On 23/01/2014, at 23.59, development-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
>
>> If you do the math from the data available here
>> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
>> (that’s December 2013), 10.6 accounts for slightly less than 20% of all the
>> OS X versions. Let’s suppose those numbers reflect the reality.
>
> For our app at least, the numbers are close to our actual OS X usage
> figures. Last I checked in September 2013, 20% of Mac users were on OS
> X 10.6. I should be able to get more up to date numbers if that is
> useful.
>
> As for the reason why usage of OS X 10.6 is still high - I think that
> is down to awareness of the need to upgrade and the effort/time vs.
> perceived benefits, as well as hardware compatibility issues. Once
> browsers (FF, Chrome) make a move towards dropping 10.6 support this
> might help awareness.
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
I don’t think anybody has mentioned the lack of ability to upgrade hardware -
mostly because of financial issues, I suppose. 10.6 is as far as I know the
last Mac OS to support 32 bit systems. Previous versions of my own software
supported PPC and down to Mac OS 10.4, which gave me a considerable user base
from that segment. Percentages aside, there’s still a LOT of people sitting
with old hardware, simply because they cannot afford to upgrade.
XP was introduced in 2001. It’s still supported. Mac OS 10.6 was introduced in
2009. I understand the desire to get rid of the messiness under the hood, but I
think it should be considered that it cuts out users on hardware platforms not
so much up to date.
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