Mac OS X, Safari percentages down, iPhone up in latest Net Applications survey
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 3, 2008 at 8:09pm
Mac OS X dropped a bit last month while the iPhone rose in the latest Net Applications survey of operating system market share. 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.
After gaining in December and January, Mac OS X dipped slightly from 7.57 percent in January to 7.45 percent in February, a 1.45 percent decrease. Windows, of course, continues to be the 800-pound gorilla with 91.58 percent of the market.
The iPhone, which is listed separately from the Mac OS X itself, rose from .13 percent in January to 0.14 percent for February, a personal best. The iPhone’s share is ahead of both the PlayStation and Nintendo Wii.
Of course, if you combined the iPhone with the Mac OS X proper, since the communications does run Mac OS X, the Mac OS X would continue to rise.
Meanwhile, Safari’s market share was 5.70 percent in February, which was down from January’s 5.82 percent. Ahead of the Safari browser are Firefox (17.27 percent) and Internet Explorer (74.88 percent).
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