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Jul 01, 08 - 11:37 am Comment from: HMCIV

Guess it's about time for Paul Thurrott or Rob Enderle to fret about iPhone's negligible web browsing Market Share.

Jul 01, 08 - 11:41 am Comment from: shen

so the day that both a) the iphone has more share than linux and b) os x has more than vista, party at my house!

Jul 01, 08 - 11:44 am Comment from: Eric

Ahhh.... I guess I can extrapolate the percentage of Safari users by cross referencing this report and the Safari one... that'll work.

The iPhone listed as an operating system! Look for it to grab a big piece of that operating system pie over the next year.

How can iPhone has such a market share? it does not even has a "Plastic keyboard"!!!

I cannot wait for the iPhone to pass Linux.

this is a good thing

In my opinion Mac OS X is the best OS on the market bar none.

Jul 01, 08 - 12:17 pm Comment from: Brau

The iPhone runs OSX so the two numbers should be combined meaning OSX has a 8.05% share. Well ahead of Linux, which makes those who predict it to take over the world n the near future look pretty idealistic.

Jul 01, 08 - 12:17 pm Comment from: MacLovin

So what are some of the most popular websites that this company owns/runs? IE Youtube, facebook, myspace, etc.

Mac users made up 10% of the visitors to my business website last month. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that figure double within the next year given the avalanche that is obviously just getting started.

These days folks actually seem to perceive me as intelligent when I recommend a Mac. The consumer mindset has changed radically in just the last year. Keep the ads running. It's working.

I worked with Linux (and Solaris and ...) before settling on OS X for my own use, but these numbers confirm that efforts to create a "desktop Linux" have come to naught. The votes are in, and the Mac has emerged as the thinking man/woman's alternative to Windows. Linux will live on in the back-room, but in its desktop version will remain a very niche product.

BTW, while working with my new iMac/Fusion workstation, I installed a copy of OpenSUSE. Given that I'm not a Linux developer I have to ask what it offers that OS X doesn't, and can't think of a damn thing.

Jul 01, 08 - 01:11 pm Comment from: Tommy Boy

@ HMCIV: This time next year the iPhone will have exceeded both the Linux and PPC market share.

@shen
I think you are reading it wrong. the iphone has .16% linux has .80% not .08%

June '07 Mac share was 6%
Juny '08 Mac share is 8%

if I'm doing my math correctly, that a 30% increase

Interestingly enough, Windows was at 93% in June 07, now down to 91% June 08.

I'd say things are headed in the right direction.

Jul 01, 08 - 01:46 pm Comment from: dallas

This is great news. I always like to see that line going up. But we still need more diversity. Two big companies owning everything is not that much better than one. I want to see it quickly break down so that no one has more than 10-15% market share.

Jul 01, 08 - 01:59 pm Comment from: dallas

oh and how about the poor .01% of the world still using Windows 95! Think about it, that's 100000 people in the world still using Windows 95. I am actually pretty impressed that their 12 year old Dells are still working.

Jul 01, 08 - 02:05 pm Comment from: shen

@jtc

Ummm, yes I read that. That is why I said when both happen.....

Interesting that Vista is only just over double the Mac figure which, considering the size of the Windows user base, and the year or so that Vista has been out, is pathetic

Jul 01, 08 - 05:02 pm Comment from: Cubert

Cue Windoze troll statement about Shitsa having a bigger market share than OS X.......

Jul 01, 08 - 05:39 pm Comment from: Basil Ganglia

Wish it was exponential growth instead of linear. Based on the data shown, growth is ~2% per year. Gonna take a long time to get to 20%. A lot can happen in the meantime. I know everyone keeps talking about an "explosion" and how Mac OS is going to "take over the world" and the like, but we're going to need to see accelerating growth not constant growth for that to happen. So far the growth is steady and gratifying but not accelerating. Just a little reality check.

Jul 01, 08 - 07:15 pm Comment from: shen

the growth was negative before the iPod. the growth has picked up since the iPhone. Vista helps still more.

the growth is linear now, but the perception is growing far faster. yes, a lot can happen in the mean time, but if the perception can be held, without losing ground, the future growth is near exponential.

i used to teach elementary computers. the school district was all windows. and the kids never questioned it.

today when i visit schools you can hear kids talking about how windows "sucks" every time something odd happens or someone can't find a menu. they openly tell me that they are buying a Mac when they can buy their own machine, as if defying me to argue the point. when i pull out my iPhone they freak out and gather around like i am the popular kid and not a 30 something former educator.

i am ok with linear growth for now, because i think it will be exponential in about 6-8 years. iCal that.

Jul 01, 08 - 07:28 pm Comment from: Cubert

Basil Ganglia and shen,
I think the curve will probably be an S-shaped curve when all is said and done. We are at the bottom of the S right now. There will be a period of exponential growth and then a leveling out.

Now, to go pick some basil from my garden.

Jul 01, 08 - 08:07 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Folks - be sure to look at it this way too

For each 1 of Us

9 of our Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Colleagues constantly suffer in Windoze Hell

Then add to that the "Stockholm Syndrome" (check MDN, lot of references)

Adds up to saying something about the general dysfunction and frustration in our Society and Culture




BC

I really shouldnt care...

But the idea of the iPhone overtaking all of Linux, twelve months from now, is fuckin hilarious.

Windows?
Who cares, most people don't have a choice. And Businesses don't have a choice. Apple will never be the dominant player.

But for us to have anything like 15% is amazing. That's almost the WHOLE consumer market.

The funny thing is, that there are about half as many iPhones in daily usage as Macs. Yet the numbers shown Macs to be much Higher market share of browser use. Could it be that these numbers don't really tell much about how many of each type of device is actually in use?