“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.
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