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­(original title: illustration | inflection point: Android Super Windows has become the most commonly used operating system in the world)

­Qin Zhaoying of thepaper.cn

­Android has surpassed Windows as the most commonly used operating system in the world for the first time, according to the latest data released by StatCounter monitors. StatCounter analyzes the usage of each operating system by monitoring more than 15 billion page views per month generated by 2.5 million web pages. The result represents the usage of each operating system, not the number of users of each operating system.

­in March 2017, the proportion of Android users reached 37.93%, slightly higher than that of Windows (37.91%). Although the gap is not obvious, judging from the changes in the market share of the two over the past few years, this inflection point is inevitable. In March 2009, Windows usage accounted for almost the entire market, reaching 94.48 per cent. At this point, Android's market share is only 0.02%. Since then, Android usage has continued to rise rapidly, while Windows usage has been decreasing year by year, and the gap between the two has been narrowing. Interestingly, for Apple, the shift in usage between mobile and computer systems has long taken place. In March 2009, Apple's mobile system (iOS) accounted for 3.84% of usage, while Apple's computer system (OS X) accounted for 0.32%. By March this year, the usage of Apple's mobile system (13.09%) was nearly three times that of Apple's computer system (5.17%).

­Windows Why is the scenery no longer?

It's not surprising that Android and Windows will change this way. Shipments of personal computers (PC) have declined year after year over the past five years. In contrast, smartphone shipments continue to grow rapidly. According to data released by Gartner, a consultancy, 1.47 billion smartphones were shipped in 2016, five times the number of PCs shipped (269 million).

­the rapid growth of the smartphone market has benefited from emerging markets such as India. In these countries, most people could not afford the cost of personal computers until the advent of relatively cheap mobile phones, causing them to move beyond the stage of personal computer development and directly into the era of the mobile Internet. According to Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends report, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 34% of the global smartphone users in 2008, and by 2015, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for more than half of the smartphone users.

­Android is not dominant in all countries

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In fact, the contribution of emerging markets to Android can also be seen from the use of operating systems in various countries. According to statCounter monitoring data last month, Windows is still the most commonly used operating system in Europe, North America and other regions. For example, the United States (Windows:38.03%), the United Kingdom (41.48%) and Japan (54.92%), etc. In China, India, Southeast Asia and other places, Android occupies a dominant position. Among them, the use of Android in India is as high as 61.78%, while that in China is 42.12%.

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