Apple

Recently, Net Application has released the new American internet market share report, overall performance of apple is stand out, besides the market share of Mac OS X has reach 9.63%, the market share of iPhone reach 0.44% as well.

If these two plus together, Apple overall web market share has exceeded 10%.

Different from other market share report which is calculated based on sales or profit, the monthly updated web market share report from Net Application is made through sampling the information about web browser from 1600 million web visits in their clients. Although Windows System from Microsoft still occupied more than 88% market share in December, Apple increase their market share dramatically in American Christmas season.

Net Application indicated that Christmas season not only make the download of iPod from App Store greatly increased, boost iPod web usage grow 60%, but also increase the web usage of home users while Safari and Firefox are more popular in this part of market.

Furthermore, iPhone has showed the great web usage tendency, it has increase 19% comparing with last month and hit record high 0.44%. This number is three times more than the number of last year.

On the contrary, although Window System still occupied 88% market share, it has showed gradually decline tendency. It needs more attention to see whether this is just a seasonal change or the turning point of stimulating the potential web usage capability of iPhone, or the portent of the future of diversity web market.

Edited By Vicky Yin