Usage share of operating systems Usage share of operating systems The usage share of operating systems is the percentage of computing devices that run each operating system at any particular time. All such figures are necessarily estimates because data about operating system share is difficult to obtain; there are few reliable primary sources—and no agreed methodologies for its collection. In the personal computing platform area of smartphones and watches two systems dominate: Google's Android with over 2.7 billion users and Apple's iOS and macOS combined with over 1.3 billion users. In the area of desktop and laptop computers, Microsoft Windows is generally above 75% in
Usage share of operating systems of smartphones, tablets could be added giving a 63.22% majority. While an unusually high top, a similarly high also happened on Monday 17 April 2017, with then only smartphones share slightly lower and tablet share slightly higher, with them combined at 62.88%. Formerly, according to StatCounter press release, the world has turned desktop-minority; , at about 49% desktop use for that month, but mobile wasn't ranked higher, tablet share had to be added to it to exceed desktop share. For the Christmas season (i.e. temporarily, while desktop-minority remains and smartphone-majority on weekends), the last two weeks in December 2016, Australia