Microsoft Windows Used to Have Nearly 100% in China and Now Google Has 50% (With Android)
CHINA moved (or 'transitioned') from "sleeping giant" to giant over the past few years, especially due to the economic stagnation of most Western countries. China now prioritises making its own chips (and chip designs), domestic software, and heavily 'sanitised' (censored) so-called 'apps'.
A couple of decades ago Bill Gates boasted in public that in China “[t]hey’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
Well, they're probably not cashing in right now, seeing these trends:
So despite zero-cost Windows people are shifting to non-Microsoft operating systems. Some are Chinese, but statCounter does not recognise those. statCounter uses very outdated parsers of Web clients.
China is a massive country with a massive population. It has its own in-house GNU/Linux distros and it contributes patches for Linux to make it compatible with Chinese hardware.
Will China bring about a faster "fall" for Microsoft? In India, GNU/Linux stands tall at 16% of the market. China isn't some poor or "primitive" country; in more and more areas it is becoming a technical leader, even if living conditions are subpar (even in places like Beijing, shown below). █
