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IOS Devices Generate 2 Percent of Global Web Traffic

February 2, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

A small, but noteworthy, milestone for iOS. According to the latest worldwide browser market-share survey by Net Applications, Apple’s mobile operating system now accounts for more than 2.06 percent of all Web browsing traffic. Interestingly, iOS appears most popular in Singapore and Australia, where it accounts for 9.98 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, of all Web browsing traffic–quite a bit more than it claims in the United Sates, where it accounts for just 3.4 percent. IOS is the third-largest source of global browsing traffic after Mac OS (5.25 percent) and Windows (89.7 percent). Google’s Android OS is the sixth, with .49 percent.

Tagged with: Android, Apple, Australia, browser, Google, Internet, iOS, John Paczkowski, Mac OS, market share, Microsoft, milestone, Net Applications, operating system, OS X, Singapore, traffic, Web traffic, Windows, worldwide

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Anonymous

I love this! Apple has the opportunity to eat into MS 95% market share! Nice
Anonymous

The Microsoft market share is only 89.5%, but 70% of those machines are 10 year old Windows XP, which will not be supported for much longer, and those users will have to move on to something entirely different. Because there is no in-place upgrade to Windows 7, and because Windows 7 is so different from Windows XP, there is definitely an opportunity for Apple to pick up more Mac users at the high end and more iPad users at the low end.
Anonymous

Nice, now thats what I am talking about!

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Still seems to me like Apple is being dragged to the party when it comes to PCs. And now they sit there on the couch looking longingly at the door. The low-end netbook space should have been Apple’s for a long time now.

By being so focused on profit margin and not on penetration they will remain a niche player in everything.

None of the disheartened Windows users that I know are even considering an Apple as their next computer. They will slink into their big box store and buy another Windows machine because most of them have never even HEARD of Steve Jobs. Apple’s appeal has and will be to the semi-technical elite. That’s nobody’s fault but Apple.

Maybe they can buy a mass market company down the line with all the money they are going to make.