| selnor said: "Information about operating system share is difficult to obtain, since in most of the categories below there are no reliable primary sources or methodology for its collection" Net Applications has estimated global desktop market share of Windows 92.2%, Apple 6.36%, Linux 1.41% As of June 2011[update], ~29 million iPads sold - This is pretty poor actually. I expected IOS mobile much more influential than I thought. Desktops and netbooks are still killing Iphone and Ipad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#mw-head |
An excellent demonstration of why we aren't going to use web usage to settle this bet. Your first citation pegs Windows at 69% usage, your second at 92%. Neither tells us anything about units shipped.
Luckily, we have two products launching at nearly the same time, so hopefully a year from now both companies will be kind enough to share numbers with us.
smbu2000 already set you straight on the iPad numbers, but I'll note that we're just a few days from Apple's next quarterly report. It's quite possible that Apple has sold its 100 millionth iPad by now.
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