Apple's Market Share Rises Up 24 Percent Year Over Year

After other various reports on the trends of Apple's market share over the past year, Switch To A Mac has published a detailed thorough report that combines "relevant metrics from Apple's earnings reports and product launches over the past several quarters to provide further insight into the matter."

Other reports have seen Apple's market share as being constant throughout the past year, while other have shown increases, which is mostly down to how the data is collected and analyzed. According to the Switch To A Mac report, Apple had at least a 24.4 percent year-over-year increase in market share for every month from August 2005 to August 2006.

Other interesting figures include:
Key Percentages:
￭ Up 27 percent since January 2005
￭ Up 23 percent since April 2005 (Mac OS X Tiger launched April 29, 2005)
￭ Up 2.9 percent January to August 2006 - despite Intel transition

Apple's market share is on a significant upswing, with growth of over 23.5 percent during a year of great changes for the products they sell. This growth is expected to continue for the remainder of this calendar year and beyond, now that the hardware has stabilized once again. Not bad for a company that was supposed to be dead in the water just ten years ago.