Net Applications Global Internet Usage Market Share shows iPhone usage is surging. The number of Apple’s iPhone 3G units sold and the corresponding surge in Internet usage market share is staggering.
Net Applications Operating System Usage Trend shows that iPhone usage grew quickly with the initial launch, but held steady for the 3-4 months prior to the release of iPhone 3G. This seems to be easily explained by the lack of supply prior to 3G’s launch, which would naturally stunt growth in usage.
With the release of iPhone 3G in July, its usage market share rose markedly from 0.16% to 0.19%. However, when tracking weekly numbers, the week of August 10 shows a huge surge in usage to 0.31% market share.
everybody do dee surf….do dee surf
What’s really impressive to me is that it looks like, soon, more people will be browsing the web using iPhones than using Linux.
92%. Gosh I wonder how they did that?
90% only surf to M$’s Windows help site.
I said it, so it’s true.
KILGORE
(bellowing)
You want’a surf, soldier?
Soldier nods yes meakly.
KILGORE
(continuing)
That’s good, boy, because it’s
either surf or fight.
I keep track of my dept’s web site using Google Analytics. Last month iPhones and iPod Touches started to show in the stats. Overall, it’s now 30% Mac on our site – which is a generic academic dept. Resurgence is!
7.30% Mac market share isn’t too shabby either.
After briefly glancing at the headline, I thought this was going to be about NetShare making its return to the app store. If that was the case, I was going to buy it, even though I don’t really have a use for it… just in case!
Not a single other smart phone on the chart. Also, I am using my iPhone to do this!
Anybody else think they idiots don’t know how to round? Go back to elementary school for heaven’s sake!
I find it amazing that Windows still has 91%. Basically, MS can totally screw the pooch for the rest of my life and still maintain the market lead for browsers.
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Funny how 91.35% is rounded up to 92%, but 7.30% is rounded down to 7%
no bias there…..
@mwwalk
Was that “they” straight from the downside of your ‘alimentary’ canal of thought? (you know your ǝnuZ)
Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Proverb
Cuz you can actually surf on it……duh!
There is nothing like using your fingers to surf the net. It really is a better way than the mouse.
Sorry, but the original writer of this article is a moron. It’s called (application) NetShare. And I’m bettin’ a whoooole lotta of people are in for a *hard* fall when they get their bills for overages… that assuming AT&T;doesn’t cancel your account all together.”If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
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@macshill
If you use NetShare application iPhone is then just a modem . And this article is not about modem marketshares.
“Funny how 91.35% is rounded up to 92%, but 7.30% is rounded down to 7%”
Right, and they reported a “Huge Surge” rather then rounding iPhone usage down to 0%. No bias there.
Google and Yahoo should release the information on what visitors to their sites OS and Browser is.
That will give a pretty good idea of the real OS percentage.
@ Big Growth on Small Numbers
Quad Core was talking about the pie chart, and if you actually look at it, they did, in fact, round it down to 0%.
Here is the reason they rounded the way they did, in my opinion…
A pie chart must add up to 100%. If you properly round all of the numbers by conventional means… MS is 91% Mac is 7% Linux is 1% and the rest are all 0% So that adds to 99%.
Of course, you cannot take a wedge that is 0% and show it on the pie chart…
So they decided to take the largest region, 91% and bump it to 92% because the difference between the two numbers would not be significant in the chart. But bumping one of the less than 1% to 1% or 7% to 8% would be quite significant… a factor of 100% discrepancy or 14%.
Did anyone else notice that Mac usage has taken a “Huge Surge” downward from last month’s 7.76% to the current 7.3%?
And that Windows usage has taken a “Huge Surge” upward from 91.02% to 91.35%
Mac usage is more than half a point off from the peak it hit of 7.94%
In fact those flows are twice the size of the iPhone “Huge Surge”, four times it over two months.
It looks like a Tsunami of support is moving from Mac OS X to Windows.
When rounded percentages do not add up to 100% in a chart or table, the conventional approach is to simply add a note that reads something like, “Percentage totals do not equal 100% due to rounding.”
Or add the Mac and iPhone together since they’re running versions of OS X. Where’s Windows Mobile? Added to Windows or statistically insignificant? I’ll bet those new Treos are flying off the shelves. Did people camp out and wait in long lines to buy them? Why not? It’s running the super-intuitive WM 6.1.
@ Quad Core,
I saw that too! Fargin’ bastichs! It’s a conspiracy I seys!