One in six Mac users runs OS X Lion

TipsMake.com - According to statistics released on Thursday by a Net Applications company , one in six Mac users has the latest version of the operating system - OS X Lion.

According to California-based Net Applications , Mac OS X 10.7 or Lion now accounts for 1% of the overall desktop operating system used to connect to the Internet in the past month.
According to Net Applications, the total version of Mac OS X holds 6% market share worldwide.

Apple officially released Lion on June 20 last on the App Store system, where users can upgrade to this version for $ 29.99. Two weeks ago (August 16) Apple also offered Lion via USB flash for $ 69 for those with a slow Internet connection that could not be downloaded from Apple's repository.

Lion's appearance was similar to Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard was released in October 2007 by Apple. At the end of August, Leopard's market share was 1.2%.

Mac OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard is still the most widely used version of Apple's desktop operating system, with a total market share of 3.5% worldwide, accounting for 57% of the Mac operating system. However, Snow Leopard's market share has halved in August because many people have switched to Lion.

Mac OS X is still too small for Microsoft's Windows operating system, with a market share of 93% on desktops and laptops. The statistics of Net Applications said.

With this August data, Net Applications changed the way it tracks usage by separating smartphones and tablets by the rise of mobile browsers.

Net Applications calculates activity sharing of the system with data collected from more than 160 million unique visitors over 40,000 monitored websites. The operating system uses data that can be found on their website .