When 8% Market Share Is News

[MTI]

January 02, 2008
(Computerworld) --

Mac's market share reached 8% during the last two days of 2007, a record mark that a Web measurement company yesterday called "phenomenal."

For December as a whole, Apple Inc.'s machines accounted for 7.3% of all systems that browsed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications Inc., up significantly from 6.8% during November. At the beginning of 2007, Net Applications pegged Mac OS X's share at 5.7%, putting the one-year growth rate at about 28%.

But it was the post-Christmas surge that really put the Mac on the market share map. "The really good news for Apple came at the end of the month," said Net Applications in a write-up on its Web site, which noted that during Dec. 30 and Dec. 31, Mac OS X-powered machines accounted for 8.01% of those monitored online. "This represents a phenomenal increase of 18% from November for the Mac."

Microsoft Corp.'s Windows still loomed large on the operating system landscape during December. But its market share of 91.8% was down from November's 92.4%. Since 2007's start, Windows has lost slightly more than 2% market share, reported Net Applications.

Among the flavors of Windows that Net Applications tracks, the six-year-old Windows XP remains king, accounting for 76% of the market. Windows Vista, however, cracked the 1-in-10 barrier for the first time in December, ending the year with 10.5% of the market.

Meanwhile, Apple's browser more than paced the growth of Mac OS X. Safari's share stood at 5.6% in December, up 32% from the 4.3% at the beginning of 2007, said Net Applications.

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox, which is available in versions for Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux, accounted for a record 16.8% of all browsers tracked last month, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer's share slipped to 76% from November's 77.4%. IE has lost nearly 4% market share since the start of 2007, with the overwhelming portion of that being snapped up by Firefox and Safari.

[Bill Wood]

Based on the last 30 days...We show that 8.14% of the visitors to MercedesShop use a Mac.

89.78% use Windows
8.14% use Mac
1.68% use Linux

Here's the Windows breakdown:
82.37% XP
10.51% Vista
4.98% 2000
1.22% 98
0.56% Server 2003
0.21% ME
0.09% CE
0.03% 95
0.02% NT

As far as the Mac users are concerned
53.94% have a PPC cpu
46.06% have an Intel cpu

Here's the breakdown by screen resolution:
42.18% 1024x768
14.74% 1280x1024
12.95% 1280x800
5.54% 1440x900
5.52% 800x600
4.24% 1680x1050
3.59% 1152x864
1.80% 1280x768
1.72% 1600x1200
1.69% 1400x1050

[Dee8go]

That's interesting. So, all of that is evident from your side of things?

[Botnst]

I think he can see my polka-dotted undies, too.

B

[Bill Wood]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

That's interesting. So, all of that is evident from your side of things?

Yes. I get the info from Google Analytics.

[Bill Wood]

Here's the connection info for MercedesShop visitors:

38.18% Cable
27.72% DSL
8.74% T1/ISDN
4.00% Dialup
21.36% Unknown

[Dee8go]

Originally Posted by Botnst

I think he can see my polka-dotted undies, too.

B

God help him! That's a high price to pay for being the Webmaster . . .

[Bill Wood]

By country
78.60% United States
5.68% Canada
3.10% United Kingdom
1.41% Australia
0.95% Germany
0.58% Netherlands
0.50% Finland
0.49% Norway
0.39% Bulgaria
0.36% France

For the USA
17.28% California
7.10% Texas
7.05% New York
5.40% Florida
3.83% Pennsylvania
3.71% Georgia
3.48% Illinois
3.47% North Carolina
3.38% Virginia
3.19% Washington

For California
4.50% Monterey Park
4.09% San Diego
3.74% Los Angeles
3.11% Alameda
2.89% Maywood
2.50% West Hollywood
2.23% San Francisco
2.10% Beverly Hills
1.87% San Leandro
1.79% Carmichael

The amount of information Google Analytics provides is mind numbing.

[Dee8go]

Okay, but can you tell what color drawers Bot has on today?

[Bill Wood]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

Okay, but can you tell what color drawers Bot has on today?

Not until tomorrow (there's a 24 hour delay in getting the data from Google)

[MTI]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

Okay, but can you tell what color drawers Bot has on today?

They come in more than one color? What's he got . . . Victoria Secret?

[Dee8go]

That's a disturbing thought!

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by Webmaster

Not until tomorrow (there's a 24 hour delay in getting the data from Google)

Don't worry, I'm still on last week's.

[Skid Row Joe]

Good stuff, Bill, Thanks!

Doesn't look like Microsoft is hurting for market-share........anytime soon.......

[Chris Bell]

Jeez, there's somebody out there still using Windoze 95.
Upgrade for gods sake
Don't you know Bill Gates really needs the money