Developer interest in OS X Yosemite appears to be trending ahead of Mavericks. At the time of writing, Yosemite adoption rate among developers is 4 times that of Mavericks, which gives the impression that OS X could finally break out of its niche market and become a mainstream product.
The report came from Chitika, a web analytics firm that also meddles in online advertising. According to the firm, Yosemite adoption rate rose by 0.20 percent in the first 30 days, compared to the 0.5 percent adoption rate for Mavericks in the same time frame. Basically, Yosemite had a stronger head start when compared to Mavericks, and this shouldn't come as a surprise.
"Overall, the data point to a promising future for OS X Yosemite. In the short term, we expect the operating system's usage share to grow in the wake of the release of the third Developer Preview edition on July 7, 2014," said Chitika.
Some might be wondering what could be driving developer interest in Yosemite. Well, chances are it has a lot to do with the features Apple announced that will play a major role in the operating system. For example, Yosemite will collaborate more with iOS, and it also comes packed with a few features taken from iOS. This is a benefit for OS X and iOS users who are looking for easier ways to transition from desktop to mobile and back in a seamless manner.
One of the features that we suspect that drives this adoption rate is the ability to begin an activity on an iOS device, and transfer that activity to Yosemite without losing any data in the process. We also believe that the more Apple enables iOS to communicate with OS X, the better it would be for the operating system that has seen its growth slowed due to Windows.
Chitika believes that once Yosemite goes public, the operating system should see greater adoption.
We should note that only Chitika has released such a report, so until there's a second opinion on the matter, one should tread carefully when taking Chitika's report as truth of Yosemite's performance.
