Apple's seeing significant online success, with the latest Net Applications market share data confirming rapid rise in Safari usage and more share for the Mac platform.
The web statistics for May 2008 reveal Mac OS to have hit an all-time marketshare high, with a 7.83 per cent share of the operating systems visiting Net Applications' network of websites. Apple's iPhone share also climbed, to 0.16 per cent, while the iPod touch achieved 0.03 per cent share, says Mac Daily News.
Net Applications reports: "Apple has confirmed that its online inventories for the original version of the iPhone are sold out in the US and UK. Apple appears to be clearing out its inventories in preparation for the iPhone 2.0 release. This, in conjunction with customers holding off purchasing until 2.0 is released has temporarily leveled off the iPhone usage share."
Intel Macs accounted for 5.02 per cent share, while PowerPC Macs took 2.81 per cent, the report claims.
Good news too for Apple's Safari browser. Online use of the browser achieved an all-time high of 6.25 per cent last month, retaining its third place position behind Firefox (18.41 per cent) and Internet Explorer (73.75 per cent). Safari's share last month was 5.81 per cent, reports Surfin' Safari.
"This growth, combined with recent WebKit adoption in projects such as the Iris Browser, Qt 4.4, Android, Adobe AIR, Epiphany, KDE Plasma, iCab and more, is breathtaking and shows huge positive momentum for the WebKit project," that report explains.
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