The 10% includes enterprise education (vs students personal systems). You can bet students are already rolling on or into Mavericks. My son and all of his friends VCU already are loaded up on 10.9
And yes, edu is that portion of the 10% that Apple holds dear, you are exactly right.
But as far as small business (SOHO), and business units operating somewhat independently of the enterprise (product design in Texas Instruments for example), the upgrade effort is trivial by contrast to any Windows update with the benefits of staying current enormous for those that make their living off of being productive and driving products to market for profits. 99% of the world is very different in that regard.
Starting 10-June we have all had 10 developer preview releases (counting the “GM” as DP 10). 4 months later we really should be well prepared at this point and executing a roll out plan and prepared with a fall back plan for isolated circumstances.
I left a business in TX which did exactly this for many ad agencies, print shops, industrial design firms, fortune 500s (JC Penny, TI, American Air) and others. My customers would all be updated in the first 2 weeks typically; and where update needed repair prior, those individuals would be fully informed of the need for wait and kept in the loop until they were updated like everyone else around them.
I would wager there are those on this list, largely silent, that are in process right now.
Check this out… Mav is seeing over 3 times the adoption rate as did Mt. Lion 24 hrs after launch. Ironically it looks like a huge blue wave (tsunami?). Surf’s up on Mavericks beach and the water is quite warm! <grin>
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On 25-Oct-2013, at 9:24, Taylor Armstrong - NOAA Affiliate < email@hidden> wrote: While I don't disagree, I would also say that focusing on the 1% of the market that is .gov misses the point. .com (business/enterprise) is also affected by this to some extent, so raise your 1% to some portion of the full 10%. Next, .edu is certainly affected - it is no trivial task to upgrade a college campus, or a middle school district of thousands of systems to a new OS - expect it to only occur during the Summer break. Suddenly, we're looking at more than 10% of the market affected. Realistically, yes, Apple's time is probably better spent focusing on the 90%, but we (.gov) are not all alone in this concern - when you include the affected customers from small business to enterprise to primary and secondary .edu, we are talking about millions of affected customers.
Taylor
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