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.

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:46:31 +0000

Actually, the difference between 4.33 and 4.35 is about 1/2 of a percent, so (assuming it isn’t statistical noise) it actually 0.5% decrease in its marketshare. Like if Windows fell from 80% to 40%, you’d say they suffered a 50% decrease, or their marketshare was halved.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:05:52 +0000

This just doesn’t map to my experience. I have had several friends who have switched to Macs in the past few months. And I’ve gotta report that many more are suddenly asking me for buying advice on Apple equipment. Rather than being the black sheep, I am suddenly the expert when it comes to Apple.

As they say, statistics don’t lie, but liers sure use statistics. I wonder what’s really behind those numbers? Perhaps someone with a check to cash?

By: dougg

dougg — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:45:23 +0000

How about the fact that many Mac users have Safari set to display a fake user agent? In my case (as I’m sure it would be for many otherS) I’ve got Safari set to pretend to be ‘Windows MSIE 6′ in order to be allowed to visit sites that claim not to work with other browsers (though they often do) and lock them out. Are Net Applications able to work around this or is it skewing their numbers?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:34:22 +0000

My non computer related blog tracks between 11-14% Mac OS traffic, according to Site Meter. Where did this 4% figure come from??

By: ok

ok — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:22:55 +0000

“Another feeble attempt at attacking Apple while they’re kicking ass and taking names…”

Apple people are allways so angry good news is right bad news is “feces”

By: Peter Smith

Peter Smith — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:10:43 +0000

As a slashdot person points out, and which I have verified: they are treating ‘mac os’ and ‘mac intel’ seperately. Mac intel is .6%, so the number is actually UP not DOWN

By: Jp

Jp — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:50:13 +0000

What a load of feces. I’m a consultant and see Windows users buying Macs like crazy nowadays. At least 50% of my business is Windows users switching to Macintosh.

This is bogus just like the supposed virsuses and WiFi crack. Another feeble attempt at attacking Apple while they’re kicking ass and taking names…