Mac OS X, Safari slip in Net Applications stats; iPhone up slightly
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 3, 2008 at 9:01pm
The Mac OS X and Safari market shares slipped slightly from September to October in the latest market share survey from Net Applications. The Mac had 8.21 percent for October, compared to 8.23 percent the previous month.
Among operating systems, Windows had 90.46 percent market share in October. That compares to 90.29 percent for September.
Safari slipped from 6.65 percent to 6.57 percent. When it comes to browsers, in October Internet Explorer had 71.27 percent and Firefox 19.97 percent. That compares to 71.52 percent and 19.46 percent for September, respectively.
On the bright side, the iPhone had .33 percent in October compared to .32 percent for September.
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.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
