In its first six days of release, OS X Yosemite was installed on 12.8% of Macs in North America. That’s just slightly higher than the 12.4% installation rate that OS X Mavericks had six days after its release. Those numbers come from ad network Chitika.
Ahead of its launch, Yosemite adoption by beta testers and developers was more than 33 times higher than the adoption of Mavericks, and as measured by Chitika, its one percent share of North American Mac OS X-based Web traffic on the first day after release was double the day one adoption rate of Mavericks and Mountain Lion.
The higher OS X Yosemite install numbers are likely spurred in part by numerous new features that deeply integrate the new Mac OS with iOS 8. The new OS brought revamped apps, along with Continuity, improvements in Notification Center, iCloud Drive, and more.
Chitika also feels the Yosemite public beta positively impacted the operating system’s adoption rate:
“Apple had previously made a public beta of the OS available for the first time in the company’s history, and this seems to have helped boost initial adoption rates slightly beyond what was observed for OS X Mavericks back in 2013.”
Chitika draws its numbers from millions of North American OS X-based online ad impressions from the Chitika ad network. The data was obtained from October 16 to October 22.
