Not surprisingly, Safari also saw a decline from last month, and again, one could argue this is circumstantial evidence of PPC users transitioning to Intel. Net Applications had some problems displaying the data on its website, but it sure looks like there was a big drop in people using Safari 1 and Safari 2. Users of those browsers would have been far more likely to be using a PPC Mac, at least one would hope so… running Leopard and Safari 3 on a G3 *shudder*.
The logic follows that those users who recently upgraded to an Intel Mac would have taken their ancient PPC Macs offline. It s a theory, anyway. Finally, the iPhone saw another increase in usage of 0.01 percent, which puts it at 0.14 percent. Keep in mind the iPhone is classified as an operating system, so it s not an utterly insignificant number, unless you are Linux with a 0.65 percent market share. Next month s earnings report will be interesting.
Analysts are predicting another 2 million Mac quarter. Considering the drop in stock price over the last two months, Apple had better not disappoint. March numbers from Net Applications might be very interesting indeed.
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