{"id":205520,"date":"2017-04-03T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205520"},"modified":"2017-04-03T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:17:14","slug":"more-internet-users-on-android-than-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/205520-more-internet-users-on-android-than-on-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"More Internet users on Android than on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android has overtaken Windows to become the most used operating system in the world in terms of Internet use, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/os-market-share#monthly-201703-201703-map\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>StatCounter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to March 2017 figures, Android represented 37.93% of Internet activity. Windows was a close second on 37.91%, with iOS in third with 13.09%.<\/p>\n<p>The map provided by StatCounter, posted\u00a0below, shows that Android dominates in\u00a0high-population countries China and India, along with many countries in Southeast Asia and Africa &#8211; including South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The other operating systems making up the ranking include OS X and Linux.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-205548 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats-640x370.jpg\" alt=\"OS Stats\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats-640x370.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OS-Stats.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/205348-amazon-bans-sale-of-pirate-media-boxes.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon bans sale of pirate media boxes<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android has overtaken Windows to become the most used operating system in the world in terms of Internet use, according to StatCounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,123,807],"class_list":["post-205520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205550,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205520\/revisions\/205550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}