Wondering how many MacOSX users stick to Apple’s offer for the web: Safari. It seems that Apple’s market share is still below 5% and with Safari’s market share of maybe a bit more than 3% (see WikiPedia again) it suggests that Safari is quite successful on the Apple platform. My own stats also suggests something like 50% of Apple users to use Safari.
Somehow, often when I read about Apple’s plan, successes, market share, etc I have a déjà-vu. Somehow I heard all that hope for success on the desktop, replacement of Windows and so on for Linux years ago. And we see now which kind of niche product it still is on the desktop. Ok, there are some big organisations, institutions who use it in big installs. But for the usual user it is still not where it was promised to be long ago. Though Apple of course has a different view on computers and a completely different kind of customer base. Their pragmatism for products for the masses probably never existed for Linux, Ubuntu nowadays has gotten some momentum. But still the support of other vendors (which exists for the Apple platform) is not available for Ubuntu.
Update: Nice ArsTechnica article