MacOS Market Share Hits Record at 7.31%

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

According to Net Applications’ December 2007 market share data for operating systems, MacOS has hit a new high in terms of usage with 7.31%. At the same time, the iPhone OS hit a high of .12%. These were up from 6.80% and .09%, respectively, in November.

Check out the iPhone numbers: that indicates 1 out of 1000 people browsing the Internet are using an iPhone.

Of course, Windows is still the dominant OS, with 91.79% of the market, but Windows’ market share has been in a pretty constant, though slow, decline since late last 2006. Of course, 90+% is nothing to sneeze at.

Month-to-month, Windows dropped .67% from November to December, while MacOS was up 7.35% and the iPhone by 33.33%.

At the end of 2006, Windows held 93.86% of the market, while MacOS had 5.67% of the market. Fortune has a nice graph with some interesting trends, BTW.

We Say: It should be remembered, however, that Net Applications’ market share reports only collects data from the browsers of site visitors to approximately 40,000 websites operated by the firm’s clients. Thus this could not be said to be comprehensive, but it’s certainly a good snapshot of the market as a whole. The websites are scattered across global regions, including North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia and the Pacific Rim and Asia.