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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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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.
Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of bot traffic masquerading with a macOS user agent
Makes sense, no commercial site wants to block rich people
MacOS at 20% globally does seem to be extremely high. I would have expected something like 15 at most.
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...
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).