iOS is just as popular as it’s made out to be. According to latest figures from Net Applications, more people are surfing the net on Apple’s mobile operating system as compared to Android and Linux combined.

iOS—this includes the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad—had a 1.13% market share, compared to Android’s 0.2% and Linux’s 0.85% share.

These figures aren’t device sales or OS activations; they simply show which browser is more popular to users for surfing the net with. And does Apple’s success foreshadow a sea change in the way we access the web?

“It’s something to take note of when a mobile operating system passes something that’s been around forever,” a Net Applications vice president Vince Vizzacaro told 9-to-5 Mac.

According to Mashable, if all the mobile devices are added together, they account for 2.6% of all devices used to browse the internet. If smartphones are growing at its current rate, and if the iPad and the nascent tablet market picks up, who knows—this might be the new paradigm in internet surfing.

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