Comments on: Is Apple Losing OS Share?

By: dk

dk — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:07:02 +0000

crap

“Gartner has released preliminary market share numbers for 3Q 2006 (calendar, Apple’s financial 4Q) which show Apple seeing substantial industry growth at 1.5%. Apple now ships 6.1% of all U.S. “PCs”, 4th in the industry behind Gateway (6.4%), HP (23%), and Dell (32.1%). Apple did not place in the top-5 in worldwide PC shipments, so that data was not available.”

By: dan

dan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:59:41 +0000

hmm. i wonder how many phone home sites run net apps software. maybe the user share is really 50/50, but the pcs tend to visit more often whether they like it or not..

By: Nader

Nader — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:05:48 +0000

Giving weight to NetApplications’ study would be very wrong Actually this also reminds me of the Alexa Rank, in which a lot of people believe very strongly.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:15:28 +0000

The article also stated that there were “accounting regularities” which I found amusing.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:13:30 +0000

Agreed re: Parallels/Bootcamp. Apple hardware now runs OSX and Windows operating systems. Only sales figures will give an accurate account of share at this point.

By: Sir Josmould Herringpole

Sir Josmould Herringpole — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:04:13 +0000

Suppose you used BootCamp or Parallels to browse? OK, you’d be a bit barking to do that but you might have just switched and think you require the ‘comfort’ blanket of a Windows environment. It may account for some of the figures.