MacDailyNews Take: What’s impressive about releasing a piece of unfinished derivative crap, then releasing a service pack masquerading as a new OS version and seeing people flee from the stale to the fresher crap?
Keizer reports, “Although rival desktop operating systems — Mac and Linux — essentially remained flat, mobile OSes, including Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone OS, took up the slack created by Windows’ dip. Mobile operating systems, said Net Applications, now power 1.3% of all the hardware that surfs the Internet.”
“As it did in 2008, Windows’ decline again accelerated in the second half of the year, when it lost 1.2 points of share. That compared to a drop of just 0.5 of a percentage point in the first six months of 2009. In 2008, Windows also lost more than twice as much share between July and December as it did in the preceding six months,” Keizer reports. “But the slip doesn’t mean Windows is in any danger of losing its grip on the operating system market anytime soon: At the pace of the last 12 months, Windows would retain a majority share for another 25 years.”
MacDailyNews Take: Too bad for Microsoft that once the tipping point is reached, the fall accelerates significantly.
Keizer continues, “Microsoft’s newest OS, on the other hand, boosted its share by 1.7 percentage points to end December with 5.7%, meaning that approximately 1 out of every 18 machines on the Web ran Windows 7 last month… Apple’s Mac OS X dipped for the second month in a row, finishing December with 5.1% after a decline of a statistically insignificant 0.01 of a percentage point. Most months, however, Mac OS X posts gains, not losses…”
Full article here.
Gravity rules ok
Does this really matter to the Mac community- they lost a third of a point. So now they only have 92.66667% of the market or whatever it is… who cares.
Steve Jobs said a long time ago- “For Apple to win- Microsoft doesn’t have to loose.”
Report real Mac news- this is a waste.
Apple and Google are about to release the ‘next big thing’, so the next decade might not follow the slow trickle of the last one.
The MS ‘next big thing’, as we have seen in W7, is a tune-up rather than a new engine. Apple owns mobile, Google owns free, MS owns legacy.
MDN are correct on this one, Windows can’t afford to lose a significant share, not only because a tipping point might well accelerate that, but also because the whole company is grounded, some might say precariously, on the fact that Windows and its joined at the hip sibling Office, pay the bills. If the former lost even 5 to 10% market share the company would likely be in serious financial stress and arguably even before that particular marker was hit. It seems with no worthwhile mobile version that smart devises alone could impose that sort of damage. The sense of Microsoft dominance as public perception these days isn’t unlike that of everyone in the Bankers a couple years ago.
Its’ “For Apple to win- Microsoft doesn’t have to lose.” not “For Apple to win- Microsoft doesn’t have to loose.” Lose and loose are not the same word.
Keep Balmar in charge for as long as it takes! So Say We All!
A post-PC device world is approaching rapidly, that’s the tipping point.
Most switchers that I’ve seen have installed Windows on their Macs, some of them have the Win7. It’s quite tricky to tell what the marketshares are, when people have computers that can run any OS.
What a retarded writer
1) …after a decline of a statistically insignificant 0.01 of a percentage point….
– If it is indeed statistically insignificant then how can it be a decline?????
2) …At the pace of the last 12 months, Windows would retain a majority share for another 25 years….
-Geez Louise, where does it say that rates of decline are linear???
Crap is as crap does….
Thank you gp
Windows 7 was my idea.
BWAH-HA-HA-HA!!
It was a decline, since it was less than zero.
The author was forestalling the Windows zombies who would talk about Apple declining, without ever mentioning the amount (which was statistically insignificant).
@HMCIV
Those commercials are designed to allow Ballmer to keep his job. When the stockholders come around to ask Ballmer why Windows 7 failed…he can say “It wasn’t my idea…haven’t you been watching the commercials?”
just my $0.02
This reminds me of how surprised everone was at the speed with which the former Soviet Union collapsed.
Thanks GP-
Apple losing ground is not good. Until Win. is below 90% a lot of people will not consider them. This would create a lot news that would not be good for MS. I can not understand why Apple is not pushing the business market more. With SL and the Mini server they have good products for small and medium business. What people us at work will always have a big influence on what they buy for their house. However Apple did almost no advertising for the new Mac lineup this year, if they had I think they would of had a major gain of market share. I think most PC sales will be replacements, not expansion but this still leaves them with over 90%. Apple needs to rethink their Mac strategy, they could be doing a lot better.
Its’ and it’s and its are also not the same words. In fact, its’ is not a word at all. When you correct grammar and spelling, it’s always nice to proofread your comment before posting. Here’s a helpful website for those who struggle with its/it’s: http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its.html
@WetFX,
” Apple needs to rethink their Mac strategy, they could be doing a lot better.”
Yep, Apple is growing by leaps and bounds, 30 billion in the bank, and the worlds front runner in innovation.
I am sure that Apple should start losing money selling crappy netbooks just so they have bragging rights to market share. You know, like the PC guys.
Take a breath, and let Apple move on their own.
Just a thought,
EN
If they lose more computer and phone market share. We might see the end of Ballmer and the return of Bill Gates back to the company.
And Chris Peters helped with the new dos!
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I jst luv it whin the grammmar poliz get hoysted on they’re on peatards…
It’s stanch – not staunch.
Yeah, well on 25 years when Microsoft has lost their majority market share I think I’ll still be using XP at work.
@WetFX
You’re right, what people use at work does influence what people use at home. I use windows at work and because of that I would never EVER want windows to infect my household. Windows screams corporate lifestyle, and I don’t know about you but at home I prefer to sit on my couch with my macbook streaming videos and surfing the web on safari at the speed of life rather then in a cubicle waiting for IE to keep up. Some will probably try to refute this claiming internet speed has little to do with browser, but I have a solid T1 wired connection at work and a DSL connection running wirelessly at home. riddle me that.