Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops below 90%
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... monthly surveys are conducted by sampling browser data from some 160 million visits to Web sites operated by firm’s clients. Although the company describes the results as “market shares,” Net Applications does not actually measure share of market in the traditional sense of sales revenue or unit sales. It does, however, provide a consistent methodology by which to measure browser and operating system trends. To see Net Applications’ Nov. 1 report, click here. The results are summarized in the tables below. These monthly reports, however, mask considerable ...

Mac Web Share Hits Record 8.82%, Windows Dips Below 90%
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — According to a Net Applications web survey issued overnight Monday, Apple’s (AAPL) cut of the “Internet pie” increased in November as the Mac and iPhone hit record numbers in Internet share. Naturally, this comes at the cost of Microsoft’s web presence, with Windows’ Internet share dropping below 90% for the first time ever and Internet Explorer’s market share coming in at less than 70%. After losing traction in October, Mac computers share of Web hits grew 7.43% in the month of November to a record ...

Mac internet share hits record 8.87%
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... 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. TUAWMac internet share hits record 8.87% originally appeared on ...

The Mac continues its increase on the Web
HardMac.com — New figures of the market share of the computers on the American Web have been announced. Mac, as always, increases a bit, passing from 8,21% in October to 8,87% in November. Even though the difference is only 0,66 points, it represents an enormous gain for the Mac. The iPhone also continues to progress, passing from 0,33% to 0,37%. It should be noted that Windows regressed in a significant way, going from 90,46% to 89,62% while Linux also increases from 0,71% to 0,83%. If Apple appears the big winner over the period, it is ...

Mac, Firefox online use reach highest levels yet
Obsessable News Feed — ... The small fraction of internet users accessing web sites from Apple computers has reached a new high point, with 8.87% of all web hits last month coming from users on Macs. The figures provided by Net Applications show the Mac numbers rising from 8.21% in October. This assessment doesn't include iPhone users, who account for an additional 0.37% of web hits. Microsoft seems to be taking the largest market share hit, losing in both the proportion of internet users getting online with Windows machines and in the proportion of users browsing with Internet Explorer. Opera's ...

Windows market share melting; global warming suspected
GMSV — ... to a level not seen since the days of Windows 3.11 in the early ’90’s. Now, before you go breaking out that bottle of cognac you’ve been saving to celebrate the end of the Microsoft hegemony, note that this slide still leaves Windows, by Net Applications’ tally, with a market share of 89.62 percent , a level most companies can’t even dream of. Still, that’s down from a high around 97.5 percent back around 2002-2003, and a drop of 2.8 percentage points in the past 12 months alone. The major beneficiary of the defections was Apple; Net Applications said the Mac OS market share ...

Windows market share reaches new low - 89.6%
Download Squad — ... If you gauged the market share of various operating systems by counting the number of Macs vs PCs you see in the typical urban coffee shop, you'd probably believe that Apple and Microsoft were duking it out like Republicans and Democrats in a close US ...

Sun upgrades OpenSolaris, signs OEM deal with Toshiba
Open Source — ... Is vendor optimism for Linux and OpenSolaris warranted? According to Net Applications, Sun’s proprietary Solaris and OpenSolaris own collectively a miniscule .01 percent share of the operating system market. Linux, for its part, only owns .83 percent market share. ...

Apple’s Internet share registered strong gains in Dec.
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... Applications. Net Applications’ monthly surveys are conducted by sampling browser data from some 160 million visits to Web sites operated by the firm’s clients. Although it describes the results as “market shares,” the Web metrics company does not actually measure share of market in the traditional sense of sales revenue or unit sales. It does, however, provide a consistent methodology by which to gauge browser and operating system trends. To see its Jan. 1 report, click here. The results are summarized in the table below. Hidden in these ...

Mac web share nears 10% in December
AppleInsider — ... Published: 10:40 AM EST In spite of fears of a late-year plunge, Apple has again beat its own market share record in December and now has a record 9.6 percent of web traffic as Microsoft's own influence continues to fall. Net Applications' December results show Mac OS X surging from just under 8.9 percent in November to the new 9.6 percent mark for the tens of thousands of sites monitored by the web tracking firm. The figure is an all-time high for Apple and a significant jump from the same period a year before, when the Mac maker held 7.3 percent. Its iPhone also made ...

Apple nabs 10% share in December market share survey
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — This month's market share results from Internet tracking firm Net Applications show Apple collecting 10 percent market share, while Windows' share continues to slowly erode. Mac OS X gained nearly another point in December, up to 9.63 percent. Meanwhile, Windows lost another point, dropping to 88.68 percent. iPhone OS also made a small gain, going from 0.37 to 0.44 percent. For its part, Linux more or less held steady. If you look at the iPhone and iPod touch as pocket-sized mobile computers (which they are), over 10 percent of the hits to Net Applications "member sites" in ...

Apple market share tops 10%, Windows share lowest since tracking began
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... NetApplications, the company that tracks browser and operating system market share for a variety of sites across the Internet, released its data for December 2008. According to ...

Mac web share hits record 9.9 percent in January
AppleInsider — ... Published: 11:40 PM EST Even as the economy has continued to falter, Apple's share of web users has climbed up to a landmark 9.93 percent in the first month of 2009 while Windows' own share continues to slide downwards. Web tracking data compiled from tens of thousands of websites by Net Applications shows Apple reaching the all-time high with an 0.3 percent bump to the number of Macs making page requests. The web firm doesn't explain the increase, which comes despite fears of a ...

Apple Hardware Market Share Over 10% in USA
HardMac.com — According to MarketShare, the number of Apple hardware connected to the internet keeps growing in USA. A bit less than 10% (9.93%) of internet-connected computers are Mac hardware units, while the iPhone represents now 0.48%. In other words, more than 10% of internet connected units are Apple hardware. Apple marketshare increased by 1.5% compared to the previous month, a more than substantial performance. We are curious to know at which level Apple marketshare will stabilize or at which pace it will keep growing. This study also indicates that Windows ...

Report: Apple nabs (almost) 10% market in January
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... Despite predictions that Apple's market share would slide after the holidays, the latest market share numbers from Net Applications shows Mac OS X gaining slightly while Windows continues to slide. ...

Apple market share continues to climb, Windows drops
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... 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. ...

9.9 percent of all people on the web use a Mac now…
The Next Web — ... Or 9.93% to be exact. All according to research firm Market Share. Last year the same research estimated the Apple share of the market at 7.57 percent. Not bad in todays economy. ...

Net stats show Apple market share near 10 percent
MacUser — ... Even in this slowed-down economy, it looks like Apple is doing some things right. According to new figures from the analysis firm Net Applications , Apple's market share is now just under the 10 percent mark. Of course, this study isn't totally scientific, as they use a certain set of websites to monitor OS and browser usage. Apple has been above eight percent for three months in a row now— ...

Net stats show Apple market share near 10 percent
Macworld — ... Even in this slowed-down economy, it looks like Apple is doing some things right. According to new figures from the analysis firm Net Applications , Apple's market share is now just under the 10 percent mark. Of course, this study isn't totally scientific, as they use a certain set of websites to monitor OS and browser usage. Apple has been above eight percent for three months in a row now— ...

Microsoft vs. Apple: Beware of your ‘killer instinct’
The Apple Core — ... to work at Microsoft. After a few months they would talk as if Microsoft and their department were under attack, that the company was Number 2 in the market and not the de facto monopoly that it is. Going “reptilian, bloodthirsty” would take advantage of the paranoid corporate culture already in place at Microsoft. Next, who knew that the Mac had so much pull? No doubt, the return of the Macintosh is an amazing story. However, let’s put that success into context. According to the latest Net Applications statistics , the Mac has a 9.93 percent market share and Windows has 88.26 ...

Apple’s Net share slipped in February
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... The numbers are still in flux, but preliminary figures released Sunday morning by Net Applications show Apple’s (AAPL) Internet market share dropping a couple percent in February. One chart shows Mac OS X with a 9.61% share, down from 9.93% in January. Another puts the share at 9.71%, down 2.22% for the month. The latter seems consistent with other data in the report and is likely to withstand review. In a separate report, the Web metrics company took its first detailed look at mobile Web browsing and found the iPhone with a ...

Apple gives up a little Internet usage share
Webware.com — ... The Mac OS had been hovering around the 10 percent mark among operating systems accessing the Web. But in its Operating System Market Share report for February, Net Applications showed the Mac OS at 9.71 percent, down from 9.93 percent in January. Meanwhile, Microsoft Windows' Internet share increased to 89.37 percent from 88.26 percent in January. ...

Is IE8 the Vista of Web browsers?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... what Vista did for Microsoft’s monopoly position on the PC desktop. What am I talking about? Let’s go to the pie charts below the fold. According to Net Applications, which does a pretty good job of tracking who’s doing what on the Internet, this is what Microsoft’s share of the OS market looked like two years ago — a couple months after Vista’s worldwide release — and what it looks like today: In two years, a 93% market share has shrunk to 89%. Moreover, Vista only ...

MarketShare Unveils Figures for March
HardMac.com — ... As every months, figures related to the market share of computer OS used to browse the US web have been collected and analyzed by MarketShare. In March, Apple marketshare moves up from 9.61% to 9.77%. Windows keeps dropping slowly, from 88.41% to 88.14%. The iPhone OS remains stable will 0.49% a quite big achievement for a non-computer OS. Regarding web browser, Safari market shares increases from 8.02% to 8.23%.  ...

iPod touch Net share grew 36% in April
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... Apple doesn’t break out iPod touch sales in its quarterly reports, but COO Tim Cook characterized it as a “runaway hit” during the company’s second quarter earnings call last week and reported that sales had doubled year over year. He also released enough information for analysts to calculate that Apple has sold at least 17.42 million units since the iPod touch was launched in Sept. 2005. To see Net Application’s May 1 report, click here. The month-to-month comparisons are summarized in the table below. ...

Too Big to Fail or Nowhere to Go But Down? 5 Companies That Dominate [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... OK, maybe this one is a little too obvious. Microsoft’s Windows is perhaps the most dominant tech product in existence today. The various flavors of Windows own 93.04 percent of the worldwide operating system market, with Apple a distant second. The company might be giving up ground to Firefox, but Internet Explorer still has more than ...