Mac share at 6.55%
November 4th 2007
When IGM last looked at the Mac's online market share, the fairer platform registered at 6.61 percent. This month, Net Applications data pegs the Mac at 6.55 percent.
This figure doesn't differ significantly from last month's except in one telling way--for the first time, people running a Mactel version (3.42 percent) of OS X outnumber PPC users (3.14).
With Apple selling Macs in record numbers, the relative number of PPC users will quickly fade--c'est la vie!
Also level with last month's number was the percentage of people running OS X iPhone at 0.7 percent, as measured by Net Applications.
Users of Apple's Safari, which runs on both the Mac and 'doze, reportedly accounts for 5.05 percent of those online, which is just a shade under last month's 5.07 percent (platform-specific data isn't offered).
Net Application's browser Top 5 includes Microsoft IE (77.87), Firefox (14.85), Safari (5.05), Opera (0.99) and Netscape (0.64). The bad news here is that Internet Explorer's share, after years of slow decline, has stabilized at about 78 percent.
Editor's note: Last quarter was Apple's best ever. That the company is apparently, an inference only, keeping pace with that level of sales...
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