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iPhone Climbs The Ranks of OS Market Share

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 1:55 PM - by

The iPhone (OS X) now ranks above many well known operating systems in market share, coming in 10th, only a few spots behind Linux, according to the latest Net Applications Report on Monday.

While a lot of attention is paid to the relative market shares of Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X, those numbers tend to change glacially. Those OSes have a solid lock on the top spots.

On the other hand, less than six months after its debut, the iPhone's OS X has risen to 10th in the Net Applications list of OS market share.

Moreover, while its miniscule 0.09 percent is far behind Linux at 0.57 percent, its appearance on the list, one rank above Windows CE at 0.06 percent speaks well for the iPhone as an emerging portable personal computer.

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gslusher said:

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Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:29 pm

Yet again, this is NOT what most people mean by "market share." Net Applications tracks visitors to the web sites of their clients. It has very little to do with what most people mean by "market share," which is based upon sales of computers. They are also skewed toward commercial sites run by larger businesses, as their service is not particularly cheap.

Of course, the "market share" (to use Net Applications' disingenuous term) of the iPhone is increasing. It started from nothing, after all. If it were not increasing, there would be serious concern. These results mean essentially nothing.

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