In June, Apple’s market share for Mac OS X hit 7.94 percent, according to Net Applications. At its current growth rate of 0.18 percent per month, this means that the Mac should claim 8 percent of the global desktop operating system market by the end of July. Linux, while still holding a tiny 0.8 percent share, is also rising.

The only major desktop OS to decline? Windows. In fact, as the Inquirer notes, while the Mac is up 32 percent, Windows XP actually declined a full percentage point while Vista scraped together a measly 2.56 percent. Overall? Windows was down 2.45 percent.

Mac sales are outpacing Personal computer sales at 3.5 times faster rate. Two big questions are looming:

1. At what point will the momentum accelerate even faster? In other words, what’s the tipping point for Mac adoption?
2. Is Apple set up to handle this success? Does it want it?

… Source:The Open Road

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