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Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down

by fabrika 10y ago

Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year. https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=203&qpnp=13&qptimeframe=M https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc...

Twisell 10y ago
I'm actually very curious to find out how that will turn out in the long run because another source of the same kind definitively show quite a different trend for MacOS (and IMHO more continuous & realistic) : http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201512-201612 http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201512-201612
blazespin 10y ago
https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=2014&qpnp=4&qptimeframe=Y https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc... It's not that hard to believe. Their iPad + keyboard is cannibalizing their desktop. I'd love to see iOS + Mac versus Windows + Mobile Windows
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scholia 10y ago
> Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year. Agreed. And it's by no means the first such example. However, the numbers are based on unique visitors to a range of websites. The variation might reflect a wide variation in web accesses from different operating systems (though I doubt it), but it doesn't directly measure the installed base.
anonymfus 10y ago
They weight users from different countries by CIA's total numbers of internet users in these countries. (https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Country https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Country ) So some country having a big share of internet users according to CIA and small and volatile number of users counted by Netmarketshare can be the reason. China has about 22% of internet users according to CIA. Is there a way to estimate how many are counted by Netmarketshare?

by fabrika 10y ago

Twisell 10y ago

I'm actually very curious to find out how that will turn out in the long run because another source of the same kind definitively show quite a different trend for MacOS (and IMHO more continuous & realistic) : http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201512-201612 http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201512-201612

blazespin 10y ago

https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=2014&qpnp=4&qptimeframe=Y https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc... It's not that hard to believe. Their iPad + keyboard is cannibalizing their desktop. I'd love to see iOS + Mac versus Windows + Mobile Windows

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scholia 10y ago

> Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year. Agreed. And it's by no means the first such example. However, the numbers are based on unique visitors to a range of websites. The variation might reflect a wide variation in web accesses from different operating systems (though I doubt it), but it doesn't directly measure the installed base.

anonymfus 10y ago

They weight users from different countries by CIA's total numbers of internet users in these countries. (https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Country https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Country ) So some country having a big share of internet users according to CIA and small and volatile number of users counted by Netmarketshare can be the reason. China has about 22% of internet users according to CIA. Is there a way to estimate how many are counted by Netmarketshare?