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they track actual OS and browser USAGE.. they track actual OS and browser USAGE.."
Webapplications track PC/Mac other OS users that visit the sites they monitor. That's about it.
No more no less.
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which is more related to overall Installed base than Market share of sales for any specific period."
As far as PC/Mac figures go, the only figures that matter are actual sales, amd actual market share. Its a bit different for browser market share, where site visits matter more.
After all, most computers in the two most populous countries on the planet, India and China (China is the second biggest PC market on the planet), are not even linked to the Internet at all.
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Apple had a 35% share back in the late 70s... so what. We are looking at what is happening RIGHT NOW.. the last year or two."
You would say that, wouldn't you?
If you had over 25% share before, and today you have 2.8% share, is that significant? Yup.
It's like starting as the CEO of a company and ending up as the cleaner.
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You've been challenged to PROVE your assertion and have failed"
I have huh?
Let's look at comparative browser IE/Firefox figures from Websidestory and Webapplications shall we?
Websidestory:
"According to Web analytics outfit WebSideStory, over 25 percent of all visitors to sites in the U.S. now use Internet Explorer 7, coming in second to IE 6, which claims 62 percent.
WebSideStory expects IE 7 to become the dominant browser inside a year, gaining ground as Microsoft continues to roll it out through its Windows Update services.
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All versions of Internet Explorer, grouped together, claim between 85 percent and 90 percent of the worldwide browser market, according to measurements from several analytics firms. "
Websidestory makes IE share at 87% (25%+62%), and on average other web measuring sites give IE between 85 and 90%, but Webapplications still cliam IE share is just 79.09%.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=101007W1JNKK
Webapplications:
" Microsoft Internet Explorer 79.09%
Firefox 14.18% "
8% between the 2 figures is a hell of a difference isn't it?
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm
By Katie Marsal
Published: Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 11:00 AM EST
Sales of Apple Inc.'s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Crest Securities.
In a brief research note distributed to clients on Thursday, the firm cited NPD market research data which implies that year-over-year growth in Mac unit sales accelerated in January to 101 percent, up from 55 percent in December.
Meanwhile, a rise in the average selling price (ASPs) of Macs is reported to have driven even greater year-over-year dollar sales growth of 108 percent during the same time period, again, up from 55 percent in December.
"Mac ASPs grew 4 percent in January on a year-over-year basis and 1 percent sequentially," wrote analyst Andy Hargreaves. "Apple's ability to maintain stable ASPs is a strong indicator of its brand equity and consumer demand, in our view."
Hargreaves said that sales of Mac notebooks grew 194 percent year-over-year in January with a rising ASP that drove 221 percent revenue growth in the segment.
"January was the third-largest revenue month for Mac notebooks ever," he added.
The analyst noted that over the past eight quarters, the first month of NPD data has been between 7 percent and 9 percent of Apple's quarterly Mac unit sales.
"If this relationship holds in fiscal Q2 (March), Mac sales would significantly exceed our Q2 estimate of 1.495 million units," he said. Source