With Safari itself pulling slightly more than wha tfolks are saying Apple's marketshare is. Then adding in users like myself that use Firefox and not Safari or Explorer this shows that the install base of Apple is more than the market share reports we keep hearing.

Of course I run a couple of websites and about 12% of visitors are using Macs, and we are not tech oriented websites, so that myth has already been blown out of the water.

"...but Safari holds the distinction of being the only single-platform browser with any significant piece of the browser market."

Is this really a distinction? It sounds like a limitation. Isn't IE a single-platform browser since they have stopped supporting Macs?

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Guest wrote:
With Safari itself pulling slightly more than wha tfolks are saying Apple's marketshare is. Then adding in users like myself that use Firefox and not Safari or Explorer this shows that the install base of Apple is more than the market share reports we keep hearing.

Congratulations! You have just stumbled upon the difference between market share and install base!

And we can only assume that the collaborative collators (horrible alliteration, yes) are reporting the browsers accurately, the other day a site I visited with Safari 2.0.3 confidently told me I was using Mozilla 5.0 or similar.

Uh, short answer? No.

Internet Explorer has existed in multi-platform mode for a loooong time.

Safari has *never* existed on the PC side.

Earth to brain, earth to brain....

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Biff wrote:
Congratulations! You have just stumbled upon the difference between market share and install base!

Now, if only the media would catch on to this.....

-Jon

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"...but Safari holds the distinction of being the only single-platform browser with any significant piece of the browser market."

Is this really a distinction? It sounds like a limitation. Isn't IE a single-platform browser since they have stopped supporting Macs?

Snide comments aside, it may almost be, but it isn't yet. I know my family used IE until just a few weeks ago, when I finally upgraded them to OS X, and now they all use Safari (that's four more!), and I just switched from Firefox to Safari when I upgraded myself at the same time to Tiger. But in any case, IE is still used on Macs, and my guess is that the vast bulk of Macs still running OS 9 or earlier are using IE, as it's almost the only option. We never could get Netscape or Mozilla to work properly on our Macs, and IE's features really outshine the older versions of Mozilla/Netscape, so there is still a good number, I would suspect, of Macs using IE. Hey, even I launch it on occasion--mainly to see what I'm missing.

-Jon