Apple’s iOS has surpassed Linux as the world’s third most-used operating system, according to NetApplications. The OS, which powers all iPod Touches, iPhones, and iPads, currently holds 1.13 percent of the market, while all flavors of Linux account for only .85 percent of the market.
The most-used operating system is still Windows, the various versions of which held steady at a whopping 91.34 percent share. The second-place contender, Apple’s OS X, was slightly down at an even 5.00 percent. Windows 7 itself currently holds 15.87 percent of the market, above Vista’s 14.00 percent but well below the aging XP’s 60.89 percent.
Image courtesy NetApplications
This news surely comes as somewhat of a blow to Linux, which has held the third-place position for the better part of the past decade. Proponents of the open-source OS have always been quick to proclaim that Linux’s time is coming – Windows Vista was supposed to spur wide-scale adoption of Linux, as was the netbook revolution – but this data confirms that it is still largely a niche OS.
Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, powers all of its extremely popular iDevices, and lately appears to have taken priority even over OS X. Apple’s recent keynotes have focused mostly on iOS 4 and 4.1 while OS X 10.7 remains unmentioned, despite evidence of its development.
This site is called Windows 7 News, so it stands to reason that we’d be more concerned with Windows 7′s marketshare than with any other OS or Windows version. Indeed, Windows 7 made headlines last month when it surpassed Windows Vista’s marketshare just ten months after its release to the public. However, it’s important to keep an eye on all competitors, big and small – though iOS doesn’t currently seem to be gaining marketshare at the expense of Windows, it’s entirely possible that tablets could begin to supplant notebooks and netbooks as the mobile computing device of choice.
Sources: Conceivably Tech, SoftPedia
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