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Mac share of web browsing goes up after Windows 7 launch

by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on Nov 3rd, 2009

It may seem a little strange, or downright counter-intuitive, but Net Applications is reporting that Mac OS X's share of computers using the web grew from September to October this year, while Windows' share of browsers declined.

Windows (all versions of the OS) totaled 92.54% of computers browsing the web, a .25% drop, while Mac OS had a 5.27% share, up 2.73% from September. The iPhone, by the way, had a month to month increase of 5.71%.

The numbers come from tabulating visits to 160 million websites.

Windows 7 got 3% share in the daily tracking, largely at the expense of Windows XP. If Microsoft was depending on Windows 7 to quickly stop the Mac momentum, it hasn't happened yet, but at the same time, most Windows upgrades take place when new machines are bought.

Also, the general release of Windows 7 didn't happen until October 22nd, so the jump in Windows 7 on the internet wasn't available for most of October except for pre-release users.

[via Fortune Brainstorm Tech]

Tags: internet share, Mac OS X, Net Applications, NetApplications, Windows 7

Filed under: OS, Internet

Apple market share continues to climb, Windows drops

by Mel Martin (RSS feed) on Feb 2nd, 2009

They are not dramatic changes, but they are steady and heartening to the Apple universe of users and developers. The trend continues from December numbers, and for Apple, all the trends are good.

Net Applications, a company that tracks operating system and market share by looking at results from search engines, reports that Apple has a 9.93% share of OS users for January of 2009, up from 9.63% the previous month. Windows OS market share measured 88.26% in January, dropping slightly from 88.7% in December.

If you add in iPhone users (0.48%) to the Mac OS X data, the Apple market share is 10.41%, which again, is higher that last month.

Browser shares are also an interesting data point. Net Applications says Microsoft's Internet Explorer has the lowest market share since they began tracking browsers in 2005. IE users now comprise 67.6% of the browsers online. In the last 12 months, IE has dropped about 8%.

For the third month in a row, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome all gained market share at the expense of Microsoft. Safari's share of 8.3% is a record for Apple.

These numbers continue to be good news for Apple, a company trying to buck a nasty recession along with the rest of the industry.

Tags: browser share, market share, Net Applications, OS share

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet

Mac internet share hits record 8.87%

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Dec 1st, 2008

Apple 2.0's Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes some new Net Applications statistics that suggest 8.87 percent of all Internet users use a Mac: a new record.

Add to that the iPhone platform's 0.37 percent, and over one in eleven use an Apple product to browse the web. The iPhone gained 12 percent more users compared to the month before.

Also notable is that Windows users accounted for less than 90 percent of Internet users for the first time in recent memory. Also, market share for Internet Explorer dropped below 70 percent for the first time since its popularity surged in the late 90s.

Linux also gained ground, increasing almost 17 percent to 0.83 percent of all Internet users.

Net Applications tracks statistics from over 160 million visits to websites it monitors. The full report is here.

Tags: browser, internet, market, marketshare, net applications, NetApplications, share

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Internet, Apple

Mac OS X slips, iPhone rises in Net Applications survey

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Mar 2nd, 2008

This post is for Apple fans who enjoy obsessing over minutia. The latest Net Applications survey has been conducted and shows differing results for Mac OS X users and iPhone users.

Net Applications measures the percentage of users who visit some 40,000 web sites from a given operating system. In February, the number of Mac users dipped slightly to 7.45% from 7.57% in January, while the number of iPhone users rose to 0.14% from 0.13% in January (beating out the Playstation and Wii).

Windows still accounts for 91.58% of web users, according to the survey. What this means is A.) Most people have windows (we knew that), B.) Some people have Macs (we knew that), C.) iPhone users like to surf the web (we knew that) and D.) People love talking about very small percentages. Awesome.

[Via Macsimum News]

Tags: internet, iphone, mac os x, MacOsX, net applications, NetApplications

Filed under: Software, Cult of Mac, Internet, Apple

Safari use up 76 percent

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Apr 17th, 2006

safari use upThat's up 76 percent from last year. And we're still talking about a 3.19% browser market share, according to Net Applications. Of course, as stated on the Surfin' Safari blog, the hope (for Apple) is to see more WebKit-based browsers out there too. You may recall Nokia's S60 web browser is just such a beast. Whether or not a cell phone browser will make a dent in WebKit's market share? I'll let you decide that one. In the end, I can really only hope all this great market share business is going to make some developers out there (you know who you are) work a little harder to make their websites Safari-compatible. List the worst Safari offenders in the comments, and just ignore Google, where everything is beta. Besides, it could be worse: you could be using Opera.

Tags: market share, MarketShare, net applications, NetApplications, safari, survey, web

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