Well, we aren't going to do another Tiger release. I'm hoping most people
will go to Snow Leopard (intel) given it's price. Not sure how to motivate
PPC people to upgrade to Leopard.
Tim
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Norman Gray wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Just for information, Omni, who produce a couple of well-regarded OS X
> applications, have published the OS versions reported when their applications
> phone home for updates <http://update.omnigroup.com/> (the 'Major Version'
> display is the most useful).
>
> Right now, 10.6 is 25% and rising rapidly, 10.5 is 40% and falling, and 10.4
> is 35% and largely static. That is, it appears that the majority of the 10.5
> users are converting to 10.6.
>
> The various 'Minor Versions' graphs -- in particular the 10.5 graph --
> suggest that people install updates (including Java updates, I presume)
> essentially automatically: there's a two-week time constant which
> more-or-less matches the two-week interval between (system) Software Update
> polls. This matches my perception of how folk do this upgrade.
>
> <http://adium.im/sparkle/?year=2009&week=39&graph=bar#osVersion> shows some
> different statistics -- Adium is a Jabber client. That also has 10.6 at 25%
> at present.
>
> See you,
>
> Norman
>
>
>
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Tim Jenness
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