Net Applications’ “Market Share” has posted their operating system market share statistics for May 2007 showing Apple Macintosh share at 6.46% (3.95% for non-Intel-powered Macs and 2.51% for Intel-powered Macs). According to Net Applications’ measurements, Mac market share rose a quarter of a percentage point in a single month
Since August (4.33% total), Mac market share has risen 2.13 percentage points.
Net Applications’ “Market Share” stats August 2006 – May 2007:
(Month: non-Intel Macs + Intel-powered Macs = total Mac market share)
08/06: 3.71% + 0.62% = 4.33%
09/06: 3.88% + 0.84% = 4.72%
10/06: 4.09% + 1.12% = 5.21%
11/06: 4.10% + 1.29% = 5.39%
12/06: 4.15% + 1.52% = 5.67%
01/07: 4.34% + 1.88% = 6.22%
02/07: 4.29% + 2.09% = 6.38%
03/07: 3.94% + 2.14% = 6.08%
04/07: 3.89% + 2.32% = 6.21%
05/07: 3.95% + 2.51% = 6.46%
Net Applications’ “Market Share” uses a unique methodology for collecting this data. The company collects data from the browsers of site visitors to their exclusive on demand network of small to medium enterprise live stats customers. The sample size for these sites is more than 40,000 urls. The information published is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is summarized on a monthly basis. The websites in ther population represent dozens of countries in regions including North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia / Pacific Rim and Parts of Asia.
Reasons for Mac market share gains run the gamut from superior security vs. Windows, Apple’s growing retail store network, the iPod Halo Effect, award-winning design, Mac OS X, Mac-only applications such as iLife, ease-of-use, the Mac’s unique ability to run Mac OS X, Linux and Windows concurrently, word-of-mouth, excellent reviews, and more.
Net Applications’ May 2007 “Market Share” stats are here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Markkus" for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Different companies uses different methodologies, so the actual percentage figures aren’t as meaningful as the trends they show. The important point is that Net Applications’ measurements show that Mac’s share continues to increase.
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