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I'd look for the biggest jump in the next year to come from iPod. I bet Apple is going to sell a ton of Touches this year and when kids start using it to get online instead of their laptops, the number jump will be huge.

Dec 01, 08 - 01:03 pm Comment from: SirROM

Wow, maybe if Blackberry had a better browser, it would be somewhere above 0.00%. Now there's a Storm for ya...

Dec 01, 08 - 01:24 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

Safari for Blackberry! Come on Apple, help RIM out

Some would say the numbers prove IE 10x better than Safari, hogwash..

Dec 01, 08 - 01:51 pm Comment from: Cubert

WOW! And I'll even say it backwards - WOW!

IE below 70%. I wonder how long it will take until it gets below 50%?

More importantly, what kind of desperate shady tactics will M$ resort to when that happens?

Dec 01, 08 - 01:59 pm Comment from: MacRaven

Tell us which websites these are, we need to click on them more often.

Hey... why not do the rendering engine... WebKit is the rendering engine for Chrome so you could add another .83 for a nice 7.96%

Heck not too shabby

How much of Safari was on Macs and how much on Windows?

Dec 01, 08 - 02:43 pm Comment from: Buster

Buh-bye IE
Hello Safari
It's great to see
You replacing IE

Dec 01, 08 - 02:46 pm Comment from: MrScrith

wow, both Firefox and Safari doubled their market in ... a little over 2 years... that is awesome news!

The main problem that is stopping SAFARI from growing faster is that some companies rely on IE technologies for their transactions (like some tech support or banks, or even some of our intranets) so once those IT guys stops scratching their heads and start working on transporting their APIs into webkit, we will see IE finally gone below 10% real fast.

Dec 01, 08 - 04:43 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

Things are getting better. Safari - who cares which version - is gaining share. The iPhone is gaining share. IE is surrendering share. It won't be TOO long now before enterprise IT figures out that the complaints are making their way up to the C-class execs - or, maybe, are originating with them. You can only tell a C-class exec once or twice that "our web site only supports the 'industry standard' browser" before they get rather pointy about saying "and why IS that?".
Interesting that the iPhone accomplishes more browsing than the half-dozen "competitors" ... combined.

Interesting conversation with a friend who is a web developer with a company that does considerable work for MS. What he told me was very interesting. He said that they and indeed increasing numbers of web developers now write their code to be Firefox compliant and then bend it to work with IE rather than the other way around. It seems that web compliance is now the overwhelming consideration for them and IE's non conformity is working against it. Microsoft's hegemony attempt seems totally busted. All they can do now is play catch up and hope that they can keep as much market share as they can without being able to force 'thier' compliance on everyone else.

Webkit's mobile dominance will only further this now inevitable turn of events.

Camino?

@Question

"How much of Safari was on Macs and how much on Windows?"

How much of Firefox was on Macs and how much on Windows?

Microsoft could dramatically increase their market share if they brought back a version of Internet Explorer for Mac.

Dec 01, 08 - 10:24 pm Comment from: Olmecmystic

@FUDsucker Proxy:

I've got Firefox on my iMac, but it's in Windoze XP Pro (via Parallels). I've got IE in Windoze only (rarely used).

I've got Safari on my iMac via Leopard AND via Windoze XP Pro.

How many of those people are just like me and what does that do to the numbers?

Peace.
Olmecmystic

That's 7.13% who can't book a room at an Accor hotel.

Where do companies find these immature geeks who have to use the latest little tweaks to code a corporate website.