Market share Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Talking Points Memo sees Windows visitors decline, Mac and iOS users soar

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 27th, 2011)

The progressive left-leaning political news site Talking Points Memo issued an interesting set of (non-partisan) statistics that shows just how much the share of total devices running Microsoft Windows has declined in the last five years. As you can see from the chart above, in 2006 78% of ...

Gartner shows iOS lost smartphone share to Android in Q3 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 15th, 2011)

Although Apple is selling iPhones like the proverbial hotcake, iOS lost market share in the worldwide smartphone market in the third quarter of 2011. What's remarkable is that sales of the iPhone actually grew during that time, according to sales information from Gartner. As noted in a post on ...

Apple the most desired PC in China

by Steven Sande (Nov 10th, 2011)

China is one of Apple's most desirable markets, due to the growing middle class and the huge population base of over 1.3 billion people. It appears that the love goes both ways, as Macs are considered to be the most desirable brands of personal computer in China. Investment firm Morgan ...

10 percent of US mobile phones are iPhones; Apple earns half of all industry profits

by Chris Rawson (Nov 4th, 2011)

Two reports have come out which show the immense impact Apple's iPhone has had on the mobile market. The first report from comScore indicates that one in ten mobile customers in the US owns an iPhone of some kind. That's not just smartphone customers; that's all mobile customers. Given that ...

Microsoft exec says Windows phone is cure for iPhone monotony

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 10th, 2011)

Andy Lees, President of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, believes the time is now for Windows Phone 7 to gain some ground on its competiton. Lees see Android as chaotic with too many choices, and the Apple iPhone 4S as a missed opportunity because it offers only a minor improvement in hardware ...

"Apple Shock" and its effect on the IT industry

by Steven Sande (Oct 7th, 2011)

It's well known in the Wintel PC industry that Apple has been kicking butt and taking names. Starting last year, Apple's iPad and second-generation MacBook Air started doing some serious damage to many of its competitors. Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien has a name for this -- ...

Report suggests iOS hit all-time market share high

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2011)

Last week, TUAW reported on the recent rise in the market share of Mac OS X. The numbers, compiled by Net Applications, show a rising acceptance of Mac OS X in the global marketplace. Now Net Applications is reporting that iOS has hit an all-time market share high of 54.65 percent. As you can ...

Chitika: Mac OS X market share jumps in September

by Steven Sande (Sep 27th, 2011)

Chitika Insights grabs online advertising data to monitor and report on Internet trends, one of which is the market share of various computer operating systems. There was a surprise reported for Mac OS X in the latest report -- the market share for Apple's desktop/laptop OS climbed 1.039 to ...

Apple devices dominate airport Wi-Fi

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2011)

Anyone who has spent time around an airport recently has probably noticed that Apple devices -- particularly the iPhone and iPad -- seem to be everywhere. Ina Fried at the Wall Street Journal reports that Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo has the stats to prove that Apple devices are now dominating ...

Report suggests AirPlay affecting iTunes online movie share

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 24th, 2011)

At least, that's the conclusion research firm IHS came to upon seeing growth in Apple's online video sales. Apparently Apple, up against competition from Walmart (Vudu) and Amazon, saw its market share go up from 64.9% in the first half of 2010 to 65.8% in the first half of 2011. Not exactly ...

Gartner: Apple's global mobile phone share almost doubled in Q2 2011

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 11th, 2011)

Gartner's numbers were released for the second quarter in 2011 and Apple continues to show strong growth. The smartphone manufacturer is number four globally in the mobile phone market trailing Nokia, Samsung and LG. Its market share almost doubled from last year, climbing from 2.4 in 2011. ...

Apple portables set to dominate latter half of 2011

by Chris Rawson (Aug 8th, 2011)

According to Fortune, financial analysts from Deutsche Bank are predicting a rise in Apple's global portable computer sales for the rest of this year. If the iPad is included in those numbers, the rise is downright astonishing, taking Apple from last place among the six vendors studied all the ...

Survey: iPhone retention rate at 94%, interest in iPhone 5 high

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 1st, 2011)

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster suggests interest in the iPhone remains strong. In a recent research note, he points to a small survey of 216 mobile phone owners in Minneapolis that shows 64% will buy an iPhone as their next handset. Breaking it down, 94% of iPhone owners plan to buy ...

Study reveals Apple surpasses RIM in US smartphone share

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Apple is now the #2 mobile platform in the US with 26.6% market share. Apple rose 1.4 percentage points and inched past RIM which now holds 24.7% of the US market. Similar to Apple, Android also gained market share grabbing another 5.1 percentage points to climb to 38.1% market share. Rim took ...

iPad grabs 1% of global browser share, 25% of US mobile browsing

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 4th, 2011)

Not surprisingly, recent statistics from New Applications, a web analytics firm, show that many people are using their iPad to browse the web. The iPad now accounts for 1% of the global web browser market and 2% in the US. This number has steadily increased since the original iPad debuted in ...