Mac's share again rising


With its numbers for August, Net Applications attempted to paint a picture of impending doom and gloom for the fairer platform, stating that the Mac's improving fortunes had stagnated and would soon fall back. However, numbers for September show that 4.72 percent of those measured were running either a PPC (3.88) or Mactel (0.84) iteration of the Mac OS--a healthy 0.39 percent rise.

Moreover, Apple's Safari also saw a significant month-over-month rise in share from 3.21 percent to 3.53 percent.

The big winner in Net Application's September numbers is, however, Mozilla's Firefox. The leading alternative browser now accounts for 12.46 percent of those measured, whereas it stood at just 11.84 percent in August.

Editor's note: We'll have to wait for Apple's unit figures, but these numbers would seem to indicate that sales are still driving north at a good clip...

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