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.
@TheConfused1,
You are the confused one.
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“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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