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[โ€“] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a skewed number though, since most people will have a lot of mobile screen time where most gamers and professionals have a more even divide between desktop and mobile - yet most people still own both. You're point still holds, but hardware companies earn money from the amount of devices sold and not with how many hours is being spent using them.

[โ€“] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, but we aren't talking about hardware company profits. This is an article about Windows losing market share.

[โ€“] huppakee@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Their market isn't selling their own hardware, but their software income comes from selling it with hardware.

Just over one billion active devices use Windows for their operating system, according to Microsoft. That sounds like an impressive statistic, but the company isn't as quick to point out that three years ago, the figure stood at 1.4 billion, meaning 400 million devices are no longer running the OS.

Imagihe you buy an android phone and a Windows PC tomorrow and use your new android everyday but don't take that pc out of the box, Microsoft still made money and therefor took a share of the market. At the same time, that machine is not going to show up in seo data.

You have a valid point, i'm not saying youre wrong but youre comparing apples (devices used) with oranges (devices sold). But you are right that there is a huge increase in mobile devices used and that surely correlates to the % of divices are running windows. I'm not disagreeing with that.