Report: Mac OS X, Safari market shares down month-over-month (but iPhone is up)
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 4, 2008 at 10:48am
Mac OS X dipped to 7.76 percent for July in the latest market share survey from Net Applications. That’s down from a record 7.94 percent in June.
Microsoft has 91.02 percent market share, Linux 0.82 percent, the iPhone 0.19 percent, the PlayStation 0.04 percent and the Nintendo Wii, 0.01 percent. The iPhone is up from 0.16 percent in June.
In June Windows had 90.89 percent of total market share. Others on the list were: Linux, 0.80 percent; PlayStation, 0.03 percent; and the Nintendo Wii, 0.01 percent.
When it comes to browsers, in July, Microsoft Internet Explorer had 73.02 percent, Firefox had 19.22 percent and Safari had 6.14 percent. That compares to 73.01 percent, 19.03 percent, and 6.31 percent, respectively, for June.
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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