Research firm are used to carry out all sorts of surveys including gems such as 'Do you use your phone in bathroom' to very
insightful studies like 'do you browse web while watching TV'. However, this week two studies came out with not-so-nonsense data. First study came from the House of Gartner and it is related to Operating System revenue share. It covered both desktop and server operating systems and declared Microsoft a clear winner. The Redmond company sits pretty on 78.6 percent revenue generated by the operating systems worldwide.
However, the study does not concerns itself with the market share but with the revenue share and therefore the companies with low priced operating systems or open source operating systems were automatically relegated to the bottom. But hey, market prices the product according to the utility generated by it. The premise may be flawed but that's how it rolls. Microsoft managed to increase its share. Last year, the company had cornered about 69 percent revenue generated by the operating systems. However, Red Hat and Mac OS posted even better growth rate. We can hear the danger sirens for Windows.
Another important study was regarding Tablets, though it came up with the very prosaic and predictable results i.e. Apple with its iPad owns the tablet market. Well, thanks, guess we really do not need a fully fledged study to know this. However, the point worth noting is that Apple is no longer in possession of that lofty 90%+ market share. Its current market share hovers around 74 percent.
The study, conducted by research firm Canalys, however, noted that the survey data pertained to the first quarter of the year and did not contain the full impact of the iPad 2 launch, since the tablet came out pretty late in the quarter. It also looks like the smaller market share was not due to the lack in demand but due to the lack of supply. Anyways, we do not see any danger to iPad 2 in the near future, especially not after witnessing the disastrous debuts of the so-called iPad killers, Xoom and PlayBook.