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Mac Gains Internet Browsing Market Share at Expense of Microsoft
by , 4:50 PM EDT, April 2nd, 2008
Over the last year, the percentage of people using a Mac to access the Internet has risen from about 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent while the Windows market share has dropped by the same amount, according to Net Applications on Wednesday. The iPhone has passed all other OSes except Linux and has gained fourth place in data accumulated up through March 2008.
Internet browsing market share numbers were as follows:
- Windows - 91.6%
- Macintosh - 7.48%
- Linux - 0.61%
- iPhone - 0.15%
- Playstation - 0.04%
- SunOS/Solaris - 0.01%
All other OSes and and the Nintendo Wii failed to register as much as 0.01 percent. The Macintosh market share gains came at the expense of Microsoft, shown in the chart below.
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Observer Comments
Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:49 pm Subject: Once again ...
I need to point out that Net Applications tracks only those sites that they are PAID to track. That will hardly be a representative cross-section of Internet usage. It's very likely skewed toward business-oriented sites and may or may not even include big sites like Amazon or Google, as they are likely to do their own tracking. Thus, it does NOT really represent "Internet browsing market share" except in a quite limited sense. At least, now, this is not being interpreted as "Mac market share," as such announcements used to be labeled.
Given that, the INCREASE in Mac "share" is encouraging.
One nit: the title is pretty much a tautology. If Mac browsing market share is increasing, perforce, the Windows share must decrease, as 1) the total "share" is fixed and 2) the not-Mac-nor-Windows share is very small (less than 1%).
Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:17 pm Subject: Is the pie growing?
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