Usage share of operating systems computer's installed base statistics, and actual (web) use needs not follow installed base. Also, Microsoft includes tablets (but StatCounter may also for Windows, while it wouldn't for e.g. Android). Video game store Steam publishes a monthly "Hardware & Software Survey", with the statistics below: By Q1 2018, mobile operating systems that can be found on smartphones, include Google's dominant Android (and variants) and Apple's iOS, with both combined at almost 100% market share. According to research by InsightPortal, there is a clear correlation between the GDP per capita of a country and that country's respective smartphone OS market share, Showing
Smartphone patent wars Smartphone patent wars The smartphone wars or smartphone patents licensing and litigation refers to commercial struggles among smartphone manufacturers including Sony Mobile, Google, Apple Inc., Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Huawei, LG Electronics, ZTE and HTC, by patent litigation and other means. The conflict is part of the wider "patent wars" between technology and software corporations. The patent wars occurred because a finished smartphone might involve hundreds of thousands of patents. To secure and increase market share, companies granted a patent can sue to prevent competitors from using the methods the patent covers. Since 2010 the number of lawsuits, counter-suits, and