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Steam releases Mac stats, share drops to 5%

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Steam has released its latest hardware survey results, and there's both good and bad news for us Mac gamers. The bad news first: Mac usage of the gaming service has apparently leveled off since the big debut a few months ago, and while the Mac share was originally around 8%, it appears the novelty ...

OkCupid: iPhone users have more sex

by Mike Schramm (Aug 11th, 2010)

I've been a huge fan of social dating site OkCupid's OkTrends blog for a while now. They're constantly sharing data (anonymized, of course) from their social site about what people find attractive and interesting in each other. The latest post has some fun information about cameras -- ...

Chrome now beating Safari in the US also

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2010)

StatCounter's US browser share page shows that Chrome has now overtaken Safari in these United States, moving up into third place for browser share, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. Astute TUAW readers among you will remember that Chrome already beat Safari once, but that was for the global ...

Apple gains 19% share of portable gaming market, 5% of everything

by Mike Schramm (Mar 24th, 2010)

Flurry's got lots of new data this week -- earlier, we heard that 44% of apps coming to the iPad are going to be games, and now they're saying that Apple is making huge headway into the gaming market overall. According to the latest numbers, the iPhone OS has nabbed 15% of the mobile game market ...

Sportacular updated for (fantasy) football

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2009)

I only follow a few sports teams, but for the teams I do follow, Sportacular (that's the iTunes link for the free version, and here's the paid version, sans ads) is definitely my app of choice. For nearly every professional sport you can think of, the app will track scores, plays, schedules, ...

Dept. of deja vu: MacBookMini found in Adium stats

by Mike Schramm (Apr 28th, 2009)

Reader Josh sent along this little note -- nothing too important, just something for you to file away for future reference. He just wanted us to point out that way, way down in the stats for Adium, the IM client for everyone who's not using iChat, there is one surreptitious listing for a ...

Friday Favorite: Woopra

by Dave Caolo (Apr 3rd, 2009)

A few months ago I was looking for an alternative to Google Analytics and found Woopra. It's still in beta so don't expect it to replace your current solution, but I'm having a lot fun using it on a few WordPress blogs. Setup is easy, if not a bit time consuming. First you've got to submit your ...

iPhone owners make up 14% of mobile game downloaders

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2009)

Hot off the heels of the news that the iPhone is dominating independent mobile gaming comes this interesting statistic: 14% of all people downloading mobile games are doing so on an iPhone. Market research group comScore says that not only is the iPhone picking up double digits of all game downloads ...

The iPhone's camera jumping up in the Flickr ratings

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2008)

This makes sense when you think about it, but it just seems really wild to me: in the list of Flickr's most popular cameras (compiled from the metadata attached to any photos that upload to the popular site), our favorite cell phone is climbing up the ranks. In fact, it had just recently overtaken ...

Stats: 99 cent apps aren't selling any better

by Mike Schramm (Dec 12th, 2008)

This is interesting: the prevailing argument about App Store pricing seems to be that developers are rushing down to 99 cents because apps priced there sell better (and developers say they can't fund really great apps priced there). But Mobile Orchard did a little number crunching, and their ...

J.D. Power survey ranks iPhone highest

by Robert Palmer (Nov 7th, 2008)

J.D. Power and Associates released the results of a survey yesterday, showing Apple's iPhone ranked highest in terms of customer satisfaction among 1,388 business wireless customers queried between August and September. Apple scored 778 (out of 1,000), higher than Blackberry-maker RIM (703) and ...

Survey: Apple riding high on news of economic woes

by Robert Palmer (Sep 15th, 2008)

A survey by ChangeWave says Apple is looking ahead to record sales for Macs, which smiles in the face of further declines in U.S. consumer spending. The survey polled 4,416 people between August 4 and August 12. If the poll is any indication, Apple will do well in the next three months, with 34 ...

iPhone browser share doubled since 3G launch

by Robert Palmer (Aug 19th, 2008)

According to HitsLink, the people who track web usage statistics, iPhone users account for about a third of one percent of web browsers on the Internet, the largest of any mobile platform. iPhone ranks fourth overall in terms of operating system market share, behind Windows, Mac, and Linux. On ...

Dear Auntie TUAW: Did I overstep my data limits?

by Erica Sadun (Aug 14th, 2008)

Cara Tia TUAW, I need your help please. I am in Mexico and have an iPhone with a 150 MB data plan and 300 minutes. My carrier says that I have passed my data limit and owe them around $150 usd. According to the Cellular Network Data on my iPhone, I have used 35MB and 83 minutes (Settings > ...

Three million iPhone 3Gs sold in first month

by Robert Palmer (Aug 11th, 2008)

A month ago, Apple was crowing about selling one million iPhone 3G handsets over its opening weekend. In a month, they've tripled that figure. According to Fortune and analyst Michael Cote of the (eponymous and nascent, from what I can Google) Cote Collaborative, Apple has already hit the three ...