Report: iOS Driving Apple Market Share

The latest data from web metrics firm Net Applications reinforces the notion that iOS is the future for Apple, and Mac OS X is the past.

A year ago, OS X accounted for 5.12 percent of the overall OS market, according to Net Applications. In the year since, OS X has gone has high as 5.33 percent, as low as 5.00 percent, and is now at 5.03 percent. In contrast, a year ago “iPhone OS” was at 0.35 percent, and since then, has seen both a name change to iOS and a near tripling of share at 1.18 percent.

Last month, iOS passed Linux, taking third in market share after OS X and, of course, Windows. While iOS won’t pass Mac OS X this year, next year isn’t beyond the realm of the possible. Apple will likely sell between 12 and 15 million Macs in 2011, compared with somewhere between 75 and 100 million iOS devices.

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