Net Applications’ Operating System stats for June 2008 show Apple’s Mac hit a new all-time high with 7.94% share of the operating systems visiting Net Applications’ network of websites worldwide. The stats also show Apple iPhone with 0.16% share and Apple iPod with 0.04%. Net Applications noted last month, “Apple has confirmed that its online inventories for the original version of the iPhone are sold out in the U.S. and U.K. Apple appears to be clearing out its inventories in preparation for the iPhone 2.0 release. This, in conjunction with customers holding off purchasing until 2.0 is released has temporarily leveled off the iPhone usage share.” The data is aggregated from 40,000 websites that are predominantly ecommerce or corporate sites.
Net Applications’ June 2008 Operating System Stats:
Microsoft Windows: 90.89% (vs. MAY 2006: 95.09%)
– XP: 71.20%
– Vista: 16.14%
Apple Macintosh: 7.94% (vs. MAY 2006: 4.43%)
– Intel: 5.25%
– PowerPC: 2.69%
Linux: 0.80% (vs. MAY 2006: 0.40%)
Apple iPhone: 0.16%
Apple iPod: 0.04%
Playstation: 0.03%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%
SunOS: 0.01%
Net Applications’ Operating System Market Share for June 2008:
Net Applications’ Operating System Market Share Trend for Apple Macintosh for July 2006 to June 2008:
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. If anything, Net Applications is providing one measure of installed base, rather than “market share.” Again, what’s important is the trend (and consistent data points). The trend shows Apple’s Macintosh ascending.
Guess it’s about time for Paul Thurrott or Rob Enderle to fret about iPhone’s negligible web browsing Market Share.
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!
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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.
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.
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.
@ 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.
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.
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.
@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
Cue Windoze troll statement about Shitsa having a bigger market share than OS X…….
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.
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.
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.
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.