Mikey Campbell
According to recently published statistics, Apple's latest OS X Yosemite release is seeing slightly better take up rates than last year's OS X Mavericks launch, with current North American distribution pegged at 12.8 percent as of Wednesday.
The results, provided by the research arm of ad network Chitika, found OS X Yosemite accounted for more than one percent of all North American Web traffic generated by OS X users on launch day. This is more than double first-day adoption rates set by Apple's prior OS X Mavericks and OS X Mountain Lion releases.
Chitika points out that the slightly higher uptake could be a result of higher Mac sales over the past year. Last week, Apple announced it sold 5.5 million Macs over the three months ending in September, an all-time record. The performance smashed Apple's previous record set in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, when the company sold 4.9 million Mac computers.
As for the disparity in Web traffic compared to OS X Mountain Lion, the research firm notes the two-year-old operating system was a $19.99 upgrade from OS X Lion, potentially prompting slower initial uptake. Since Mavericks, Apple has made OS X updates free to download from the Mac App Store.
Apple released OS X Yosemite on Oct. 16 with a new "flat" aesthetic and support for so-called "Continuity" features that integrate tightly with iOS 8. For example, users can now place and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS texts and create instant hotspots with a connected iPhone.
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I started to update my iMac 27 and MBA 13 on Oct 17, with clean install and TM migration. However, the migrated account is just too slow. I have visited genius bar several times, and phone Apple Care support 4 times. I guess I spent their time more than I paid for the care. I learned so much about the update, migration and manual copy over from TM to a new account. Movies, pictures and documents could be done by drag-drop, however, all mails, contacts, calendar, dock settings, app settings (such as terminal schema) are not easy to be migrated by manual way. Anyway, eventually, they cannot resolve the issue and recommended me to roll back to Mavericks OS.
I think I will wait a few more weeks and maybe even until .1 or .2 Everything is working well for me and nothing I can't live without. I also need to do some massive cleaning and moving things around before I update. I want to do a clean install and move things over manually and carefully to get rid of some cruft that has undoubtedly collected in my system folders.
Adoption rate might be faster if people were able to download it: http://forum.telus.com/t5/Internet-TV-Home-Phone/slow-and-unreliable-downloads-from-Apple-Content-Distribution/m-p/47829 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6610987?start=30&tstart=0 "Yosemite download is insanely slow (nothing wrong with my network)" I'm one of those people who are getting only 100Kb downloads. Yes Kb. For whatever reason, even if I override the download location to another CDN point, still only 100Kb/sec. Yet If I grab the complete URL it wants from wireshark and download it from a machine I have in the US, oh look 2 minute download. In the case of Telus, they say the problem isn't on their side.
Put it on my home machine, early 2011 MBP, nice and easy and no issues since.
Adoption rate might be faster if people were able to download it:
http://forum.telus.com/t5/Internet-TV-Home-Phone/slow-and-unreliable-downloads-from-Apple-Content-Distribution/m-p/47829
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6610987?start=30&tstart=0
"Yosemite download is insanely slow (nothing wrong with my network)"
I'm one of those people who are getting only 100Kb downloads. Yes Kb.
For whatever reason, even if I override the download location to another CDN point, still only 100Kb/sec. Yet If I grab the complete URL it wants from wireshark and download it from a machine I have in the US, oh look 2 minute download.
In the case of Telus, they say the problem isn't on their side.
Of course it's on their side. I've downloaded Yosemite in multiple locations, times, and on multiple networks and providers. It has been insanely fast each and every time, usually saturating the connection. I very much doubt these niche cases are having an effect on adoption.