Re: OT : Is the Jaguar user base large enough to still support it?

FROM : Scott Ellsworth
DATE : Wed Apr 13 19:50:24 2005

On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:

> My friend and I released a 10.3-only app, and out of the 200 or so 
> feedback emails we've gotten, I'd say less than 10 were a request 
> for a backport to 10.2.


At my clients, 10% of the xserves run 10.2, and the rest 10.3.  We 
expect new xserves will run 10.4, but it will probably be months 
before the servers are upgraded, as cost matters.

All of the Macs I know of at our clients are running 10.3.  We expect 
25% to be running 10.4 on April 29, perhaps half to be running 10.4 
within a month, and all but a handful by year end.

Of the forty personal Macs I know, all run 10.3 now.  Half will be 
running 10.4 on April 29, based on discussions with the owners.  I 
expect all to be running 10.4 by year end, but I expect a quarter of 
them to be upgraded in a big spike after the annual family get together.

So, based on my sampling, I would not worry about Jaguar, but I would 
be very reticent about releasing a Tiger-only product for at least 
six months.  (That said, I plan to.)

Scott