The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft’s Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple’s macOS in distant second place. But in 2020, Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS, and Apple fell to third. That’s according to numbers from market data firm IDC and a report on IDC’s data by publication GeekWire. Chrome OS had passed macOS briefly in individual quarters before, but 2020 was the first full year when Apple’s OS took third place....

Published in arstechnica.com · by Samuel Axon · 2 min read · July 29, 2023