Android (operating system) wrote in "The New York Times" that "About one of every two computers sold today is running Android. [It] has become Earth's dominant computing platform." According to a Statistica's estimate, Android smartphones had an installed base of 1.8 billion units in 2015, which was 76% of the estimated total number of smartphones worldwide. Android has the largest installed base of any mobile operating system and, since 2013, the highest-selling operating system overall with sales in 2012, 2013 and 2014 close to the installed base of all PCs. In the second quarter of 2014, Android's share of the global smartphone shipment
Usage share of operating systems Online usage of Linux kernel derivatives (Google systems + GNU/Linux) exceeds that of Windows. This has been true since some time between January and April 2016, according to W3Counter and StatCounter. But even before that, the figure for all Unix-like OSes, including those from Apple, was higher than that for Windows. Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but the dominance varies by regions, has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems (not just to mobile) with the slide very noticeable in the US, where macOS has more than tripled, from yearly 2009 to 2017, with Windows there