First Week OS X Yosemite Adoption Rates Slightly Outpacing Mavericks

grahamperrin · Nov 5, 2014

Adoption rate: graphs of recent traffic

Back on topic we're not at the three-week mark yet, but traffic might be settling around an average of twenty-five percent, measured by GoSquared

haddy · Nov 5, 2014

deceiver9 said:
I'm getting improved performance with Yosemite on my mid 2011 iMac, 2.7mhz 12 gigs. and 250 SSD.

Faster than Mavericks. I'm usually apprehensive about system updates on older machines. I had a bad experience going from 10.4 to 10.5 on an older powerbook. Slowed it up a lot. But Yosemite is clean looking, faster, and has some nice features. And Safari is now my fastest browser. I've had no stability issues. No restarts needed.

It also came on the new mac mini hooked up to my TV (8gigs). Just as as fast and no issues. I'm running some oddball stuff, Vuze, popcorn time, VLC, that you don't often see on some mac systems. Even those open source things are running cleanly. All and all I'm very satisfied.

Totally agree.....for me Yosemite is the best 10.X operating system. It's up there with 9.2 in terms of speed (snapinest).
late 2012 27" iMac maxed out..32GB RAM

B4U · Nov 7, 2014

teslo said:
i agree totally - what's yours look like? i get gray pixel streaks down finder windows that are compiling a new list (like from switching folders in the sidebar).. i use the 1680 resolution and have automatic graphics switching disabled because i'm afraid of it (having had kernel panic problems in the past). hoping things smooth out graphically, cause everything else i've tried works perfectly.

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my experience with Lion and Mavericks kinda blew, but i feel like yosemite is more on par with snow leopard in terms of stability

Front Row and Rosetta...why did they have to remove it?

Again, the new "Flat" design is a big no go for me...

JackieInCo · Nov 7, 2014

I'm still not ready to upgrade yet. I bought my Mac Mini two months ago and upgraded it to Mavericks. I'm happy with that. I'm still running the previous version of iTunes because I'm not ready to give up the side pane.

steve333 · Nov 7, 2014

JackieInCo said:
I'm still not ready to upgrade yet. I bought my Mac Mini two months ago and upgraded it to Mavericks. I'm happy with that. I'm still running the previous version of iTunes because I'm not ready to give up the side pane.

Don't upgrade until the next update is applied, you'd be better off

JackieInCo · Nov 7, 2014

steve333 said:
Don't upgrade until the next update is applied, you'd be better off

Thanks. I plan on waiting for several months at least.

grahamperrin · Nov 8, 2014

AndreSt said:
The statistics of GoSquared shows almost no growth in Yosemite adoption. As it's weekend time and some might try their luck with Yosemite, the adoption spikes near 30% for the first time. But it's very likely this number will fall again.

I think Apple is well aware of these facts.

Agreed.

Also, the peak-above-peak measurements
28.27% (Tuesday 2014-10-21),
29.10% (Friday 2014-10-31), and so on; and sometimes there's a measurement above the peak above a peak (first and second screenshots below).

*the measurement of greater than one hundred percent may be taken as a hint to not take these measurements too seriously

Partron22 said:
Ignoring initial rush, slope is about 0.79% per day.
Should hit 50% by Dec 5 or so, unless there's a large population of what Apple would call "incurable reactionaries."

I never measured the slope for Mavericks, here's a graph:

grahamperrin · Nov 30, 2014

GoSquared measurements from 2014-11-28 and 2014-11-30

leman said:
I think that the most reasonable explanation is that the swings represent pings from different continents/timezones (or maybe also private vs work machines?). It would be really nice to actually get the raw data from gosquared though.

For the daily peaks in Mavericks traffic, I had similar guesses. Not exactly pings I assume that the platform detection is web browser-oriented.

The raw data might be purchased but I don't expect it to be published.

2014-11-28 00-54-44 screenshot.png

2014-11-28 00-55-01 screenshot.png

2014-11-30 15-19-25 screenshot.png

grahamperrin · Jan 21, 2015

Adoption rates around the times of release of 10.9.1 and 10.10.1

OldGuyTom said:
I looked at GoSquared and it looks like Yosemite's rise has pretty much leveled off at 40%, which is still pretty high. The curve shows what might be a reverse migration back to Mavericks occurring, but it's so small and over such a short period of time it might just be an oddity.

TheBSDGuy said:
If you scroll down to the bottom of the GoSquared page, there's link to see Mavericks adoption rate. If you look at it, Mavericks went flat between May and July at approximately 50-55%, then it resumed its rise to top out in the 65-69% range.

Sales typically go flat during the summer, and go up during the fall, and especially around Christmas. Assuming new Apple systems all have Yosemite installed, it's possible their adoption might be somewhat inflated due to a holiday season blitz. Also you can't tell how many are not using Yosemite because of appearance or bugs with the OS.

Time will tell. If the Yosemite adoption rate starts going down with all the rest going up, probably Mavericks being the most likely to recover, then it would be a clear indication with dissatisfaction of the OS.

When I took the June 2014 screenshot of the GoSquared measurement of Mavericks

I didn't give much thought to the leap of around nine percent in mid-December 2013. In retrospect, I guess that it represented:

the self-restraint, the caution, that people showed before the 2013-12-16 release of OS X 10.9.1
a relatively carefree rush to install 10.9.1.

No such leap with Yosemite, no carefree rush following the mid-November 2014 release of OS X 10.10.1.

I don't imagine a nine percent leap when 10.10.2 is released.

Carefree no more? The changes to the Mac experience are quite saddening.

grahamperrin · Jan 22, 2015

The last thirty days

Partron22 said:
Ignoring Thanksgiving and the regular morning data blip, Yosemite adoption looks to be increasing linearly since mid October. It's now surpassed Mavericks, and shows no sign of a "disatisfied customer base" plateau.

If there was a linear increase in the last thirty days, I can't see it:

steve333 · Jan 22, 2015

Safari has gotten really bad, hanging on sites forever, spinning ball, crashing.
I'm going to have to switch browsers if their next update doesn't fix things but I really don't want to.
Apple, you don't have enough money to pay people smart enough to fix what you broke with Yosemite?
Pathetic

grahamperrin · Jan 23, 2015

Related topics (orientation)

steve333 said:
Safari hanging spinning ball,

crashing.

There are a few topics about crashes of Safari 8.

Please post details to the Yosemite sub-forum.

enough money to pay people smart enough

There's neither a shortage of money nor a shortage of smart people.

steve333 · Jan 23, 2015

grahamperrin said:
Spinning pinwheel with Safari

Safari Spinning Wheel of Death?

Get spinning beach ball as soon as I open Safari

spinning beachball in safari

There are a few topics about crashes of Safari 8.

Please post details to the Yosemite sub-forum.

There's neither a shortage of money nor a shortage of smart people.

I will check those out, thanks.
If the money and smart people are there it shouldn't take this long to fix it, IMO and shouldn't have been released to the wild half baked

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