iOS and Mac OS X market shares hit record highs

By on Oct 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM
mobile October 3, 2011

A recent report from Net Applications suggests that Apple’s iOS and Mac OS X operating systems both achieved a record high global market shares during the month of September. iOS had a global market share of 54.65% for the month, up from the 53.04% grip it had on the market in August. iOS is trailed by Java ME with an 18.52% market share, Android (16.25%)  Symbian (6.12%) and BlackBerry (3.29%). Mac OS X reached a record high 6.45% share of the operating system market during September, up from 6.03% in August, which is dominated by Microsoft’s Windows (92.44%). Linux has a fraction of the market with a small 1.11% piece of the pie. Apple is expected to take the wraps off of its next iPhone during a press conference in Cupertino on October 4th, and we’ll be reporting all the news as it breaks.

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  • Anonymous

    just change this website name iBGR.COM apple rumors everyday every sec of every hour

    • Italiano345

      Every day is two words unless used as an adjective. Let’s try working on our grammar before we mock BGR.

      • Anonymous

        Correcting grammar is another way of admitting that you have no counter argument.

      • Anonymous

        I agree with you to a point.  A simple typo or a minor grammatical error is one thing.  Calling out such issues publicly is rather pedantic and only serves to undermine one’s position in a debate.

        However, clear and consistent abuse of the English language does eventually bring the credibility of one’s opinion into question.   Take the poster in this thread that goes by the name “Jayrock” for example.  I honestly don’t mean to be insulting when I ask “Does anyone take him seriously?”.   I don’t.

  • BurleyShells

    so iOS > Android in global marketshare?

    Incoming droid fans saying how only US market share where android is dominant matters

    • Anonymous

      These numbers for iOS includes ipods, iphones and tablets. And most likely all mobile browsers that give the iphone useragents.

      So obviously Android which has almost no presence in the media player arena and just entered the tablet market would be less initially. 

      That said there really isn’t much of a story here, according to the charts iOS was 54% last year too, then went down then back up through the year. So I would estimate margin of error on this data is around 10%. 2 month ago it was 54.57%. I don’t see why 0.08% increase is making news.

      • Lo

        how to: make up data

  • http://twitter.com/Aleis Jayrock

    did u cream in your pants writing this?
    its nothing stopping android for the foreseeable future.
    you guys really should accept that. no media spin will work because, its what Bill Gates said…”you cant stop something thats popular.”

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Well the unlocked iPhone coming to all carriers is going to burry DROID OS.

      • http://twitter.com/Aleis Jayrock

        this has been screenshot. just like “the iphone coming to verizon is going to kill android” remember when its was an iphone killer debate. look how far we`ve come in deciding to go android!
        YOU ITARDS DECISION MAKING SKILLS SUCK! lol

      • Bringit

        Yeah Jayrock you rockin’ it mad style with your hat turned to the side!  Yeah man!

      • Anonymous

        I can use an iPhone without calling an android user a “tard” must be a maturity thing I suppose. Also, the iPhone is Verizon’s number one selling smartphone. Anyway, if you don’t respond right away I assume your browser just force closed or that you had to do a battery pull. Nonetheless I’ll check back later.

      • numetheus

        Ooookay let’s get bent out of shape there jazzy Jeff wanna-be.

      • http://twitter.com/Aleis Jayrock

        i cannot reply to you all so…i have to reply to myself?
        BGR sucks!
        iDigress.

      • http://daveysmind.tumblr.com David M.D.

        Because everyone in America buys unlocked phones. -__-
        That’s not a hit against iPhone, but just wondering what pipe dreams you’re clinging onto where an unlocked phone will actually make a difference in America. 

      • Anonymous

        It wont. Simple as that. It wont. There are people out there that actually dont like iPhones/pads/macs etc. Im one of them and I am not the only one. Apple cant please everybody

      • Anonymous

        Yes, I heard that same story when IP4 came to Verizon. All those Droid dudes are gonna switch to an iPhone.  Umm… it didn’t happen Ho-Ho.   Yawn…  Same old rhetoric. You’ll see the same results too.

  • Anonymous

    So you have to combine IOS and OSx to create a straw man argument?  Why would anyone post this piece of trash?  I have an ipad2 and I hate IOS.  I have pages and pages of programs and I can never find anything easily. 

    • BurleyShells

      Sounds like iOS is too difficult for you

    • Anonymous

      > I have pages and pages of programs and I can never find anything easily.

      You’re either lying or too ignorant to understand the concept of folders and spotlight search.

      BTW, you made me laugh at the notion of having too many apps. Just get an Android tablet. That should solve your problem immediately!

      • Anonymous

        no I have kids. 

      • Anonymous

        So what exactly is your solution? Is the desktop PC list of applications better? Voice recognition? There are a ton of YouTube videos of kids at 14 months old and up navigating the iPad. All it takes is to teach them the basics of navigating the UI (which is just swiping) and they’ll be fine. At a young age kids always respond more to what is visual and recognizing icons is the simplest way to accomplish that task.

      • Anonymous

        What are you talking about?  All I’m saying is that I have kids and kids put a ton of crap on the ipad and it is insanely cluttered.  My two year old has no problems swiping to find elmo and starting and playing his game. 

      • somedude0123

        My 3 year old uses the iPad just fine, come on over and she’ll school you.

      • Anonymous

        Why did you call it spotlight search? Why not just search? Fkn apple schill

      • Anonymous

        Because that is what Apple calls it. Am I supposed to call Bing, Google? If they give it a name I will respect it. Don’t be a jackass.

      • Anonymous

        Because that its name?

      • somedude0123

        Sounds like you just hate, so you’ll find any reason to spew your crap on here.

    • Anonymous

       They provided the % for iOS and OS X individually. So, where the hell do you read that it is combined market share?

    • http://dinkdoink.com Elliott

      They’re not combined. The article mentions that both made gains, but each one is compared against its competitors individually.

    • Anonymous

      Just like the typical consumer! Pages and pages of programs.

  • http://twitter.com/kg4icg Ronald Collins

    Let’s see, they combined IOS and Mac OSX, to come up with there figures? What happens when they combine Windows 7 with WP7? Let’s see those numbers? Then it be a totally different scenario.

    • Anonymous

      read

       ”iOS had a global market share of 54.65% for the month, up from the 53.04% grip.”

      “Mac OS X reached a record high 6.45% share of the operating system market during September, up from 6.03% in August, which is dominated by Microsoft’s Windows (92.44%).” 

      Where I come from that is not combining the numbers. In fact click source link 1 for Mobile report, click source 2 for PC report. Two Individual reports that never meet.

    • somedude0123

      Can you read? It’s not combined. The chart only shows iOS.

  • http://dinkdoink.com Elliott

    Did you guys saying they combined them even read the damn article?

  • Anonymous

    Please stop writing articles about Apple so we can go somewhere else and do other things. We have a co-dependency on Apple articles. We need to read them and we need to comment on them. It’s such a bad additction it hurts!

    We=Goofans (aka Apple Haters)

  • Anonymous

    I’m a little confused.  The article makes it sound like iOS has a grip of 50% of all cell phones in the world.  Now, that is complete bullshit.  Is this supposed to be Smartphone marketshare?  If so, that’s a huge difference, which I still have a hard time believing.

    • Anonymous

      @gregorylkelly:disqus - You’re making an assumption that iOS is limited to cell phones.  That’s not the case.  When you factor in iPads, iPod touches, etc. iOS numbers are apparently much larger than you think.  Outside of cell phones (where carriers are heavily subsidizing Android), Android market share is essentially negligible.  

  • Anonymous

    6.45% … pathetic.

    Stick to mobile devices apple. At least people are under the guise that your mobile devices are good

    • Anonymous

      Don’t you worry. They’ll keep on sticking to mobile devices as they watch it kill the PC.

      • http://daveysmind.tumblr.com David M.D.

        That was almost funny.

      • somedude0123

        Mobile OS’s are definately the future, let MS have the PC. That is where they belong anyway.

  • http://www.absolutefiction.com Jed Tylman

    “Mac OS X reached a record high 6.45% share”
    Wow!
    That’s huge!!!

    Almost 7%… :-)

    • Anonymous

      And yet they’re the most valuable company in the world while IBM just passed MS for third. If you’re running a business, does marketshare matter or profits?

      Profits vs. shitty hardware = Don’t believe the hype.

    • Anonymous

      And the scariest thing is that there is plenty of room to grow…

  • http://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie Jake Weisz

    Given that Android market share is double what iOS’ is… I’m not sure what crack this is. Must be good stuff.

    • Anonymous

      you are thinking about phones. This is global marketshare for iOS. That includes phones, ipods, and tablets holmes.

  • Booboolala2000

    Ither reports show 1Androis, 2iOs and 3Symbian.

  • Anonymous

    iOS = android killer. Android will be dead in two years  true story™©®

  • Shanghai Dan

    StatCounter says otherwise…

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