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)
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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!
@TheConfused1,
You are the confused one.
Tomorrow will be a better day.
“Added to Windows or statistically insignificant? “
When did anyone decide that 0.31% was statistically significant? Or that a 0.12% increase on this type of survery was statistacally significant?
Given that Network Applications numbers ovestate the verifiable Mac user base by about 50%, their margin of error is at least 4%.
These numbers are bogus. Trailing numbers. Platforms that were stronger at the beginning will have higher numbers than those that grew significantly during the period. And who can tell me which platform started the quarter with modest numbers? Why, the iPhone, of course. And, given that Windows Mobile is on at least twice as many phones as OSX, you’d think they’d rate a mention. Right? Shouldn’t they? Maybe that platform just rots when it comes to surfing the net? Seems plausible to me.
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Point is, wait until next quarter, and the one after, where the iPhone is over 1% and no other phone is even mentioned.
How are you explaining the loss of five million Macs from the user base in the last two months?
Perhaps Apple has peaked and is in decline again. Seems plausible to me.
I thought iPhone runs Mac OS X!
@@DLMeyer,
What 5 million Mac users are you talking about? The number of Mac users has continually increased since about the year 2000. What sources were you looking at?
@Gosh,
It does, but it identifies itself as an iPhone to the site and not a Mac.
“What sources were you looking at?”
The numbers above, showing a drop off in Mac usage of about 0.6% in the last two months which when applied to the worldwide user base of computers would be about 5 million units.
This is internet usage over a week and says nothing accurate about overall market share. Anyway, more Mac users on vacation probably.
Um … no. I don’t believe there is any reason to understand anything I said to mean “the loss of five million Macs from the user base in the last two months”. I was quite specific in that I was talking about the failure of the given numbers to account for GROWTH. To suggest otherwise is one very long stretch! I must wonder what your motives might be, common sense having been scratched from the list of possibilities.
” I don’t believe there is any reason to understand anything I said to mean”
That wasn’t based on what you said, It was based on looking at the network solutions numbers. Anything you said would equate to “Apple Rocks. I want to smoke Steve Jobs sausage and have his babies”
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