New numbers released by analytics firm Chitika have revealed that public adoption of OS X Yosemite has been very similar to that of its predecessor, Mavericks. According to the stats, Mavericks achieved an install base of 12.4% in North America in its first week. Yosemite is performing slightly better, coming in at 12.8% in the same period of time.
The last of the “big cat” releases, OS X Mountain Lion, was only at 5.6% during its first week in public release. That could be due to the fact that it was considered an incremental upgrade over Lion and cost $19.99, whereas the two newer versions (especially Yosemite) were much larger releases and were both available for free to all users.
It’s not clear if the tiny boost in adoption rates was due to the public beta of the operating system released earlier this year, or simply from more people downloading it to see the new design and iOS continuity features. If you haven’t upgraded to OS X Yosemite yet, you can upgrade any compatible Mac for free from the Mac App Store.
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Well Chitika explains its methodology on its website. Their samples “normally” consist of 300.000 page impressions. Don’t you guys have your own 300k pis you could examine?
Do not install if you are on old Mac! It almost killed my mid 2010 13 inch MacBook pro. It was super slow, I can still boot up and use it. In disk utility, it saids I need to repair my disk, then it saids it was unable to repair it. So now I need to reformat and clean install…..
I installed it on my early 2008 MacBook Pro and it’s phenomenal. It even increased my battery life by around 25min.
I installed in my Macbook Pro Mid 2010 and it’s fantastic! Before upgrade to Yosemite, you should to upgrade your Mac with SSD disk. The difference is “from water to wine”!