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Literally just google “mac users more likely to pay” and you will find many such instances

One of the hits I got was https://www.networkworld.com/article/665211/byod-mac-users-p... — so Linux users obviously pay even more when they are interested ;)

My point being that this is a bit niche, and overall trends might not apply.

Are Mac users more likely to pay? Likely yes.

Are the total number of Mac users who pay higher than the total number of Windows users who pay? I kind of doubt it. Windows market share is still much higher than MacOS.

Exactly this. It's a well-known statistics that macOS users have ~2x better conversion rate into paying customers, while the rest of the equation is determined by the OS market shares.

(I am surprised that such a simple formula creates so much drama for some HN users that they are dare to downvote you for giving the single correct answer to that question)

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