“We noticed an interesting thing the other day that we’d like to share with you. However, if you’re a Linux enthusiast, you may want to stop reading now,” Pingdom reports.
These are the operating system stats for April for the United States:
• 32.03% – Windows 7
• 31.22% – Windows XP
• 19.03% – Windows Vista
• 14.91% – Mac OS X
• 01.18% – iOS (iPad only)
• 00.71% – Linux
“These market share numbers are from Statcounter and are based on visitor statistics averaged from 3+ million websites. In other words, they represent computers used to access the Web. Mobile phones and other small-screen devices are not included,” Pingdom reports. “In other words, the iOS market share you see in the chart is only for iPad. It does not include the iPhone or iPod touch. We’ve verified this with Statcounter, just to be entirely sure.”
Pingdom reports, “Not only is iPad now so widely used that it shows up in this list, iOS for iPad has managed to pass Linux as a ‘desktop OS’ (we use quotes, because tablets will probably soon make up their own category). In fact, it passed Linux sometime around December. Not bad for a device that was launched just back in April of 2010.”
Full article, including breakdowns for other countries and more, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
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