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- Since mid-2020, the world uses smartphones more than desktop computers. For global statistics it's every day of the week. It has also happened for all individual continents . The proportions do vary widely by region , e.g. in Africa the smartphone share is highest at 72%, in Asia at 69% and in South America at 60%, in Europe is 49% while desktop is slightly lower, and in the United States it's at 43% and desktop at 54% . On some continents, e.g. North America and the US, smartphone use may only go over 50% on weekends, since smartphones usage increases on weekends, while the smartphone share has gone up to 54% for a single day , and on average over 50% for full week. (en)
- OS Device Shipments, Gartner (en)
- Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter . ChromeOS is also based on the Linux kernel. (en)
- Web clients' OS family market share according to StatCounter for February 2025.
The information on web clients is obtained from user agent information obtained through JavaScript code run by web browsers supplied to web servers. "Unknown" is probably mostly Windows operating systems. These figures have a large margin of error for a variety of reasons. For a discussion on the shortcomings see usage share of web browsers. (en)
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