Market Share

Chitika: San Francisco is No. 1 Mac city, Vermont No. 1 state

Wyoming and West Virginia, at 4.19% apiece, have the lowest concentration of Apple computers

Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. PC market is still shy of 10%, according Gartner's first quarter 2011 report, but some parts of the country are more Mac friendly than others.

Drawing on research gathered between June 2 and 8 by Chitika's ad network, which serves more than than 70 million impressions per day, MacDailyNews reports that San MORE

The iPhone's vector of growth

If Apple's share of global profits is going up, others' must be going down

Last fall, Asymco's Horace Dediu introduced a new way of visualizing the dynamics of the worldwide mobile phone market.

He started with two sets of data -- market share and dollar share in 2007 and 2010 -- for the eight largest vendors in the mobile phone space, from Apple (AAPL), the smallest in 2007, to Nokia (NOK), the MORE

Your smartphone will be your new computer and bank. China's, too.

Sure, smartphones are booming, but here's how banking, enterprise and OS battles are really going to play out on the sleek gadget in your pocket.

By Mitch Cline, guest contributor

Wireless handsets have been around for decades, but this market has perhaps never had a more promising future than it does now in terms of potential market penetration, consumer demand, and global significance. Take mobile handset penetration: Globally, we're talking big-time numbers MORE

Apple & Android: 50% of smartphones

The indefatigable Horace Dediu points out on Asymco.com that although Apple's (AAPL) iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android are less than two years old as platforms, together they have captured 50.2% of what he calls "the most competitive market technology market on the planet."

Below: The same data graphed as market share.

Android grabs 22% tablet share - not!

Reports that Apple's iPad lost a big chunk of its market turn out to be premature

[CORRECTION: Samsung's Lee Young-hee was misquoted in the transcript cited by the Wall Street Journal. A tape recording of her remarks show that she was describing the Galaxy Tab's sell out as "quite smooth" not "quite small."]

Judging from Monday morning's tech headlines, Apple's (AAPL) iPad must have got clobbered last quarter.

Apple is still sucking most of the profit out of the mobile phone business

In the fourth quarter of 2010, the iPhone had 4.2% market share and took 51% of the profit

On the same day that Canalys reported that Google's (GOOG) Android had become the world's leading smartphone platform in Q4 2010 -- with 33.3% of market share to Nokia's (NOK) 31% and Apple's (AAPL) 16.2% -- Asymco's Horace Dediu posted the chart at right that puts Android's growth in perspective.

It shows the percentage MORE

Asymco: Half of the U.S. will use smartphones by the end of 2011

The data at left show phones in use (not phones sold) and come from Nielsen Co. The data at right are the projections of Asymco's Horace Dediu. If his forecasts are correct -- and they've been pretty good so far -- 50% of the U.S. population will be using smartphones by this time next year, up from less than 30% today and 18% a year ago. He estimates that one MORE

Chrome closes in on 10% share (and new version 8 launched)

Chrome almost doubled its market share this year taking percentage points from both Internet Explorer and Firefox

Google's Chrome browser continues its steady upward climb in browser market share, according to a report published today by NetApplications.

A big part of that share acceleration was Chrome 7, which registered strong growth since its launch a few months ago.

Google Chrome 7.0 gained 5.64% global usage share in November, which is the second highest MORE

With iPad, Apple is No. 3 in portables

If you count tablets as notebook PCs, Apple just passed Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and Dell

Apple is usually considered an also-ran in the global PC market.

But the chart at right, taken from a note to clients issued Friday by Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore, tells a very different story.

Whitmore believes that investors will increasing include tablet computers when assessing market share trends, and this diagram illustrates what that might look like.

Starting with MORE

Android growth continues in June

The iPhone 4 launch doesn't seem to have slowed the growth of the AndroidOS.

Quantcast released its June numbers yesterday, indicating that the Android platform continued to outgrow the other smartphone vendors in web traffic.  That's in line with last week's report from comScore.

The growth was largely at the expense of Apple's iOS, which still has a sizeable lead on the rest of the mobile operating systems. Apple is at MORE