Comments on: Mac Market Share Hits All-Time High Following Windows 7 Launch

By: financial spreadbetting

financial spreadbetting — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:19:40 +0000

I might be the only one but I love seeing Microsoft and Apple fighting it out. As a user it is annoying that you are restricted by the platform choice.

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By: desinerd

desinerd — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:56:52 +0000

@Shawn

I agree, the stats could be flawed… and Mac’s actual share could be lower than reported. The reason for that is that Macs are used more at home (for browsing, watching youtube, reading Apple blog etc). On the other hand, offices primarily use PCs and often lock them down so that the employees do not surf web during office hours. Going by that logic, the market share for Mac OS could be artificially inflated. For all we know, it could actually be 3%.

Like you said, I for one never trust these statistics because there are far too many variables to take into account that most publications fail to explain to the reader.

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:16 +0000

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:15 +0000

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I don’t think Microsoft was necessarily looking for a “switch back” in October right when Windows 7 was released. I think they’re hoping for a more longer term switch; however, that’s no likely unless the people who switched to Mac realize they don’t like the Mac OS or restrictive hardware. I do know a few people who won’t be buying a Mac again, but they won’t be swapping for a PC for at least 2 more years – in other words, the average lifespan of a computer.

That means that even if people who swapped to Mac have realized they like PCs more during their period of ownership, they won’t immediately go out and just purchase a new PC for Windows 7. In fact, Windows 7 was more of a bait and tackle for XP users to get them onto the current OS.

Apple has a few good things running for it at the moment. Schools in the US are saturated with Apple computers thanks to the early adoption of the Mac II which lead to the adoption of future generation.

However, another thing that needs to be taken into account is who Net Applications caters to. They cater to sites like the Wallstreet Journal and New York Times. Those of us who don’t visit these sites won’t have their computers and operating systems counted. As such, the statistics apply mostly to business people. Even if there are people adopting Macs, that doesn’t mean that they don’t maintain a second PC with Windows for specific tasks.

I for one never trust these statistics because there are far too many variables to take into account that most publications fail to explain to the reader.

By: t0nic

t0nic — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:00 +0000

survey mac os hit record 7.3 market share… in 2007? What’s up.

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/01/survey-mac-os-hit-record-73-share-in-december-iphone-up-33/

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:52:20 +0000

It should also be noted that net applications takes those web visits it has and then adjusts the totals, by multiplying the stats of each country based on population (even though it has no data on what the rest of the country went to, and are assuming they all own computers and surf the web equally). Which is why IE6 is generally somewhat inflated if you make websites in a developed country as IE6 is used higher in china, india and some other countries when you are looking for specific countries data you can only access it if you have a payed account.

Another source with a large user base that allows free access to its data is stat counter, and lets you break it down to time range, country/region and interest. here is a link to the OS data for the 30 days previous to this comment in the USA http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-daily-20091003-20091101