MacDailyNews Take: Actually, it’s been below 60% before. In fact, the POS was once blessedly at 0%, before Microsoft licensed Mosaic, began spaghetti-coding, and started to illegally abuse their desktop monopoly.
Electronista continues, “”Microsoft’s browser dropped to 59.95 percent of web use in April after Google Chrome leapt half a point ahead to 6.73 percent in the same timeframe. Firefox and Safari also ate into Internet Explorer’s share with small gains that put them at 24.59 percent and 4.72 percent each.”
MacDailyNews Take: The fact that 59.95% of people still use Internet Explorer is a testament to humanity’s monumental capacity for ignorance and self-flagellation.
Electronista continues, “OS share itself was much more static last month, although Microsoft again reached its lowest point with Windows getting a still-dominant 91.46 percent. Mac OS X was off just under a hundredth of a point at 5.32 percent, while Linux gained very slightly to reach 1.05 percent.”
“The researchers also provided early insight into the iPad’s usage habits,” Electronista reports. “It still accounted for just a very small fraction of web traffic at 0.03 percent; in the US, the only country where it officially sells, it represented 0.12 percent.”
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Indeed there are still a lot of people who think the internet is that program with the big blue “e” icon.
Some friends of mine are like this, and they use Bing as a search engine now – if you ask them about it, they have no idea what Bing is. They think it’s just some commercial when you hit the search button… My sister bought a Windows Netbook, she hates computers, and just bought the cheapest she could find (I know she should try a mac, but difficult to explain her). I installed Firefox on it and changed the icon to a globe and renamed it “Internet”.
Personally I haven’t used IE for a long time – must have been when it was included with OS9 or so. Anyway then Netscape was my favourite, nowadays I go with Safari, so I can’t really say if it is that bad, but I have no MS products on my mac, and no need to start with that.
LOL. Safari’s traffic is less than 10% of IEs, and people are celebrating the drop in IEs share? Get a grip. IE is still dominant, even if it’s used by drones who don’t know better. Heck, even Chrome is higher than Safari… sheesh.
@JustMe….Touche
@DUH!
I do that when I can. If I am making a private web app for company employees or something, I will use PHP to block IE and require them to use FireFox or Safari (with the clients permission). Otherwise I will try to do your approach. however, some clients still see IE as where most of their clients are coming from and say it has to work as best as possible on IE.
Only about 10% of my sites have to be on IE, the rest are Webkit/Mozilla only. But even between those two engines it’s still a pain because they both render some things differently.
@ REALTORben
Not knowing constitutes ignorance, or what did you think the work meant?
@Cynic!
Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine. That they combine to 10% of the market is a good thing for users of both browsers. It means better support from Websites, which is co-incidentally what people are celebrating about the slow decline of IE. Maybe you weren’t a Mac user seven or eight years ago when half the Web rendered badly on a Mac thanks to web developers defaulting to coding for IE and not bothering with checking on other browsers. These days they code the sites right, and test against as many browsers as possible. So yeah, IE’s continuing decline is a big deal. Microsoft can’t convince people to lock everyone else out anymore.
@jtc: no web developer worth a damn codes for IE first, unless the project demands it. You develop for standard browsers first, then add in the inevitable fixes for Internet Exploder
@Mac-nugget
1) see the comment directed at @JustMe above. That’s pretty much what he/she said. Your was just more direct and not as “friendly on the feelings”.
2) Clever name. LOL
Wow, haven’t seen a soul use IE in about 18 months. I do, however, work with tech literate students and colleagues who all use Firefox or Chrome on PCs, and Firefox or Safari on Macs….
The only thing that will keep that abomination going is MS hooks to lock in the corporate intranet world. Active BS-X, Sharpoint and whatever pieces of crap they give away free for numskull IT/CIO to use to help lock it in.
People. Wake up. For example, have you ever avidly supported a politician as the savior, only to realize a few years down the track that he’s just a dud like the guy before? Same with Steve and his crowd. You support Steve, because you dislike the guy before with glasses. But – wake up. See the signs. Steve’s just as bad, or even worse that the guy before. Small tell-tale signs. Monopolist, Dictator etc. these words apply even more to Steve. Look at the way Apple has handled the matte screen issue. Over a thousand petitions at http://macmatte.wordpress.com – and total disdain from Apple. Sheesh, even on Windows you can get choice on crucial hardware options; but with Steve, it’s his way or the highway. Years from now, Mac fanatics will realize that the world is a jungle. One dictator is killed off only to be replaced by a worse dictator. The dictator keeps the masses happy by giving them trinkets like bread and circuses and iPads — but, when it comes to a crunch when the masses need something, and the Dictator doesn’t care a stuff, the true colors show. If you think the world was intolerable when Microsoft ruled with 90+% Explorer and Windows, YOU JUST WAIT to see what it’s like when Steve and Apple rule with even 50% percent. Seriously, the lack of matte screens and draconian iPhone-app scrutiny, and iPhone developer NDA’s is just the tip of the Antarctic ice-shelf. Give it 10-15 years, and you guys might see the light. Steve is the same as Bill, just in a different OS wrapping. Remember, the only thing Steve is driven by is money, and you don’t matter a dime to him.
@JJJ
You don’t get it. Apple is about user experience. It’s about what works for majority of people without the need for the convoluted openess so many windows diehards associate with computing freedom. The fact is a world without viruses and going to “start” to shut down the system is bliss.
My five macs, iPod touch and iPad get the he’ll out of the way and let me work and play. I’ve never once felt limited in my choices.
@MidWest Mac
If you merely use your computer for doing word-processing, surfing the internet, business apps, doing school work etc – then the Mac suits your needs. Read the comments at http://macmatte.wordpress.com before jumping to the assumption that those people who want Mac screens are not mainstream.
I guess JJJ never read J Ive interview in which he states what it is that drives Apple. It’s not money, not market domination. Look it up.
I’ve been staring at the same section of code for an hour, and I don’t see anything that would cause this problem.
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/ultrawhite-smile-review-amp-free-trial-2205964.html
I would love to know what websites net applications keeps track of. All of these percentages don’t really mean much more than a show of trends.
In any case, people can record it and distribute to other, forward the stream to next person, give away the address, or even locate your IP off of the direct stream(if your not using AIM or MSN or somthing similar) and distribute and people can turn on your webcam any time.