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Mac OS market share up 35% over last year

Apple’s Mac operating system market share is up 35 percent year-over-year from October 2005 to October 2006.  Data rounded to the nearest whole percent, actual rise is 34.6 percent.

Please note that this does not mean that Apple’s market share is 35 percent.  The number represents percent increase.  Data used in this post has been obtained from Market Share.

Key Percent Increases

* Up 52.8 percent since January 2005
* Up 48.0 percent since April 2005 (Mac OS X Tiger launched April 29, 2005)
* Up 23.8 percent January to October 2006 - despite Intel transition
* Up 10.4 percent since September 2006
* Up 20.3 percent since August 2006

I think that number goes up after Vista is released.

Comments

So what’s the ACTUAL market share?  20%?

Last good number I heard was 5.6%, but that’s still a bunch more Macs than were running last year.

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