“Although up 39 Percent from March 2006, Mac OS market share as measured by market research firm Net Applications (Market Share) shows that Mac OS market share declined by 4.7 percent in March 2007. The total Mac OS X market share percentage for March 2007 comes in at 6.08 percent [vs. 6.38% in February]. The decline is the first monthly drop since June 2006,” Switch To A Mac reports.
Percent Increases
• Up 39.1 percent since March 2006
• Up 78.3 percent since March 2005
• Up 72.7 percent since April 2005 (Mac OS X Tiger launched April 29, 2005)
Switch To A Mac reports, “The 39 percent year-over-year increase for March 2007 has slowed coming in below the 48 percent growth observed in the first two months of 2007… Note that Net Applications splits Mac operating system data into two groups, ‘Mac OS’ and ‘MacIntel.’ ‘MacIntel’ represents Intel builds of the Mac OS X operating system… Mac OS comes in at 3.94 percent operating system share (down from Feb 2007’s 4.29 percent) while MacIntel is reported to have 2.14 percent market share (up from Feb 2007’s 2.09 percent).”
“Note that Vista jumped to 2.04 percent in March 2007, up from February’s 0.93 percent,” Switch To A Mac reports.
More in the full article, with graphs, here.
MacDailyNews Note: Last year showed very slight increase (basically flat) in Mac “market share” from February (4.31%) to March (4.37%) 2006. In 2005, February clocked in at 3.37% vs. March’s 3.41%. This is likely a seasonal occurrence. One month does not a trend make.
Related articles:
Net Applications: Apple’s Mac ‘market share’ continues rise, hits 6.38% in February 2007 – March 01, 2007
PiperJaffrey: Vista sales in March quarter ‘could put downward pressure on Mac market share’ – February 14, 2007
Net Applications: Apple’s Mac market share continues rise, hits 6.22% in January 2007 – February 01, 2007
Gartner: Apple’s U.S. Mac shipments up 30.6% year over year – January 18, 2007
Net Applications: Apple’s Mac market share continues rise, now at 5.39%, up 31% year-over-year – December 01, 2006
Apple’s Mac market share surges, up 35-percent year-over-year as growth accelerates – November 01, 2006
Analyst: Apple has ‘real shot at dramatically expanding Macintosh market share’ – October 31, 2006
Analyst: Apple Mac gains market share, the reason why is significant – October 26, 2006
IDC: Apple Mac attained 5.8% of U.S. market share in Q3 06 – October 18, 2006
Gartner: Apple Mac grabbed 6.1% of U.S. market share in Q3 06 – October 18, 2006
Gartner: Apple Mac grabbed 4.6% U.S. market share in Q2 06 – July 19, 2006
IDC: Apple Mac attained 4.8% U.S. market share in Q2 06 – July 19, 2006
That’s it. I’m switching to Windows. Not.
It’s called Leapard….
We are waiting for the cat to pounce!
Probably more likely due to anticipation of product line refresh within the next few months. Anyone holding back for the quad core? Multitouch monitor possibilities? Thinner iMac?
Maybe what Apple should do is start selling Macs with technology from 3 years ago and call them “Leopard Capable,” then offer us vouchers to get Leopard once it comes out.
Funny thing would be is that Leopard would run without a hiccup on 3 year old hardware!
Many of us are waiting for Leopard. I am waiting to buy a new server as well as a new notebook. Perhaps this is true across the board – certainly among existing Mac users.
Q: When an existing Mac user upgrades to a new Mac, what happens to his or her old Mac? Does it end up on eBay? Will it be bought by a switcher looking for a low-risk way to learn about Apple? The high resale value for Macs suggest that there is quite a demand for used ones.
So would it be true to say that significant sales of Intel/Leopard Macs to the Mac community can be expected to create lots more new mac users via the used mac market?
I waiting on Leopard for 5 Macs for the office. Many like me.
Yeah. I totally agree with the guys above. I know a few people waiting for leopard.
If Apple put a voucher in their current stock of Macs for a free Leopard upgrade then the market share figures would have risen. It makes sense.
In related news, scientists have discovered that this doesn’t matter.
derrr…
So M$ release a long waited for peice of SH*t and Mac fan boys ae holding back for 10.5
result….. the bleeding obvious
I’m personally holding off on two personal Mac purchases due to speedbumps and Leopard.
Duh.
This is the percentage of people browsing websites, so small increases in anticipation of Leopard don’t make sense. If people are waiting to upgrade, this will not impact these stats at all. These are cumulative measures of the amount of time people are using Macs to surf the web. Upgrading a machine wouldn’t increase this number unless a new Mac person bought your old one. This number correlates with how many Macs are being used right now.
On a similar note of small market share, currently, a small percentage of distributed computing is done by Macs – somewhere on the order of 2.6%. I know the number of Macs out there is higher than that (this article mentions 6 percent), so let’s show them that we are not as stingy as we currently appear to be.
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Presumably people put off buying PCs until Vista was released. When they bought new PCs their old ones presumably got handed down to someone else, increasing market share for Windows, and decreasing share for Mac…
New Mac mini, new iMacs, I have about 12 people waiting to jump, can’t wait.
Punkinhead-It’s called Leapard….We are waiting for the cat to pounce!
You’re waiting to leap hard for Leopard?
I’m waiting for the new imacs before I buy my daughters, i guess i’m not alone.
It’s called Leapard[sic]….
Many of us are waiting for Leopard.
While some first-time computer purchasers and switchers may be putting off a Mac purchase in anticipation of Leopard, I think this effect is rather small. I don’t think you guys (and gals) realize that most people just don’t follow this stuff very closely. My wife wants a new iMac, and I told her that we need to wait until Leopard is released. She looked at me like I was an alien. All she knows is that an iMac is cute and that the stuff that shows up on the screen looks different from her current computer.
Here’s my opinion. Mac sales haven’t slowed down much (at least according to the completely unbiased MDN!!), but Mac users are now able to run Windows on their Mac and access the internet through a Windows browser. The statistics can be explained by Mac users who own Apple hardware, but are running Windows some of the time.
New iMac for me when Leopard is released, also an iphone when released if I can get one.
Bye bye larda$$ …. HARDHAT!!! HARDHAT!!!
Yeah, I’m waiting on a new MBP and a Mini. I don’t want to pay for Leopard separately.
Bring back the “Apple is dying” series of stories
Apple is not dying, mmmmkay? – Mr. Mackie
Ditto here. I’m waiting for Leopard to replace my G5 iMac with an Intel version.
The newest cat is about to pounce. People are waiting. Sales lag. Happens every time there’s an impending release (or even an expected one).
A mere statistical glitch. Carry on!
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As Me in LA infers,
it’s not only Leopard – although that’s the main reason – but also the fact that virtually every type of Mac is due for speedbumps and/or model upgrades.
At the beginning of the year I thought this glitch in the graph would start in January and was going to be much bigger.
So this is confirmation of an ever-increasing number of first-time users.
Bryan “The statistics can be explained by Mac users who own Apple hardware, but are running Windows some of the time.”
So if people are buying Windows for their Macs I say. What’s the point? There is plenty of software for Mac OS X to do just about everything. Don’t artificially inflate the MS market share. They do plenty of that already. What about those who buy a PC with Windows only to erase the drive and install Linux. That still counts as Win Market share but it doesn’t add to the installed userbase. Another example is those who buy a PC with Vista only to buy a license of XP from a dealer who still has it and put that on instead. That is 2 licenses but only 1 being used. Again it is artificial. Installed userbase is what counts and Macs have a pretty big IUB. Because a Mac generally has a far longer useful lifespan.
I run a copy of Windows to test the websites I build in IE and tweak them. But I wil tell you one thing. It’s pure crap and I refuse to use it for anything else .Also. I can tell you now that I didn’t buy it. But I buy all of my other software. You’re probably thinking it’s bad of me for not buying it but I wouldn’t even test my work in IE if I didn’t have to. The time that it takes to add another CSS file for IE cuts into my profit on a job so if I bought Windows to run IE then that would be like rubbing salt in the wound. In my opinion, M$ should pay me to modify my sites for their shitty poor sub-standard browser.
Aarrrrggghhhh! I really hate MS !!!!!
Sorry guys. I just get so frustrated. I am considering giving up building sites because of IE. That’s how bad it gets sometimes…