Well, StatCounter is a web analytics company which records the traffic from different devices. According to StatCounter, by the month of February 2017, about 37.4% of online devices run on Android. Whereas, 38.6% of online traffic come from Windows devices. Well, Android users will feel really good to know that, Android just beats Windows to become the internet’s most used operating system. Android is now the most popular operating system on the internet. According to the reports from Statcounter, In the month of March 2017, about 37.93% of internet users came from Android devices, while only 37.91% of internet users used a device running Windows. Well, the third operating system was iOS which recorded 13.09%. The bulk of Android users came from Asia, you will be shocked to know that almost half of the internet users in Asia used an Android device previous month to browse the web. Statcounter stated “In North America Windows (all versions) maintained its lead across all platforms with 39.5% share in March followed by iOS (25.7%) and Android (21.2%). It’s a similar story in Europe where Windows (51.7%) is more than twice the level of Android (23.6%). However, in Asia, Android is on 52.2% compared to 29.2% for Windows.” StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen said “It marks the end of Microsoft’s leadership worldwide of the OS market which it has held since the 1980s. It also represents a major breakthrough for Android which held just 2.4% of global Internet usage share only five years ago.” You can read out the full blog post from StatCounter here. So, what do you think about this? Share your views in the comment box below.
