'popular is not better' its a very banal statement.
Banal? Probably. It's also somewhat different from what I wrote ;-)
Re: averages etc.: naturally, I agree.
Mavericks
I don't have screenshots handy but in December 2013 and again in January 2014, in a forum elsewhere I wrote:
Now in Mavericks we have improved battery life, performance and so on, but the public as a whole seems unexcited:
Mavericks Adoption - OS X Version Distribution - GoSquared
Why such a great percentage of users not taking advantage of a free upgrade?
This, I think, goes deeper than people waiting for .1 or .2
Last year:
Code:
October November
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 1 2
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
6 hours 2.57%
12 hours 4.39%
24 hours 7.42%
36 hours 9.20%
Before the launch, Mountain Lion was responsible for roughly half of all Mac traffic. Thats now dropped to around 40%.
Older Mac operating systems such as Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger have remained relatively unchanged.
A plateau of around sixteen percent was observed around three weeks after the release (2013-10-22) of OS X 10.9.
Early June 2014 Mavericks at 52.3 percent:
How quickly will Mac OS X Yosemite be adopted after WWDC 2014?
Reviewing OS X Mavericks adoption ahead of WWDC 2014
Yosemite
Mid-September 2014 Yosemite pre-release, Mavericks at sixty-six percent:
Review
It'll make sense to compare the figures/graphs around three weeks from now.
Friday 7th November, maybe