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Mac share approaching 10 percent
Written by: Dennis SellersArticle Overview: The Mac's market share is approaching 10 percent, at least according to one company. Now Apple should set the bar even higher.
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Mac share approaching 10 percent
Despite the tough economy, and despite Apple’s reputation as a maker of expensive computers (though I’d argue that, to a point), the Mac continues to do well. As we noted on Monday, the Mac OS X, Safari and iPhone market shares rose from December to January in the latest market share survey from Net Applications.
The Mac had 9.93 percent percent for January, compared to 9.63 percent the previous month. Admittedly, Net Applications’ monthly surveys don’t measure market share in terms of computer systems sold. Instead they sample data from visitors to some 40,000 web sites operated by their clients. But I think that’s a relatively dependable measure of computing popularity. After all, keyboard/screen computer communication devices, including personal computers, diskless workstations, network computers, thin clients, and X Terminals get tallied, as I understand it, in the usual ranking of the number of Windows machines.
To put things in perspective: Macs achieved their highest-ever online representation in January. The numbers reflect the continuing upward trend that started over a year ago (when the Mac had less than eight percent)—a trend that has only seen an occasional, marginal blip.
So kudos to Apple. Now how about a little more focus on the Mac instead of the iPhone? After all, now we should be aiming for 15 percent. Then 20 percent. Then…
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