While many Windows users are content to live with older versions of their software, Mac users have generally been quite responsive to version upgrades. Sure, you’ll still find the occasional person running OS X 10.4 Tiger (like the client I upgraded last week), but a lot of Macs are now running Lion (OS X 10.7) or at least Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). Omni Group, developers of the great task manager app OmniFocus, keeps a close eye on the OS version installed on user machines and has made their data available to the development community.
The data is collected through Omni Software Update, and the stats cover an array of areas covering not only the OS version that is running, but other areas like hardware, language preference, and graphic adapter and display information. Probably the most fascinating stats show the adoption of Lion since July of 2011 by Omni Group product. 71 percent of all OmniFocus users have made the jump to Lion, while a paltry 26 percent of OmniOutliner users are running the latest OS.
Overall, 47.7 percent of all OmniGroup customers are now running Lion, with 33.7 percent still cruising along nicely on Snow Leopard. Oddly enough, there are more OmniGroup customers running OS X 10.4 Tiger (11.8 percent) than 10.5 Leopard (6.7 percent).
All in all, it’s a wonderful source of data for both developers and those who just have a fascination with all things Apple. You can view the data at update.omnigroup.com.
[via MacStories]
The Omni Group releases Lion update stats originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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