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More proof of growing Mac OS X acceptance

by Mel Martin Oct 1st 2011 at 2:15PM

Chart by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNNMoney, from Net Applications data

With all the attention on Apple iPads and iPhones, you might have missed reports that OS X is steadily increasing its share of web traffic, which means there are more and more Macs out there.

Net Applications reports a 25 percent increase in Apple global desktop share in Fiscal 2011. The firm thinks the bump may be because students and parents are getting ready for school, and notes that there was a similar jump in September 2010, but that increase was much smaller than what the research is showing now.

Net Applications puts OS X with a 13.7 percent share here in the US, and 6.45 percent worldwide. Those numbers are record highs for Apple.

This reports parallels similar research from Chitika which shows similar gains for Apple in September.



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Nicole Maione

As a new user to Lion I am not surprised by the increase in traffic. I love Lion and find it to be easy to maneuver and less time consuming than past software updates. Many people are not giving the software a chance as they are afraid of changing technology. I agree with Hirshologist, that Microsoft better watch out, however I believe it may already be too late!

October 03 2011 at 9:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rygaard

Wondering what the numbers are after office hours ?

most are forced to use windows at work !

And more important, if you go to a class at a university you will see like 80% apple.

Would be a fun graph to see devices coming from a IP that belongs to a university.

October 03 2011 at 8:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rygaard

Wonder what the share is after office hours only - most mac users are forced on a Windows machine at work.

October 03 2011 at 2:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
garybau

Might this be due to better/more accurate metrics?? As each install of Lion now recorded, instead of snow leopard boxes in shops needing to be registered with a unique identifier, and duplicate machines not counted( and re-installs)

is a re-install now counted as a new OS with this new method?

October 02 2011 at 11:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hirshologist

So at this rate, Apple will take over Windows in 50 years? Damn, Microsoft better watch out. They be in some serious trouble yo.

October 02 2011 at 2:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DAVID DRUPA

Maybe for Snow Leopard, but Lion is the death of Apple - truly the Vista of Apple OSs - Awful Awful Awful!

October 01 2011 at 6:03 PM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
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darrell

Weak analogy. Vista wasn't the death of Windows, so why would Lion be the "death" of Apple?

October 02 2011 at 8:17 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
SSteve

That CNNMoney graphic is outrageously misleading. It makes it look like OS X traffic has gone up 600%. The graph at the Net Applications link is much more reasonable. Take this as a lesson, people. Always look at the Y axis. That will tell you whether the author of the graph is trying to clearly present data or wildly distort data.

October 01 2011 at 2:37 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
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AhmedI

It's actually not a bad chart for showing the changes over time: the changes are well distributed over the entire y-axis. That said, it *is* a bad chart for showing Apple's overall share of the market.

October 02 2011 at 2:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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