Re: Marketshare of Mac OS 10.4 vs. pre-10.4
Re: Marketshare of Mac OS 10.4 vs. pre-10.4
- Subject: Re: Marketshare of Mac OS 10.4 vs. pre-10.4
- From: Andrew Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:36:31 -0700
I wouldn't use this as a sole source but it does make a strong case
that Tiger only isn't that bad. I'm facing a similar decision. Core
Data may free me from writing massive amounts of code so I may have
no choice but to pick Tiger. Plus, if you are looking at an app that
won't release for at least 3+ months, Leopard is looming on the
horizon. This means you would really be supporting Tiger + Leopard.
Many of the indie developers seem to use the current - 1 rule (i.e.
Tiger, Panther).
These stats are interesting but there is one thing that concerns me
about them. 30%+ of the users are on Radeon x1600. That means 30%
of the Omni users bought new hardware in the past few months (and
means they are running Tiger). Omni bundles their software on new
Mac's. That could be skewing the numbers as well.
One last point. I think this came from Wil Shipley. His argument
was that if you are selling commercial software, you should target
the people that are going to pay you money. What he meant was that
users that are still on Jaguar (or even Panther) are less likely to
pay money to buy your application. They are indeed potential
customers but they obviously have reasons why they don't want to
spend even on Apple software. I think that it could mean you serve
your customers better by catering to what they have. In Omni's case,
they clearly should leverage all the Tiger features they can - their
user base is overwhelmingly up to date. No sense in putting out
effort for Panther users unless their is another statistic that says
that there is a large Panther user base that is still waiting to
upgrade (which I would submit is doubtful).
Andrew
On May 8, 2006, at 12:23 PM, j o a r wrote:
On 8 maj 2006, at 21.17, Eric wrote:
I'm wondering what's the current market share statistic for users
of Mac OS 10.4 versus previous versions of Mac OS X?
It certainly depends on what type of software / users you're
talking about!
One interesting source of information are the statistics published
by OmniGroup:
<http://update.omnigroup.com/>
j o a r
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