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This is less interesting when they began discussing various computing devices rather than the laptop/desktop market where Windows competes. But 20% for macOS se
by p_ing 1y ago
This is less interesting when they began discussing various computing devices rather than the laptop/desktop market where Windows competes. But 20% for macOS seems way out there.
None of their numbers are sourced, which makes the complete article easy to dismiss.
- mattl 1y agohttps://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop-site-by-os/os-family-timeseries https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop... 2025-04-27 * 61.8% Windows * 28.7% Mac OS X * 4.2% Linux * 1.98 Chrome OS * 0.98 Ubuntu
- p_ing 1y agoThat's based on User Agent, an inaccurate measurement only consisting of those machines visiting a particular site. https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS53061925 https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS53061925 This is the shipment by vendor. There's no way macOS could make up 25% market share with 2024 shipment data.
- mattl 1y agoWell, not a particular site but the various websites of Wikimedia. I don't know why you think macOS usage is so low. People also tend to hang on to a Mac for far longer than a Windows laptop and especially a Chromebook.
- fragmede 1y agoI doubt wikimedia is lying though, so we have to concoct reasons why their data doesn't match the 2024 data. Which we can just make stuff up for. Is it because macOS users are more likely to use Wikipedia because they're smarter than Windows users? Dumber? Hold onto their computers longer? Whatever the real reason, again, I don't. believe the wiki link is lying, or the 2024 sales numbers, for that matter. It's just there have been years prior to 2024 in which computers were sold so using just those numbers is also an incomplete and inaccurate view of things.