Net Applications’ Operating System stats for December 2007 show Apple’s Mac hit a new all-time high with 7.30% share of the operating systems visiting Net Applications’ network of websites worldwide. The stats also show Apple iPhone with 0.12% share, up from 0.09% in November and 0.04% in July. The data is aggregated from 40,000 websites that are predominantly ecommerce or corporate sites.
Net Applications’ December 2007 Operating System Stats:
Microsoft Windows: 91.80% (vs. NOV: 92.42%, JAN: 93.33%)
Apple Macintosh: 7.30% (vs. NOV: 6.80%, JAN: 6.22%)
Linux: 0.63% (vs. NOV: 0.57%, JAN: 0.35%)
Apple iPhone: 0.12%
Playstation: 0.03%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%
SunOS: 0.01%
Net Applications’ Operating System Market Share for December 2007:
Net Applications’ December 2007 Operating System Stats by Version:
Windows XP: 76.97%
Windows Vista: 10.43%
Mac (Intel): 4.01%
Mac (PPC): 3.28%
Windows 2000: 2.66%
Windows 98: 0.70%
Linux: 0.57%
Windows NT: 0.57%
Windows ME: 0.40%
Apple iPhone: 0.12%
Windows CE: 0.06%
iPod: 0.02%
Series60: 0.02%
PSP: 0.02%
Pike: 0.02%
Windows 95: 0.02%
Hiptop: 0.02%
Web TV: 0.01%
PLAYSTATION 3: 0.01%
SunOS: 0.01%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%
Unknown: 0.01%
Net Applications’ Apple Macintosh Stats for 2007:
JAN: 6.22% (Intel: 1.88%, PPC: 4.34%)
FEB: 6.38% (Intel: 2.09%, PPC: 4.29%)
MAR: 6.09% (Intel: 2.14%, PPC: 3.95%)
APR: 6.24% (Intel: 2.33%, PPC: 3.91%)
MAY: 6.48% (Intel: 2.52%, PPC: 3.96%)
JUN: 6.03% (Intel: 2.49%, PPC: 3.54%)
JUL: 5.99% (Intel: 2.62%, PPC: 3.37%)
AUG: 6.18% (Intel: 2.83%, PPC: 3.35%)
SEP: 6.63% (Intel: 3.24%, PPC: 3.39%)
OCT: 6.58% (Intel: 3.43%, PPC: 3.16%)
NOV: 6.80% (Intel: 3.59%, PPC: 3.22%)
DEC: 7.30% (Intel: 4.01%, PPC: 3.28%)
Net Applications’ Operating System Market Share Trend for Apple Macintosh for January 2006 to December 2007:
More details can be seen via Net Applications’ here.
MacDailyNews Note: As always, the actual percentage numbers are not as important as the trends shown since all “market share” reports have unique measurement sources. Net Applications, for example measures 40,000 corporate and ecommerce websites — how many of which are restricted to WIndows and/or IE, if any, we do not know. Again, what’s important is the trend (and consistent data points). The trend shows Apple’s Macintosh ascending.
Certainly, good news. And, things keep getting better. 2008 will be very strong.
The tsunami is coming. You can see the top of the wave approaching shore. By the time MS creates the next version of Windows in 6 years, they will have less market share than Apple. How sad? We all need to shed a tear.
I would guess that ol’ Zune Tang and Thurrott will have to change their figures from 3% to 7.3%…
MW: Suddenly
How do they mean all time high? I remember when they had 12% of the market, in 94 or 95. Or do they mean OS X?
the key number for Macs is intel macs — 3.5. Going to 4 from npv to December
Interesting. Vista is at just 10%. It’s quite plausible that MacOS will overtake it if things keep to their trends. That ought to be a lot of fun, should it happen.
Joel has a good point. This survey should tend to favor Enterprise browsers, yet the year-old Vista has less than three times the hits of OSX-on-Intel. Too bad they don’t break that down Tiger vs Leopard! It would be sweet to see the year-old vs the quarter-old results.
Dave
Windows must die.
Sent from my iPhone.
Almost doubled in two years! Wow!
When I bought into OSX back in 2001, I did so despite worries that Apple might collapse having just over 2% share at that time and had been falling for years. Some said OSX might alienate the OS9 faithful and be Apple’s kiss of death. So to me each uptick is damn good news! Very reassuring. Even if Apple never achieved any more share (which they will), this percentage alone shows Apple is guaranteed to be a viable competitor for another decade at least.
I am curious: I see the iPhone, and Windows CE, but where is Blackberry?
That’s going to be something like 15 % in a year from now… Software and web developers can’t ignore us now!
@YS Software and web developers can’t ignore us now!
They can, but they won’t.
This changes nothing. The reason MACs appear to be at 7% is that the 3% of MACs out there are being recorded two or three times. The IT guys where I work tell me MACs have a history of crashing which tells me these machines are probably on a website, crash, then go back to the website after a restart so they’re counted twice. As usual the MAC sheep are falling for lies and poorly researched data to support their dying platform. Give it up already. Microsoft won, Apple lost.
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Zunetang – Is that all you got? So weak, then again you are using a PC + Zune….. Hows that social thing going for you? And you thought it would be a babe magnet……hehe!
ZT – Squirt me.
i am pretty sure the linux numbers are not representative, and as the MDN take says it is the trend that matters….
….still, it will be interesting to see the day the iPhone has more users than linux!
Windows MUST die. Sent from my iPod touch.
The stats are all a lot of unreliable nonsense.
Read this link for a more technical explanation of why:-
http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/webstats/
Cheers
What interests me with these statistics is Linux at 0.63% compared to iPhone at 0.12%. Looking at the trends, iPhone may soon catch and pass Linux!
**Public Service Announcement**
Zune Tang = satire.
macromancer …. we get it …. but Zune has just become repetitive and boring … no need for a PSA …. maybe a need for new material for Zune …
You’d think that Zune Tang would be tired of it by now. But apparently he is not. Allow him his fun. It’s interesting sometimes to see some people’s reactions to him.
Just remember, some day Zune Tang will end. And every once in a while someone will post “Hey, I wonder what ever happened to old Zune Tang, that wild and crazy troublemaker. I miss him.”
And then we will all reminisce over all of the whacky comments Zuny used to make. Like others who have come and gone here, he will be missed and fondly remembered. We love ya man.
Definitely, not surprising. Apple is very strong.
Certainly the scale will beginning to tip in 2008;
as more of the world sees Apple as quality devices, with easy of use, that offer a customers the difference, elegant solutions to design in and out — making it the better choice.
Yes, the tsunami of Apple is building momentum.
What would have been NICE to see…
the break down of Windows in that pie chart.
Though spelt out… a detailed chart with XP, Vista, ME, and all the variants of Pocket PC, telephony baloney Windows CE or whatever.
I would have loved to see iPhone 0.12% verses the others.
And I do see Windows CE at 0.06%
I understood JOBS hoping to achieve 1% world cellular market share… by 2008 or end of.
Apple has a HELL of a lot to do if this chart reflects the same type of stats Apple hopes for.
Happy still. HNY!