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Idk why everyone is always looking at statcounter. I still feel like Cloudflare probably has better data.
Whats up with android and iOS? They are counted, since they have their own colors, but shouldnt they be quite visible? I have a hard time believing there is more linux/macOS than android/iOS out there
Device type of Desktop answers that I think...
Whoopsiedoodles, my bad
Yep, seems about right.
The only thing this does not count are the offline devices. But in todays day and age, how many don't connect to the internet in some way or form?
Offline devices would be either air gapped old windows or stability Linux, probably Debian.
It feels like macOS is somehow over represented there. Specially for a global statistic. In many countries macs are completely residual, where I live I almost know more people using linux than mac.
These are http requests, so it could be inflated from the larger proportion of software engineers using macOS, who also make significantly more requests than average, including in their usage of ai...
Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of bot traffic masquerading with a macOS user agent
Makes sense, no commercial site wants to block rich people
MacOS at 20% globally does seem to be extremely high. I would have expected something like 15 at most.
Maybe countries where macs are more popular throw it off. But I'd be surprised if even the US was over 20% for Mac (but not iOS).
This graph is like trumps approval rating