First-week OS X Yosemite adoption rate outpaces Mavericks, now at 12.8%
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.
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 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.
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.
I guess you guys from AI can provide us with a more robust data sample yourself?
This machine is not mission critical. All good - no issues.
The other machines will be getting a clean install.
At any rate you'd think that they would have solved the problem by now, but nope. Telus support is like "uh use a VPN"
Adoption rate might be faster if people were able to download it:
After the first download, I immediately made a bootable OSX USB. I have multiple macs here at home and at the office and it just made more sense to keep an offline copy. It really speeds things up. I've been doing this for the past few OSX releases. It just takes too long to download, especially in the beginning when we all know a gazillion people are trying to download it as well.
I am *totally in love* with the Handoff/Continuity features. I find the look very pleasant (again, as with iOS 7 and 8, maybe more white space that is strictly needed), and Mail and Safari are both MUCH improved. Not sure about iTunes 12, but it's perfectly functional (needs some refinement on the look IMHO).
Yose downloaded and installed perfectly on my 2010 MBP 15". I haven't seen anything untoward yet. I like the new look for the most part. The color saturation is a little high on the various icons and window control buttons. And yes, the new system font is not my favorite - my older eyes don't like it much. I've increased the font size a lot so I can read things without my glasses.
My only real issue started with the last Mavericks update and has continued into Yosemite. After installing the Mavericks update my Etrade Java app that I use for stock market monitoring would not launch. It says it's unable to load a resource. Doesn't matter from which browser I attempt to launch. The problem has persisted into Yosemite. I haven't installed Java 8 because the app is not yet running on that version. Guess I'll be calling Etrade next week.
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.
How's been your email with Telus? Since I've updated my 27" 2011 imac everything's been great except Mail went down. Do a search and you'll find more than a few people have had issues. I've managed the work-a-round some have said to do but who knows how long it'll last. Here's one link...
https://timthetechguy.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/yosemite-telus-email-issues-workaround/
Btw, before I install I made a usb bootdisk.
"dirty Macs" ?
You just made me think of MODE32...
Update using iTunes on a computer for your phones and ipads