Apple's OS X Mavericks Surges Toward 6% Adoption: Report

Just 24 hours after Apple released Mavericks, its latest edition of Mac OS X, the company's operating system is skyrocketing in downloads, according to a new report by Chitika Insights. More On Apple Design Crazy, Fast Company's eBook Collecting The Oral History Of Apple Design All Of The Ways Apple's New Free Mac OS Hurts Microsoft Windows Hear From The IT Blogger Whose Review Apple CEO Tim Cook Blasted Apple's Newer, Thinner "iPad Air" Starts At $499 Apple Added A Retina Screen To The iPad Mini, And That's A Big Deal How Apple Created The Lightest iPad Yet According to Chitika, which sampled millions of U.S. and Canadian Mac users by analyzing online ad impressions generated through its network, the report found that 5.5% of all Mac OS web traffic is now driven by Mavericks users––a rough approximate for the adoption of the operating system itself. It's a significant figure. As Chitika's report indicated, "[It's] more than three times the adoption rate of OS X Mountain Lion," which reached just a 1.6% adoption rate during the same period following its debut. Could this be because Apple's new operating system is free? Click to expandChart courtesy of ChitikaAs we detailed this week, by making Mavericks free for Mac users, Apple is disrupting the traditional OS business model––potentially to the detriment of competitors like Microsoft. Historically, Apple sold Mac OS to its users; Mountain Lion, for example, cost $19.99. But perhaps the company realized the upside to... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]

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