In May 2020, Gartner predicted further decline in all market segments for 2020 due to COVID-19, predicting a decline by 13.6% for all devices. while the "Work from Home Trend Saved PC Market from Collapse", with them only predicting to decline by 10.5% for PCs. However, in the end according to Gartner, PC shipments grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter of 2020 and reached 275 million units in 2020, a 4.8% increase from 2019 and the highest growth in ten years." Apple in 4th place for PCs had the largest growth in shipments for a company in Q4 of 31.3%, while "the fourth quarter of 2020 was another remarkable period of growth for Chromebooks, with shipments increasing around 200% year over year to reach 11.7 million units. In 2020, Chromebook shipments increased over 80% to total nearly 30 million units, largely due to demand from the North American education market." Chromebooks sold more (30 mln) than Apple's Macs worldwide (22,5 mln) in pandemic year 2020.[20]
The range of measured mobile web use varies a lot by country, and a StatCounter press release recognizes "India amongst world leaders in use of mobile to surf the internet"[176] (of the big countries) where the share is around (or over) 80%[177] and desktop is at 19.56%, with Russia trailing with 17.8% mobile use (and desktop the rest).
Previously, according to a StatCounter press release, the world has turned desktop-minority;[207] as of October 2016[update], at about 49% desktop use for that month,[208][209] with desktop-minority stretching up to an 18-weeks/4-months period from 28 June to 31 October 2016,[210][211] while whole of July, August or September 2016, showed desktop-majority (and many other long sub-periods in the long stretch showed desktop-minority; similarly only Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are desktop-minority). The biggest continents, Asia and Africa, have shown vast mobile-majority for long time (any day of the week), as well as several individual countries elsewhere have also turned mobile-majority: Poland, Albania (and Turkey)[212] in Europe and Paraguay and Bolivia[213] in South America.[214]
According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for overall use), on weekends desktops worldwide lose about 5 percent points, e.g. down to 51.46% on 15 August 2015, with the loss in (relative) web use going to mobile (and also a minuscule increase for tablets),[224] mostly because Windows 7, ranked 1st on workdays, declines in web use, with it shifting to Android and lesser degree to iOS.[225]
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