Desktop Operating System Market Share
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But remember that Chromebooks are a US only story. There are very few of them outside the USA. One good year in the USA doesn't gain many percentage points in a worldwide stat.
Once in a while, in a blue moon, I see one single device at Saturn megastores in Germany. Usually it stays at the store with increasing "product of the week" discounts until someone finally takes it away.
In Portugal, Italy and Greece I am yet to bump into a store selling them.
So they switched to Linux because well, not because it's Linux. Funny :-) You probably meant : they switched to Linux for none of the reasons HN's readers like Linux (open, free, people-like-us, etc)
A lot of enterprises are beyond proxies and many places don't allow you to access internet outside a few select sites
Think if I hadn't started with KDE at that time I would be much more fond of OS X.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc...
Agreed. And it's by no means the first such example.
However, the numbers are based on unique visitors to a range of websites. The variation might reflect a wide variation in web accesses from different operating systems (though I doubt it), but it doesn't directly measure the installed base.
It's not that hard to believe. Their iPad + keyboard is cannibalizing their desktop.
I'd love to see iOS + Mac versus Windows + Mobile Windows
I'd like to see a chart of desktop computer market share that people purchase for themselves.
One mom and pop machine shop I ordered from got tired of using USB drives to haul CAD files and machining instructions between systems so they started using Google Apps with Drive as the sharing mechanism. In order to do that, they had to hook up several 10 year old Windows XP machines to the internet and within weeks they got hit by the blaster worm or some other pre-SP1 virus. That cost them weeks of machine time on their older CNCs and hundreds of man hours doing incident reports for their bigger clients like the defense contractors. The situation in the clinical biotech companies I worked at was never that bad because of HIPPA compliance and more focus on networked services like lab databases but still atrocious. So much of our industrial infrastructure is built on a house of cards.
I can attest that academic biotech labs are still pretty atrocious, for the reasons you mention.
Windows XP (or super old OS X installs, pre 10.5) are pretty common on non-networked machines that function as appliances. It's not uncommon to hear about a machine controlling a $X00,000 device being compromised by malware that road in on a USB drive, despite the air gapping.
Sometimes I feel that it would be better for vendors to use a super minimal Linux distribution for each of these workstations that basically function as an appliance. Not only could the vendor reduce the attack surface for any potential malware exposure, but the one-off nature of the distro and small overall number of workstations would provide a minimal incentive for malware authors to target.
7 - 61%
10 - 28%
8 - 8%
XP - 1%
Vista - <1%Macbooks seem to have cornered the 18-25 female demographic for computers.
I see macs more among developers, but that's because I don't tend to hang around privileged rich kids that much these days, since I work for a living.
When I was at university though, the vast majority of computer science students were running either Linux or Windows. I think on the balance of it, it was mostly Windows, but the Linux users seemed to get better grades and had a better idea of what they were doing.
Macbooks were the computer of choice for the Arts and Commerce faculty students (most of whom, incidentally, did not have jobs).
Netmarketshare doesn't divulge country numbers unless you are a paying customer.
Netmarketshare also "balances" its numbers, so the results could vary a lot according to how much weight it gives to China.
The only thing the original proposal would do is make Apple look better, but it wouldn't really be USEFUL for anything.
Not that it changes anything
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I think they simply failed to keep up with the quality they once had.
1) If Microsoft is already/still at ~90%, is there really room for a big time come back? Getting the rest of the market is small potatoes compared to what they already have.
2) How much of the market does desktop represent, anyway? Most people I know do not own a desktop. They may have a laptop, but they may also only have a tablet and/or phone.
Now, I believe you are actually suggesting that Microsoft can leverage their desktop market to get back into tablets and phones, but I don't know . . . so far, their efforts have been disappointing, and frankly, people are used to their Android devices, so Microsoft will actually be the weird phone even if it is the normal desktop.
Many of those devices do allow for a SIM card as well.
http://www.saturn.de/de/category/_tablets-252064.html?search...
TREKSTOR SurfTab duo W1 Volks-Tablet WiFi, Convertible mit 10.1 Zoll, 32 GB Speicher, 2 GB RAM, Windows 10, SchwarzI think this is the case here.
Coming back from what?
They've been steady at 90+% market share for a couple decades now. The modest increase in MacOS market share this past decade has never been more than a couple of percents worldwide. A drop in the bucket, really.
Even in the tech world, outside of startups and hipster tech companies, there are a lot of developers using Windows (i.e. the vast majority of .NET developers).
I'm not sure what you mean by Apple failing to make inroads outside of the USA as well. They've made inroads all over the western world.
MacOS has about 1% market share worldwide.
Apple has around 10% [0] of the market for laptop sales (most consumer computers are now laptops, I don't know any non-enthusiasts who have bought a PC in the last 5 years).
Now, factor in that those sales figures include less developed countries as well as developed countries, and you're probably look at at a decent margin about 10% of personal computer sales for home use as Apple products.
[0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-2015-notebook-m...
I'd love to see the data like you say, would be interesting.
I think Hacker News will likely have very similar stats. Maybe somewhat more Mac and Linux leaning, even.
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
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).
If this site take as base sites/URLs that are somewhat hit by that kind of traffic the stats could be very misleading.
https://www.gosquared.com/global/mac/sierra/#beta
Looks like people are split 30/30/30 between the last three versions with many holdouts.
Things look way better in iOS land (76% on latest version):
(This is the case even for the US, but even more so worldwide, where a Macbook costs a month's gross salary rather than a week's worth.)
Also there are many valid reasons to not upgrade from NT...
Not if you expose your machine to the internet!
I suspect NT wins unless there are unpatched TCP/IP exploits.
I wonder what percentage of in-use ATMs make a similar bet.
There are some nt machines chugging along doing specific tasks that will outlive us all.
They need more decimal points to explain it
The world has roughly 196 countries. I don't know how many of those you can buy Macs in, but I'd expect there are gaps.
However, a lot poor countries have access to cheap PCs, or local cheap PC assemblers, or users can build their own machines.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
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https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/libs.html
As of Android 7, if the application tries to link to system libraries not part of that list, it will just get killed.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...
But "year of the Linux desktop" has a clear and well defined meaning since 1999 or so -- it's about people running Linux (and Linux userland, not Android) on their personal computers, whether desktops or laptops.
Only these APIs are allowed to be used.
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.
"The data is compiled from approximately 160 million unique visits per month. The information published on www.netmarketshare.com is an aggregation of the data from this network of hosted website traffic statistics. In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported monthly. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals."
Laptops/desktop are a form factor / product category, not a usage pattern.
The same way as 20kg desktop PC on boats are not "laptops".
Sometimes you do need to know how its used (e.g. if you sell peripherals that only make sense for "road warriors" you will want to know how many use their machines at a specific location all day, regardless of form factor), but most of the time, laptop/desktop distinction based on form, like the one we always been using, makes far more sense.