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Safari Beta Takeup Tops Firefox, IE and Chrome

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-won't-last dept.

nk497 writes "The release of the beta for the next version of Apple's Safari browser last week helped drive Apple's market share above ten per cent. The Safari beta has gained users at a rate of about 0.5 per cent a day since its release, topping one per cent by day four. For comparison, Microsoft's beta of IE took six months to hit one percent, Chrome needed almost a month, and Firefox 3 took a week."

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  1. Sticking with Safari 3 by argent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Until they fix the title-bar abuse, I'm sticking with Safari 3.

  2. Re:Not convinced these are genuine users by Assmasher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it just did when I just updated iTunes about 15 minutes ago. I do NOT have Safari on this machine and it had ticked Safari as a 23MB (iirc) 'update' that was in the bottom half of the dialog off on its own. Nice of them to check mark that download for my own good, eh? ;)

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  3. Re:I'm getting old, I don't understand the New Mat by k.a.f. · · Score: 3, Interesting

    about 0.5 per cent a day... topping one per cent by day four

    So, they started out with -1% market share?

  4. Re:I'm getting old, I don't understand the New Mat by mdwh2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wrote a long post which appears to have been eaten. In summary:

    Even allowing for rounding, the growth per day must be less than 0.26125%. Their other statistics are quoted accurately, indeed, to not just 1, but 2 decimal places. There is no way it is reasonable to represent the growth as "almost 0.5%" per day.

    I'm not sure how we can trust an article that doesn't get basic maths right.

    Secondly, their article is a blatant lie - the original source http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0 lists Safari as 7.42% (the other browsers are all reported accurately).