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OS X Mavericks Adoption Pushing Toward 50%
Just five months after its release, OS X Mavericks is seeing adoption rates in the range of 40 percent to almost 50 percent depending on the tracking source. The significant growth in Mavericks users demonstrates the benefits of Apple's move to drop the price of its latest OS X update to zero in an effort to encourage users to upgrade.
Analytics firm Chitika is out with a new report today showing Mavericks usage at 40 percent of page impressions in the United States and Canada over the week of March 17-23. Apple's three previous operating system versions split almost all of the remaining 60 percent of the Mac user base nearly evenly.
Chitika is not the only analytics company tracking OS X usage, as GoSquared continues to maintain its tracker offering a real-time look at the distribution of OS X versions appearing on its network of sites. GoSquared is seeing an even higher rate of adoption for Mavericks of around 48 percent, with a similar even split of the three previous versions all around 15-16 percent.
Net Applications is yet another analytics firm with a significant user base to measure data from, and that firm saw Mavericks with a 45 percent share of the OS X base in its February data.
Analytics firm Chitika is out with a new report today showing Mavericks usage at 40 percent of page impressions in the United States and Canada over the week of March 17-23. Apple's three previous operating system versions split almost all of the remaining 60 percent of the Mac user base nearly evenly.
Almost exactly five months following Mavericks’ release, the operating system’s users are generating 40% of U.S and Canadian Mac OS X-based Web traffic, a figure that dramatically outpaces Mavericks’ predecessor, OS X Mountain Lion. At 40%, the share of OS X Web traffic generated by Mavericks users is approximately six percentage points higher than what OS X Mountain Lion achieved nearly 14 months following its public debut, and 13 percentage points higher [than] what was recorded at the seven-month mark.The report notes that while Mavericks is seeing strong upgrade rates relatively to previous versions of OS X, Mac adoption rates are much slower than seen for iOS, where 85 percent of devices are now running iOS 7. This disparity is likely due to a number of factors, including longer lifespans for Macs that may leave a higher percentage of machines ineligible for the latest OS version, as well as a more varied user base than may not be as tech savvy as mobile users and thus less likely to upgrade.
Chitika is not the only analytics company tracking OS X usage, as GoSquared continues to maintain its tracker offering a real-time look at the distribution of OS X versions appearing on its network of sites. GoSquared is seeing an even higher rate of adoption for Mavericks of around 48 percent, with a similar even split of the three previous versions all around 15-16 percent.
Net Applications is yet another analytics firm with a significant user base to measure data from, and that firm saw Mavericks with a 45 percent share of the OS X base in its February data.
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70 months ago
I wonder why the Lion and Mountain Lion users didn't upgrade? The Snow Leopard group is understandable.
70 months ago
That seems pretty low tbh
Compare with iOS 7 adoption rate, this is low. But if you compare with Windows 8 adoption rate, this is high... Σ(●ﾟдﾟ●)
70 months ago
I wonder why the Lion and Mountain Lion users didn't upgrade? The Snow Leopard group is understandable.
Many Snow Leopard users did not upgrade, because they still need the ability to run PowerPC native applications on their Mac. This ability was taken away in Lion, and Mountain Lion as well as Mavericks do not allow it either. To run a PowerPC native app, you must have 10.6.8 or earlier.
A prime example of this is AppleWorks. It will not run on Lion or later, since Rosetta support has been pulled from the OS.
70 months ago
I know people who have reasons to stay on Snow Leopard and also Mountain Lion.
But who are all these sorry folks still using Lion? I'm surprised it's hanging on in numbers equal to Snow Leopard.
But who are all these sorry folks still using Lion? I'm surprised it's hanging on in numbers equal to Snow Leopard.
70 months ago
"OS X Mavericks Adoption Pushing Toward 50%"
"X Mavericks Users Generate 40% of Mac Web Traffic Five Months Post-Release"
These are very, very different statements.
There are tens of millions of Macs out there running early OS X and pre OS X systems, which are switched on half an hour each evening to read a few emails and perhaps some light surfing.
"X Mavericks Users Generate 40% of Mac Web Traffic Five Months Post-Release"
These are very, very different statements.
There are tens of millions of Macs out there running early OS X and pre OS X systems, which are switched on half an hour each evening to read a few emails and perhaps some light surfing.
70 months ago
I'll probably upgrade soon. I refuse to be a beta tester when it's first released :D.
moj's First Rule Of OS X: Don't Touch It With A Bargepole Until There's A '.2' On The End
70 months ago
I wonder why the Lion and Mountain Lion users didn't upgrade? The Snow Leopard group is understandable.
Because
- all our apps run on ML just fine, incl. Parallels
- we've heard horror stories of the new OS' RAM usage / speed / bugs.
So: why bother if Lion / ML runs just fine, without kernel panics etc?
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