Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, Apple

Fortune has the latest market share figures for December (according to a survey by Net Applications), and it’s good news all around for Apple– Mac systems jumped from a 6.8 share to 7.3, a 7.35% increase. Which is actually nothing compared to the iPhone, which jumped 33%, or even the Playstation, which jumped 50%.

Wait a minute, the Playstation? Where are they getting these numbers from? Apparently Net Applications gets these figures by monitoring browser knowledge from sites tracking their hits through their products (of which Hitslink is one). So a jump for “Mac” systems doesn’t mean a jump in sales figures, or even ownership– all it means is that more folks whose browsers reported them as Macs visited Hitslink sites […]

Orginal post by Mike Schramm