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Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by Someone on Sunday October 25, 2020 @03:40PM (#24889252)
Reading https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/doj-google-suit/c21c1..., the missing part seems to be “of mobile device usage, in the USA”. It says:

“In the United States, Apple iOS devices — those running on Apple’s proprietary mobile operating system account for roughly 60 percent of mobile-device usage. Apple’s is a closed ecosystem; Apple does not license iOS to third-party mobile device manufacturers.

Another roughly 40 percent of mobile-device usage comes from devices that use Android, an open-source mobile operating system controlled by Google. Unlike iOS, Android is licensable, which means third-party mobile device manufacturers can use it as the operating system for their devices. All other mobile operating systems, combined account for less than one percent of mobile device usage in the United States.”

(Of course, whether that’s correct is a different question from whether that’s what the DoJ claims, but it doesn’t seem farfetched to me that it is correct, too)

Re:Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet by mroche on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:52PM (#24892073)
At least one aggregator of this kind of information has the 60/40 metric as pretty much spot on, going from Sept. 2019 to Sept. 2020.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile-tablet/uni...

Mobile and Mobile/Tablet are pretty much the same, and Tablet only giving Apple a few percentage points advantage further (~65%).