OneStat.com: Safari global usage nearly doubled

[nighthawk]

Story from MacCentral:

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/20/onestat/index.php?redirect=1074607904000

[nighthawk]

Some how these numbers just don't add up. If Apple is selling about 3% of the personal computer market, how can the Safari browser only have 0.48% of the world wide market.

Is this just because the general OSX public is still using IE?

[MoparShaha]

Mac users who use OS X are still in the minority. I think Steve said only 40% of the userbase use OS X.

[coolsoldier]

If everyone out there was using a brand new computer, we would probably see Safari use at the same percentage as Mac use, but since IE (not Safari) is the default browser for OS 9 and all of the OS X's before 10.3, it's not much of a surprise. It's actually pretty amazing if a sixth of the Mac user base is running the newest version of OS X.

[Mr. Anderson]

Better stats would be to see what all the 'Mac' sites use. I imagine that number would be quite different.

Maybe it will double again in 6 months.

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[ExoticFish]

although i primarily use safari, i do you mozilla quite a bit as well. same with a lot of other people i know. plus there's icab, camino, omniweb and other choices out there for Mac.