Continued rise of mobile browsing
The latests marketshare data from NetApplications is available, and while there has been a small increase in the Mac desktop share over the year up to 6.53%, perhaps the more interesting feature is the steady rise of mobile browsing. Over the year there has been a 50% increase in the use of mobile devices (smartphones+tablets) from less than 5% to 7.3%. Much of this is driven by iOS which now accounts for 63% of the mobile market share.
Looking at the weblog for the Macinchem website the results are similar with iOS accounting for over 7% of the visitors, software vendors need to think about support for mobile platforms if they have not already.
FierceBiotechIT on Apple in Life Sciences
It looks like the iPad is opening doors for Apple in the Biosciences.
There's mounting evidence that drug companies are changing the way they consume new tech, and one prime example of this shift is the industry's well-documented affection for Apple's iPad. Pharma companies are buying the tablets by the thousands, doling them out to sales reps and executives, some of whom probably already own the popular devices.
Read more: Pharma's iPad attraction marks tech adoption shift - FierceBiotechIT http://www.fiercebiotechit.com/story/pharmas-ipad-attraction-marks-tech-adoption-shift/2012-04-05#ixzz1rZGxpPVhWhen the research firm asked more than 100 top life sciences companies about their plans for buying tech hardware in 2012, more than 30% of respondents expected to purchase Apple products, up 220% since 2009.
Read more: Apple emerges as 'dominant' life sciences IT player - FierceBiotechIT http://www.fiercebiotechit.com/story/apple-emerges-dominant-life-sciences-it-player/2012-04-03#ixzz1rZIGrYS1
Net Applications Mac global market share
The latest data from Net Applications is in, Mac OS X is up to around 7% whilst Windows is now down to just below 92%.
iOS continues to dominate the mobile/tablet market (60%), with Android (19%) and Java ME (14%) being the only others in to double figures.
Net Application market share
The January market share data is out from Net Applications.
The desktop share is dominated by Widows (92%) and Mac OSX (6.4%), interestingly nearly 50% of the Windows machines are still operating XP.
The remorseless rise in the use of mobile platforms continues with mobile/tablet browsing now up to 8.8% an increase of over 1% over last month and more than 100% over the year. iOS continues to dominate (53.6%) with Java (19%) and Android (18%) juggling for second place. Blackberry is now down to 2.6% and falling rapidly.
Gains for Mac and iOS share.
There is a big surge in Mac usage up half a percent to 6.95% this increase is at the expense of Windows now down to 91.86%.
Over the last 12 months Mac usage has risen from 5.1% to 6.95% an all time high. Mac usage in North America is now 13.32%.
In the mobile/tablet arena iOS continues to dominate, now up to 61.6%, JavaME the long time main rival has now fallen to 12.8% and is now behind Android at 18.9%. As might be expected after all the recent problems Blackberry usage drops to 2.48%.
The continued rise of iOS
Mac OS also increased to 5.61% up 0.24% on last months figure.
These gains are largely at the expense of Windows now down to 87.6%.
The same trend is seen for Web Browsers with IE down nearly 1% with Chrome up to 13.49% (+ 0.38%) and Safari 8.1% (+ 0.62%) showing major gains.
Net Applications market share
Latest Market Share from Net Applications
iOS market share shows impressive gains
End of year internet market share
The continued rise of iOS
Latest Data from Net Applications
iOS overtakes Linux
