Poor Mac users. After watching their market percentage climb to over ten percent according to HitsLink, they have come crashing down. Dramatically. Mac, according to the statistics provider, is actually below 5% in the world. Similar cuts were made to the Safari web browser. The changes came from a rejiggering of the way that HitsLink parsed data, to allow for a more global, and thus more accurate reading. Mac, popular in the United States, was over represented.
The PC users in the world can I please get a “told you so?” Of course, the United States tends to be a technology trend setter, and if we are the foremost Mac using population, it can be assured that Mac’s will have rising global popularity in the coming years. The introduction of blockbuster Apple products such as the iPhone to large markets such as China in the later parts of this year will also aid the ascendant Mac market share.
A final point and thought: Linux has over 1% market share. The scrappy OS that could is not giving up in any way. To the contrary, that little engine that could is growing.
