Mac, iPhone, Linux shares all rise
It is April 1, meaning another month gone by and time once again to check out the rising and falling fortunes of the big players on the internet. As has been the trend for years, Windows and Internet Explorer lost share and all the good guys—Mac, Firefox, Linux, iPhone, etc—gained share at Redmond’s expense.
When we last looked in February, the share of web traffic generated by Mac users fell a little bit. Still, such hiccups occur with some regularity, though the upward rise always resumes within a month (or two) and last month’s data proved the trend again.
That said, Net Application’s operating system data for March shows the Mac’s inexorable climb has again resumed with computers and handhelds running Apple’s Mac OS X and Mobile OS X both showing small gains. Likewise, Linux and Android, new to the OS Top 5, both tacked on share, nibbling away at Microsoft’ hegemony.
• Windows—88.14 percent (89.37percent)
• Mac OS—9.77 (9.71)
• Linux—0.90 (0.89)
• iPhone—0.49 (folded in with Mac last month)
• Android—0.07 (first time in survey)See also: Mac sales take double-digit plunge
And, being the optimists that we are here at Blorge, we like to add the Mac OS and Mobile OS X shares together so we can say that computers (the iPhone and iPod touch are handheld computers) running some version of Apple’s operating system account for 10 percent of web traffic.
Internet Explorer fading to irrelevance in Europe
Like the Mac’s share of web usage, Safari usage retreated a bit in February. Again, according to Net Applications browser data for March, Safari’s share bounced back nicely last month.
Moreover, according to the fine folks StatCounter, Firefox users are now more numerous than Internet Explorer users in Europe (see chart below, click for full size)
01 Internet Explorer—66.82 percent (68.17 percent)
02 Firefox—22.05 (21.96)
03 Safari—8.23 (7.42)
04 Chrome—1.23 (1.16)
05 Opera—0.70 (0.70)
It is especially interesting that Firefox hit this milestone, surpassing Internet Explorer, in the same month that Microsoft refreshed their default browser—a real slap down for IE 8. Moreover, Mozilla’s flagship product will soon—by the end of the Summer?—account for one-in-four browser installations overall and Safari likely will account for one-in-ten installations in the same timeframe, as well.
And there you have it—Mac, Safari, iPhone, Firefox, Linux—yet another good month for everyone except Microsoft and what could be bad about that…
What’s your take?
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