all that far to go.
Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year.<p><a href="https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=203&qpnp=13&qptimeframe=M" rel="nofollow">https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc...</a>
I have a feeling this is skewed by massive enterprise purchasing of workstations - they will naturally gravitate towards a stable windows version, and tend not to get upgraded very often.<p>I'd like to see a chart of desktop computer market share that people purchase for themselves.
With 88.67% of desktop OS being different flavors of microsoft OS, it seems a bit overwhelming that its still that high , especially after a massive acceptance of ubuntu. Its shocking that Apple has failed to make inroads in any other country outside the USA. One wonders why it never crossed their minds. This gives Microsoft a great opportunity to win back this big iPhone using crowd by making their Apps platform independent which they are doing already. I see Microsoft coming back big time like the windows 98 , 2000 and VB 6.0 kind of good times awaits them now :)
Last months saw an example of a distributed database/api service scraping, using hundreds of thousands of IPs of around the world, and random user agents (I think that all started with Mozilla/5.0, but the rest were from random historical user agents), to avoid rate limits.<p>The OSs referenced in those user agents went back to early windows versions, OS/2 Warp and Maemo (to put 2 examples that hurt knowing that were fake).<p>If this site take as base sites/URLs that are somewhat hit by that kind of traffic the stats could be very misleading.
OS X Sierra (10.12) adoption chart<p><a href="https://www.gosquared.com/global/mac/sierra/#beta" rel="nofollow">https://www.gosquared.com/global/mac/sierra/#beta</a><p>Looks like people are split 30/30/30 between the last three versions with many holdouts.<p>Things look way better in iOS land (76% on latest version):<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/</a>
You have to love the big spike in Windows 98 usage in Feb '16 (<a href="https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Windows+98&qpcustomb=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qp...</a>)
<a href="https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=FreeBSD&qpcustomb=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qp...</a><p>They need more decimal points to explain it
Here are some other OS usage stats.<p><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp</a><p><a href="http://cdn1b.static.pornhub.phncdn.com/insights-static//wp-content/uploads/2016/12/4-pornhub-insights-2016-year-review-operating-system.png" rel="nofollow">http://cdn1b.static.pornhub.phncdn.com/insights-static//wp-c...</a>
Without some information on how this data is calculated it's pretty tough too take it seriously.<p>Not that I doubt Windows is the majority OS, it obviously is. But I didn't need a chart to know that. The chart may be inaccurate depending on the source of the data and how it was extrapolated.
Are there somewhere market share statistics available for desktop and mobile operating systems combined? The separation between desktop and mobile devices feels a bit outdated. How does Windows relate to Android or iOS, for example?
"desktop" is a totally useless and nonsensical classification, when they do not (which is obvious from their numbers) count laptops plugged into a screen & keyboard for the duration of a workday as a "desktop".