Apparantly, it’s damn lies statistics time again in the Apple world, boys and girls. A few days ago, Net Applications published OS market share figures which showed that the market share of the Mac OS remained largely flat over the past year. However, today, the Switchtoamac website posted an article which looks at the same set of figures in a different way, only to conclude that when you. WebSideStory, a provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services, is reporting that the global market share for the Mac operating system has remained at less than 3 percent since January. Apple Mac computers reached $5,513 million in revenue in Q4 of 2018. (Source: Statista) Google Chrome OS. In 2016, Chrome OS’s’ K-12 market share reached 51%, which marked the first time it surpassed Apple. (Source: USA TODAY) In 2018, Chrome OS had a 60% market share among all laptops and tablets in the U.S. K-12 classrooms. Apple has a bit freedom to go for marketshare with Apple Silicon. An A14 based SKU: an M1 divided by 2 with 2 p-cores, 4 GPU cores, 8 GB RAM, and 1 TB controller could make for fanless $500 Mac mini and an $800 MBA. That's getting pretty close to 'impulse' buy levels for a lot of folks. Mobile OS Market Share, Install Base, 2020Q1 - 2020Q4. The chart shows the Mobile Operating System (OS) Market Share from 2020 Q1 to 2020 Q4. Apple iOS market share in the Mobile OS market was 27.2% in Q4 2020. The Mobile OS market is dominated by two companies - Google with its open-source Android series of mobile OS, and Apple with iOS.
WebSideStory, a provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services, is reporting that the global market share for the Mac operating system has remained at less than 3 percent since January 1999. As of Jan. 2, 2002, it was 2.32 percent, compared to Microsoft’s 96.28 percent as of the same date, according to WebSideStory’s StatMarket, a source for data on global Internet user trends. Usage share is the percentage of Internet surfers that are using a particular operating system. Not all the news is bad, however.
Although Apple has failed to capture the global market share that would allow it to compete with Microsoft on the Web, it has managed to create significant, loyal followings in some countries, according to Geoff Johnston, VP of product marketing for StatMarket. For instance, Apple’s usage share in Switzerland as of Jan. 2 was more than 6 percent, almost three times the global average. And in Japan, Mac has fluctuated between 6 and 7 percent since March 2001.
“Although Apple is a distant second in the race overall, in some regions and industries it is too prominent to be ignored by companies developing Web applications,” Johnston said. “In others, dropping support could actually be the best choice.”
Laptop Os Market Share
StatMarket publishes information gathered from over 80 million Internet users a day to more than 125,000 sites worldwide using WebSideStory’s HitBox Enterprise and other HitBox e-business intelligence services. The service segments information from visitors in 245 countries, and 120 industry categories.
Somewhat contrarily, Time Canada says that recent data suggests that Apple operating systems accounted for only 3.6 percent of new license revenue in 2000, which seems a little strange since that was a good year for Apple financially. Worse, IDC projects that they will amount to even less in 2001 while Microsoft’s share of Windows licenses has increased during the same period.
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However, there is optimism that Mac OS X will help capture more of the market share for Apple. Unix and Java developers and users are apparently coming to the platform, due to Mac OS X’s Unix base and strong Java support. This — and the influx of new applications it will bring — may also lure Unix and Java customers to the Mac platform.
And, of course, Apple is hoping that Mac OS X and innovative products — such as the new iMac — will attract new users, as well as convert Windows users. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs put it, the company plans to innovate its way to success.
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