Mac, iPhone shares together hit 10.41 percent
Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer continue to bleed users in their inexorable slide from dominance as Apple, the economy be damned, continues to stack on market share.
December was very good to Apple and, according to Net Application’s latest data, January was almost half as good. That is, Web traffic attributable to users of the Mac OS saw a rise of 0.76 (December) and 0.30 points last month, which taken together means users of the fairer platform increased by a full percent in just two months—score!
Moreover, check out the iPhone and its ever growing slice of Web traffic, which is nearing one half of one percent of all web traffic as measured by Net Applications. However, what that number doesn’t tell us is what share iPod touch users now account for as Apple’s other handheld and the iPhone share the same operating system and are reported as one result.
• Windows—88.26 percent (88.68 percent)*
• Mac OS—9.93 (9.63)
• Linux—0.83 (0.85)
• iPhone—0.48 (0.44)See also: Apple loses U.S. market share
* Windows has lost 1.78 points of share since October
It bears remembering that Net Applications and AdMob have documented a tripling of iPod touch generated Web traffic in December. Oh, and add up Mac OS and OS X Mobile together and you get 10.41 percent—a new high.
Browser war turning into a rout
On the browser front, both Firefox and Safari added significant share, and Google’s Chrome even managed to tack on a bit, as well. That said, aside from 0.01 percent given up by Opera (more than likely within Net Applications margin of error), Internet Explorer gave up 0.6 (January) and 1.62 points in December for a whopping total of 2.22 percent of the browser market lost in just two months.
01 Internet Explorer—67.55 percent (68.15 percent)
02 Firefox—21.53 (21.34)
03 Safari—8.29 (7.93)
04 Chrome—1.12 (1.04)
05 Opera—0.70 (0.71)
When Net Applications’ data for December was announced, it was widely believed that the Mac OS and perhaps even Firefox would give back some of the gains as people got back to work (ie office computers run Windows and IE) in January. That obviously hasn’t happened as the Mac and Firefox have continued to add.
So, is anyone still wondering why Microsoft wants to push out Windows 8 early? Hmm…
What’s your take?
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