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[Ice_Blue]

http://insights.chit...-mountain-lion/

I didn't realise it was that popular. (Or that there were so many geeks.)

[BajiRav]

Pointless comparison? I know Apple likes to do this but still...

[threetonesun]

Statistically, that's not a great sign for Windows 8, consider all PCs (even Macs) can run Windows, and anyone can download the preview, unlike Mountain Lion, which is limited to OSX developers.

[Dot Matrix]

threetonesun, on 15 May 2012 - 19:20, said:

Statistically, that's not a great sign for Windows 8, consider all PCs (even Macs) can run Windows, and anyone can download the preview, unlike Mountain Lion, which is limited to OSX developers.

What? Did you read the article? Windows 8 is double that of Mountain Lion.

[still1]

threetonesun, on 15 May 2012 - 19:20, said:

Statistically, that's not a great sign for Windows 8, consider all PCs (even Macs) can run Windows, and anyone can download the preview, unlike Mountain Lion, which is limited to OSX developers.

Couldn't have explained it better.

Its pointless comparison but W8 is still doing great in terms of market share

http://marketshare.h...=10&qpcustomd=0

[Ice_Blue]

threetonesun, on 15 May 2012 - 19:20, said:

Statistically, that's not a great sign for Windows 8, consider all PCs (even Macs) can run Windows, and anyone can download the preview, unlike Mountain Lion, which is limited to OSX developers.

Yeah. Also doesn't jibe with some other stats which claim Win 8 CP is being used by twice the people using Win 7 Beta at the same point in its development.

https://twitter.com/...383361337753601

[still1]

Dot Matrix, on 15 May 2012 - 19:24, said:

What? Did you read the article? Windows 8 is double that of Mountain Lion.

I don't think u got his point... To install Mountain lion you need developer account and you need to pay yearly subscription for it.
Its $99 i believe.

[+Quillz]

still1, on 15 May 2012 - 19:30, said:

I don't think u got his point... To install Mountain lion you need developer account and you need to pay yearly subscription for it.
Its $99 i believe.

Actually, there is nothing to prevent you from just downloading it off BitTorrent or the other usual places. You are supposed to use a unique App Store code to install it, but this is easily gotten around.

[CSharp.]

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the Windows 8 Consumer preview exhibits traffic levels almost twice that of Mac OS X Mountain Lion

That is a bit surprising considering the Mac's <10% market share (and the fact that ML is not even freely available)...

Ice_Blue, on 15 May 2012 - 19:02, said:

I didn't realise it was that popular.

You mean twice as popular as Apple's beta OS?

[Rudy]

I never expected ML to be anywhere close to 50% of Win8, not a good sign for MS

[Ice_Blue]

CJEric, on 16 May 2012 - 00:00, said:

You mean twice as popular as Apple's beta OS?

No. Just the amount of people downloading it (CP).
As far as I can tell from the forums, there seems to be a lot of hate (or FUD) for Win 8.
That's why I was surprised at the volume of downloads.

[Rickkins]

It's amazing to watch the gullible ones drinking the ms kool aid.....

We can expect tons of misleading nonsense during the course of win8.

[BajiRav]

still1, on 15 May 2012 - 19:30, said:

I don't think u got his point... To install Mountain lion you need developer account and you need to pay yearly subscription for it.
Its $99 i believe.

You mean all the neowin users in that ML thread are registered Apple developers?

[+Vice]

This isn't a great sign for Microsoft because Windows 8 is currently a Consumer Preview that anyone can download and Microsoft make it very easy to do so while Mountain Lion is currently for developers only and you need to have an active and paid Apple Developer Account to get access to Mountain Lion unless you pirate it.

So what this indicates to me is that Windows 8 isn't very popular it should be over 10,000% more popular than Mountain Lion.

[+Vice]

BajiRav, on 16 May 2012 - 15:01, said:

You mean all the neowin users in that ML thread are registered Apple developers?

Quite a lot of them are actually. It's not very difficult to code an iPhone app.