People like to say that Apple only has a few percent market share.
But Quantcast has a new survey out that says 11% of online users are using Macintoshes.
The reason for the difference lies in what’s being measured.
Market share means what percent of all the computers (or operating systems) sold in a given year are a particular OS. Quantcast is measuring the installed base, though. Since it’s thought that Macs are higher quality than most PCs, it’s possible they last longer, and people don’t need to buy so often. Since they’re not buying replacements every year, the market share for Macs might be smaller.
Interestingly, Apple has a higher share in North America: 10.9%. (That’s where the 11% is coming from.) It’s installed base in Asia is 2.5%, and even lower in Africa and Latin America.
The fall of Windows
Microsoft Windows is still the biggest OS, but it’s come down over the past few years under 90% to 86% now.
With Windows going down, and at one out of every 8 customers being on a non-Windows platform, it’s going to get increasingly more difficult for Microsoft to lock down the web and the computing world into a Microsoft-only scene. After all, why would you voluntarily give up one of every eight paying customers?
Most businesses don’t have the margins to ignore that number of clients, so I think, going forward, we’ll see more and more cross-platform software applications. Since most cross-platform programming environments (like Java, Python, and Qt) support Windows, Linux, and Mac, we’ll probably see an increase in applications available for Linux/Ubuntu.
I think that’s a good thing regardless of which OS you like to use because, anymore, people are going to demand that their data not be locked up into any one OS or application data format.
Resources
Ars Digita: Mac OS X North American installed base almost 11%
Quantcast Blog: Operating System Share
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One of ten only? In my neighborhood almost everyone has a mac
. I thought it would be may be at least one of five.
Apple Mac is a very attractive PC. The market share in Malaysia is still low now most probably is because of the Mac price too expensive and not because of the OS. I strongly believe that, if Apple can sell the Mac in same price as other PC (Windows based OS), its market share will certainly increase.
Wow one in ten…thats pretty impressive. No wonder Apple’s Rev keeping growing – do these figures include tablet pcs?
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I am not surprised, even though I don’t own one I have a number of friends which do
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Mac is starting to pick up some speed in the market. A lot of people are getting Macbooks especially! I think the iPhone has helped Apple consderably.
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The conclusions are interesting, but, to reveal the reality, would be far more interesting to find out how much of the new Apple clients are buying the brand because they really believe in it, or, in fact they simply buy it because they imagine it is cool to have one. We should also take into account that Apple owns the most fanatical fans, ready to buy these products, even they are able to find similar products superior from the quality point of view.
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