Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
- Subject: Re: Universal Binary that runs on 10.3.x and up on PPC and 10.4.1 and up on Intel
- From: Steve Sisak <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:16:14 -0400
At 2:59 PM -0700 7/17/05, Creed Erickson wrote:
Recommending that users perform the update to 10.3.9 is one thing,
making it possible for them is another. There are still many people
that either do not have a modem or are on dial-up. It is my
experience that these people typically do not do the software
updates unless they can be purchased on disk (for a nominal fee).
It is my experience that these same people are not typically
updating their application software. Ergo their status quo is
maintained.
IIRC, my father is running 10.2.8 because he's on a dial-up ($20/mo)
and isn't willing to pay for a cable modem to read the occasional
email (and is our of range for DSL).
He doesn't have any friends who use Macs and the nearest Apple store
is 2 hours drive away. I've tried to get him to toss his iMac in the
car when he was visiting so that I could do an update with a
high-speed connection. Otherwise we'd be tying up his only phone line
for 10-12 hours running System Update (he doesn't have a cell phone
either).
With the radical UI changes in each Major update, I've been hesitant
to just send him disks when I can't spend the weekend with him in
case he has problems -- remember that with only one phone line, he
can't call me when he's connected to the internet.
Apple does seem to be under the delusion that all (or even most) of
their customers have access to a high speed connection that doesn't
charge by the byte.
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At the risk of throwing facts at a speculative conversation -- our
registration software logs the system version when our drivers are
registered, so I pulled a bunch of purchases from the last few days.
(These are all _new_ purchases)
9.2.1 1
10.2 2
10.2.3 2
10.2.8 1
10.3 1
10.3.3 1
10.3.5 1
10.3.6 1
10.3.8 3
10.3.9 13
10.4 3
10.4.1 2
10.4.2 12
unknown 3 (used an old installer)
total 46
9.x 10.1.x 10.2.x 10.3.x 10.4.x
Total 1 0 5 20 17
% 2% 0% 11% 43% 40%
up-to-date 0% -- 20% 65% 70%
What this says is that 80% of 10.2.x users, 35% of 10.3.x users and
30% 10.4.x users who purchased our software in the last few days were
not keeping their OS fully patched.
(It also looks like we can drop 10.1 support, which is welcome)
Feel free to speculate on why.
YMMV,
-Steve
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IOXperts, Inc. +1 617 876-2572
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