It makes the email signature even more bizarre.
https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...
https://hypebeast.com/2022/9/apple-iphone-overtakes-androids...
But the distribution is not even. In my part of the country, you don't see iPhones very often at all. In other parts of the country, you see them everywhere.
Either it's two players with 51% and 49%, in which case the 51% is "most common," or it's many players, with 51% and a bunch of other percentages that collectively add up to 49%, in which case the 51% is still the most common, perhaps even more so.
I'm not shilling for Apple here, as Android was clearly most common From 2011-2021, and still is world-wide. If anything, I'm shilling for the English language.
Thread-initial description was 50% of the market, which is ambiguous. It could refer to either the market in sales, which indicates highest growth, or the market in userbase, which could be the layman's “common”.
In a market the size we're talking about, 51% and 49% are effectively the same as 50-50. I think it's reasonable to say neither is the "most common". They're used equally.
And I don't know the margin of error on the figures, but I'm sure it exceeds 1% anyway.
Term Numerical rate Percentage
Common 1 in 10 10%