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Apple's low market share but yet huge growth rate just tells you that AAPL has a very large amount of growth ahead of it.

$600 AAPL in two or three years is not at all far fetched.

With the advent of Mobile Safari, these numbers are going to be climbing pretty high, pretty quick!!!

Dec 01, 07 - 01:50 pm Comment from: ken1w

When is the Windows version of Safari 3 going to lose the "beta" label? The version that comes with Leopard and Tiger 10.4.11 are no longer in beta status (and it seems pretty solid from my experience). Not that I really care too much, but Windows Safari may also bump the stats up.

Dec 01, 07 - 03:11 pm Comment from: Ampar

WebTV sure was a good idea. Who's the heavily medicated mental patient that won't give up on it? Or is it a Senator from Alaska?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes#Citations_on_The_Daily_Show

Dec 01, 07 - 03:42 pm Comment from: alansky

Just goes to show you what lame-brains most computer users really are. According to these results, over 77% of them are still using the worst, most out-dated web browser in the universe.

Dec 01, 07 - 03:58 pm Comment from: Basil Ganglia

Yeh, at this rate they should be in IE's position in 2068. Hope my grandchildren live long enough.

Dec 01, 07 - 04:35 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

How do they know which browser is being used? And don't bother with the basic "the browser identifies itself", because it doesn't. Not really. The browser passes an ID Code to the server, on entry, but that must then be interpreted by the server. And, the ID can be spoofed. AND, some servers do not recognize some codes.
My wife's web site is hosted by Earthlink. They provide stats. Among these are Platform and Browser. They tell me they never heard of Safari but see many people using Macs with IE6 and IE7! Now, just about everyone reading this is fully aware that the last version of IE compiled for the Mac is 5.x, so what is Earthlink seeing? I've pretty much concluded that every Mac visitor using "IE6 or 7" is a Safari user. That's a couple hundred visitors a day, just north of 10%.
If these guys are not much better than Earthlink, these stats are questionable. I mean, more questionable than they otherwise would be based on the selection of the web sites monitored.
Dave

Dec 01, 07 - 05:00 pm Comment from: macaholic

I had an issue with browser display anf Classmates.com. They told me they only support the 2 most popular browsers, IE and Netscape. I called 'bullshit' (literally) on that. I told they need to check their stats, and if they were to only support the 2 most popular browsers then they need to change their list. Oddly enough,the problem went away shortly after that.

When is the Windows version of Safari 3 going to lose the "beta" label?

When it's included in a paid version of OSX/PC of course.

After all that's what happened to "BootCamp" right?

How do they know which browser is being used?

It must be all the Apple fanatics on Windows machines at work using a web proxy to spoof the browser id to inflate the numbers.

What a good idea...Ballmer would give birth to a monkey for sure.

Script kiddies?

Dec 02, 07 - 09:35 am Comment from: Reality Check

Why does anyone care about this? It's just a frigging browser.

In next week's not-to-be-missed revelation, MDN brings us the percentage break down of FTP clients and bit torrent applications. I, for one, can't wait!

Dec 02, 07 - 08:28 pm Comment from: toby

I'm amazed there's still people using Web TV.

One thing to take into account is that Opera reports itself as Internet Explorer by default, so you can subtract at least 2% from IE's numbers for that. Remember not too long ago when IE had 95% and people were saying there was no way, no how, that Firefox would ever even reach 10%?

I'd like to see stats for browser ratios over a 24-hour or 7-day period. After all, I browse during the work day on Internet Explorer (no choice - we can only do Windows at work, as no one in the medical information industry supports Apple, although I actually prefer it to Safari and Firefox, for overall convenience and ease of use), but at night and weekends it's Safari on my home computer (as IE on the Mac is no longer supported).

But I'd be curious to know - does the Safari ratio go up at night and on weekends, when everyone uses their home Macs?