It feels like macOS is somehow over represented there. Specially for a global statistic. In many countries macs are completely residual, where I live I almost know more people using linux than mac.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of bot traffic masquerading with a macOS user agent

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, no commercial site wants to block rich people

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

These are http requests, so it could be inflated from the larger proportion of software engineers using macOS, who also make significantly more requests than average, including in their usage of ai...

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

MacOS at 20% globally does seem to be extremely high. I would have expected something like 15 at most.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

Maybe countries where macs are more popular throw it off. But I'd be surprised if even the US was over 20% for Mac (but not iOS).