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OS X Market Share Above 8% at the End of January

While I’ve already brought up the idea that perhaps Microsoft launched their hostile bid for Yahoo yesterday to hit Google while they were down after falling short of analysts expectations for the first time (slightly kidding) – maybe their real motive was to overshadow news that they continue to lose OS market share to Apple (slightly more kidding).

The latest numbers from Net Applications now have OS X at over 7.5% of the market. But as Apple 2.0 notes the real news may be that at the end of last month, the share was over 8% for the first time. The iPhone meanwhile continues its rise as well, capturing .13% of the market.

This data of course is far from absolute as it simply captures web-browsing market share based on 40,000 websites, but the upward trending for Apple combined with a continual downward trending for Windows is definitely worth noting.

[graph: Net Applications]

Post by MG Siegler on 02/02/08
Comments

Steve Ballmer

Oh Paris!
How could you believe these flawed numbers?

When you take the quantitative sales derivitive of new sales divided by the increased nonlinear reciprical shippments as opposed to the inclinde capitol expenditure cost of units you actually see that we are up and Apple is down!