Net Applications: Apple’s Mac OS share hit 9.63% in December 2008

Mac Daily News ^ | 01/01/2009

[Swordmaker]

Net Applications' Operating System stats for December 2008 show Apple's Mac hit 9.63% share of the operating systems visiting Net Applications' network of websites worldwide. The stats also show Apple iPhone with a new all-time high of 0.44% share and Apple iPod with 0.08%.

Net Applications' December 2008 Operating System Stats:
Microsoft Windows: 88.68% (vs. MAY 2006: 95.09%)
- Windows XP: 65.22%
- Windows Vista: 21.12%
- Windows 2000: 1.47%
- Windows NT: 0.34%
- Windows 98: 0.27%
- Windows ME: 0.16%
- Windows 95: 0.01%
Apple Macintosh: 9.63% (vs. MAY 2006: 4.43%)
- Intel: 7.19%
- PowerPC: 2.44%
Linux: 0.85%
Apple iPhone: 0.44%
Apple iPod: 0.08%
Windows CE: 0.05%
Playstation: 0.02%
FreeBSD: 0.01%
Nintendo Wii: 0.01%

Net Applications' Operating System Market Share for December 2008:


Net Applications' Operating System Market Share Trend for Apple Macintosh for January 2007 to December 2008:


More details can be seen via Net Applications' here.

MacDailyNews Note: As always, the actual percentage numbers are not as important as the trends shown since all "market share" reports have unique measurement sources. Net Applications, for example measures 40,000 corporate and ecommerce websites — how many of which are restricted to WIndows and/or IE, if any, we do not know. If anything, Net Applications is providing one measure of installed base, rather than "market share." Again, what's important is the trend (and consistent data points). The trend shows Apple's Macintosh ascending.

[Swordmaker]

Apple Mac OS X usage share approaching 10% per NetApplications—PING!

Macs: 9.63% Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Scutter]

I hate to admit it, but right now they have a superior product. My Macbook Pro kicks the crap out of the Vista laptop I use at work.

[tvdog12345]

With Vista, Microsoft has brought contempt for the customer to a new level. Apple is profiting from that.

[alexander_busek]

I hate to admit it, but right now they have a superior product. My Macbook Pro kicks the crap out of the Vista laptop I use at work.

Why do you hate to admit it? Are you a Microsoft shareholder or something? Or have you perhaps "shorted" Apple stock?

Regards,

[trebb]

I'm holding on to XP because Vista isn't a good option. I'm dual loaded with Ubuntu Linux to see if it is a viable replacement for a while because I'm not keen on dishing out some big bucks to start learning the Mac OS.

So far, Ubuntu seems to be doing fine, but there are a few apps that haven't been fully GUI integrated for Linux and require command-line entries, which I'm not too fond of. Overall, Linux seems to be working good for me and it's free. I just use the XP to use some of the apps that aren't so convenient in Linux. I have a NTFS partition that can be accessed from either OS and is used as a storage/staging area for files that may need the dual access.

[DevNet]

What is so wrong with Vista? Please provide details so I can replicate the issue(s) on one of my lab systems.

[dennisw]

Apple OS share is rising because of Psystar and other clone sales and Hackintoshs. These brash young men are doing what uncle Stevie used to do. Before he became a boring old fossil that boring young fossils worship

[Swordmaker]

Apple OS share is rising because of Psystar and other clone sales and Hackintoshs. These brash young men are doing what uncle Stevie used to do. Before he became a boring old fossil that boring young fossils worship

No, DennisW, it is not the few hundred or few thousand Psystars that are causing this rise. It is the millions of new Apple Macs that were sold last year to previous Windows users.

[dennisw]

I told you my friend may get a mac mini
Is some new version of it about to come out in 2009?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It is interesting that you cite the two areas of failure concerning Apple, the booting of Jobs and cloning, as the reason for the increase. They prospered when that brought Jobs back and eliminated licensing the OS.

[dennisw]

Yaeh google news has lots of mac mini rumors. At least mac mini has DVI. Lots of todays little computers have VGA.

I refuse to use VGA displays unless I have no choice

[dennisw]

It is interesting that you cite the two areas of failure concerning Apple, the booting of Jobs and cloning, as the reason for the increase. They prospered when that brought Jobs back and eliminated licensing the OS.

In this down economy luxury items are doing terrible
Apple has to have some lower prices otherwise it will lose the great game
They can keep quality up and the looks very stylish but they must come in at lower price points for some items  (this why Psystar is getting away with murder)

McDonald's and WalMart did great last year. Those two stocks and Family Dollar shined
Apple is entering perilous times. Many who love Apple will simply not be able to afford them and will go buy Windows machines or do without

Google phone will impact hard on iphone
Google does things right.
They rarely screw up

[DevNet]

Did I touch a nerve?

[Admin Moderator]

Watch your mouth and attitude, unless you’d like a time out..

[TomServo]

Did I touch a nerve?

You always touch nerves among the cultists.

[DevNet]

???

[antiRepublicrat]

Apple OS share is rising because of Psystar and other clone sales and Hackintoshs.

You have got to be kidding me. That's literally a drop in the bucket compared to Apple sales.

[antiRepublicrat]

Google does things right. They rarely screw up

Remember that whole video purchase fiasco? Google Catalog? Google voice search by telephone? Google Coupons? Google Answers?

Google screws up all the time, but it's good. Their people get to work in personal projects that Google has no problem putting on line to see if they fly, which probably accounts for a good number of their failures.

[dennisw]

Apple OS share is rising because of Psystar and other clone sales and Hackintoshs.

You have got to be kidding me. That's literally a drop in the bucket compared to Apple sales.

Look at it this way
Safari browser use is up partly because of the Psystars, Hackintoshes and other clones floating around. Windows users too who have no intention of buying an Apple computer

[antiRepublicrat]

Safari browser use is up partly because of the Psystars, Hackintoshes and other clones floating around.

I'm pretty sure their total is within the margin of error of the survey.

[dilvish]

And yet Vista has more than twice the market share.

[dennisw]

-— Blessed are the clone makers -—

You are beholden to the clone makers to boost the Safari ratings

[antiRepublicrat]

The last time there were Mac clones, the marketshare went through the floor.

[dan1123]

Apple is entering perilous times. Many who love Apple will simply not be able to afford them and will go buy Windows machines or do without

I think Apple has been mostly doing all the right things. They have tiered their systems well for the most part, made the operating system work seamlessly with the hardware, moved to the Intel platform, and increased their visibility through their retail store push. They also released Safari and iTunes on the Windows platform. Their iPod and iPhone lines seem to be doing very well also.

Their problem will always be in the entry level, and while small, lesser-featured laptop "netbooks" are pushing the price boundary down, Apple is, and probably will continue to be absent from. Linux has hope here, but there has to be standardization (and an app store?) before it can take off.

[dennisw]

The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand. You should be thanking them and inviting them to replace Steve Jobs as keynote speaker. Plus they are bi-lingual, can deliver it in Spanish too

My prediction is that within two two years Apple will keep the upper tier but will authorize Psystar to make and sell entry level Apple desktops so they can compete with Dell for students

[antiRepublicrat]

The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.

I think you've reduced to simple trolling now. OS X in standard boxes? Not exactly breathing new life into a brand.

Apple is 24th in brand value in the world, worth over 13 billion dollars (just the brand name alone, not the company). That's up from about 9 billion and 39th place in 2006. It's 8th in the electronics industry, behind the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Nokia and ahead of Sony, Dell and eBay. Overall they're even ahead of Nike and Pepsi.

Apple won't go low-end because they can't guarantee the quality, product cohesiveness and marketing that goes with the brand, and that would reduce brand value. A point or two in marketshare means nothing if it doesn't come with extra value or profit.

[Sunnyflorida]

“Google does things right. “

You’re nutty as a fruit cake.

[Sunnyflorida]

“The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.”

You’re fruitier than a nut cake. Paystar has barely sold a handful of machines. Anybody that would by a computer out of a Miami warehouse is insane.

[Spktyr]

Yup, and despite people like dennisw’s rabid desires and psychotic delusions to the contrary, going downmarket has been a total failure 99% of the time.

Just ask Mercedes. They’re *still* in serious trouble over going downmarket. Or Cadillac, for that matter. Anyone else remember the Cimarron?

[Swordmaker]

Is some new version of it about to come out in 2009?

Rumor has it that way... but we have to wait for Tuesday to move it from the rumor column to the it's happening column.

[dennisw]

Am an Apple gadfly and muck raker
And anytime I write Psystar you can read that as codeword that also includes all up and coming clone makers and Hackintoshs...... Like it or not they bring the inevitable to Apple. Cheap Apple OS available to the proles that Stevie has so much contempt for

[dennisw]

thnx

[dennisw]

“The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.”

You’re fruitier than a nut cake. Paystar has barely sold a handful of machines. Anybody that would by a computer out of a Miami warehouse is insane.

It will be "too the moon" ....  Once the gag order is lifted and the court rules against the 1984 like Apple Leviathan
The gag order is what keeps Los Hermanos Psystar from selling their clone tech to other up and comers who want in on the action. Money is tight and these young & hungry entrepreneurs are going to stand the Apple paradigm on its head within two years. Matter of fact Stevie should be standing on his head and doing some yoga for his health

[dennisw]

Just ask Mercedes. They’re *still* in serious trouble over going downmarket. Or Cadillac, for that matter. Anyone else remember the Cimarron?

All car makers are in trouble. Overcapacity and lack of money to buy luxury brands like Mercedes and Apple. Apple can either learn from the Psystar boys or it is headed for quarterly losses. The proles want Apple but can't afford them
I see the huge market there that you and cousin Stevie are blind too

[joseph20]

"What is so wrong with Vista? Please provide details so I can replicate the issue(s) on one of my lab systems."

It costs money.

[dennisw]

The last time there were Mac clones, the marketshare went through the floor.

Ancient history
We are in a serious deflation now verging on depression
You have to re-tool your attitude
More importantly, uncle Stevie has to

[antiRepublicrat]

We are in a serious deflation now verging on depression You have to re-tool your attitude More importantly, uncle Stevie has to

There will always be people to buy Apple's goods even if the market shifts lower. What matters is profit, not marketshare. Apple is doing very well despite the recent downturn in the economy, definitely getting hit far less than most other companies.

While I like the Smart car, it's still been a money loser for Mercedes. The A-class was a disaster, skimping on engineering resulting in the first Mercedes that was unsafe straight off the lot. Even Mercedes has noticed the downturn in its quality and engineering and recently spent a huge amount of money to bring its cars back to their former quality and restore the brand name.

[Swordmaker]

It will be "too the moon" .... Once the gag order is lifted and the court rules against the 1984 like Apple Leviathan The gag order is what keeps Los Hermanos Psystar from selling their clone tech to other up and comers who want in on the action.

There is no "gag order." Everything that is being done in court is being published as soon as it's done. So far, the court has ruled against everything that Psystar has tried.

[Spktyr]

So, this car was a *good* idea, by your logic?

[antiRepublicrat]

All car makers are in trouble. Overcapacity and lack of money to buy luxury brands like Mercedes and Apple.

So why is Apple doing better than Dell, a notoriously low-end OEM? Apple's support is even still in the US, as opposed to unintelligible "try reinstalling the OS" support from India. Sure it costs more, but it's customer satisfaction that plenty of people are willing to pay for.

All these reasons together are why Apple consistently tops OEM customer satisfaction surveys by a wide margin. I wonder what kind of support you get from Psystar when their cheap beige boxes have problems.

[antiRepublicrat]

That’s a Cimarron, right? I remember those, a Chevy Cavalier with a Cadillac badge. Total freakin’ disaster to the Cadillac brand. I hear they have a picture of one of these at Cadillac with “Lest we forget” or something like that written on it.

Cadillac tried again with the Catera, a re-badged Opel Omega. But at least the Omega was a mid-range sedan in Germany, you could spec one out to compete with the price, features and performance of a lower-range Mercedes. It didn’t sell too well either, but still a lot better than the Cadvalier.

[Leonard210]

“Apple is 24th in brand value in the world, worth over 13 billion dollars (just the brand name alone, not the company). That’s up from about 9 billion and 39th place in 2006. It’s 8th in the electronics industry, behind the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Nokia and ahead of Sony, Dell and eBay. Overall they’re even ahead of Nike and Pepsi.

Apple won’t go low-end because they can’t guarantee the quality, product cohesiveness and marketing that goes with the brand, and that would reduce brand value. A point or two in marketshare means nothing if it doesn’t come with extra value or profit.”

So brilliant it was worth repeating.

[Spktyr]

Exactly. 20 years later, and people *still* remember that thing - and avoid Cadillac because of it.

Let's look at some other jumps downmarket in dennisw's vein... none of which have ever worked out well.

Colt Double Eagle Pistol

1975 Indian ME100 Motorcycle

The Admiral electronics brand - Zenith used it to sell downmarket TVs. Seen a Zenith set lately?

Post-1963 Winchester Model 70s - when they decided to go downmarket and cheap. The Winchester plant in New Haven CT is closed now.

[dennisw]

You guys are just jealous of Los Hermanos Psystar and the other clone makers they have inspired, Heck, uncle Stevie is jealous too. He was once like them. Brash, creative, hi-IQ, and with hair on his head

[Spktyr]

Not particularly. Psystar’s Hackintosh-for-pay line was set up, more or less, to be a lawsuit factory.

It is almost certainly being bankrolled by Microsoft.

As for the “other clone makers” - *where*??? There don’t seem to be any.

[dennisw]

Los Hermanos Psystar have inspired an Argentinean clone maker. That much we know. The others we don't know operate by stealth.....Lest they get sued by uncle Stevie

Hackintosh clone surfaces in the Argentine • The Register

Dec 8, 2008 ... Hackintosh clone surfaces in the Argentine ... Apple swings DMCA at Hackintosh maker (2 December 2008); Judge dismisses Hackintosh maker's ...
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/openimac/ - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

 

 

[Spktyr]

Ah, yes. Argentina. That huge and bustling market, so world-influencing.

Not.

Look, Psystar is right down there with the SCO scammers in terms of corporate behavior and lawsuit baiting. I’d have more sympathy if they actually had a better legal theory behind them - their current one is laughable.

[dennisw]

Psystar-It is almost certainly being bankrolled by Microsoft.  

Get real. Is that the back chatter on the fanboy sites?

And as far as Argentina clone makers? Uncle Stevie's law doesn't reach that far. Apple clones will become popular on the "beyond lawsuit" periphery. The clone knowledge base will grow there. One day Apple will give up and just authorize Psystar USA type clone makers after forcing a decent level of quality control on them