According to AppleInsider, a new U.S.-centric study has shown that Macs now has a 12% of home market share, up from 9% in 2008. The study, which had 2,300 online panelists, also showed that 85% of households who own Macs also owned a Windows machine. It was also shown that Mac households tend to own three or more computers (66% vs 29% of Windows PC households) and tend to be more mobile than Windows PC-only household (72% vs 50%).
Data from NetApplications show that one month after the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 18.45% or nearly one-fifth of all Macs are running the latest Mac OS. Web statistics data also show that Snow Leopard comprises 0.91% of global share of Internet usage as of September 29. Worldwide Mac share has jumped from 4.87% in August to 5.12% in September. Meanwhile, an NPD report has shown that sales of Mac OS X 10.6 was twice as high as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and four times higher than Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger most possibly due to the $29 price tag on Snow Leopard.
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