NetMarketShare released its February 2012 online market share data with some interesting data for the month.
Snow Leopard is the gateway to update your Mac to a newer operating system via Apple Purchases. Having seen the negative reviews, I thought I'd give it a go and see what happens. Nothing to lose. Well, imagine my surprise when I copied the iso to a USB stick, stuck it into my 2008 MacBook Pro and it worked beautifully. A preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was publicly shown at the 'Back to the Mac' Apple Special Event on October 20, 2010. It brought many developments made in Apple's iOS, such as an easily navigable display of installed applications, to the Mac, and includes support for the Mac App Store, as introduced in Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.6.
- Nov 05, 2019 The sleep and boot rate of the Mac OS X snow leopard is considered to be the best and fast in its class. Architecture transformation. With the Mac OS X Snow leopard, the 32-bit architecture went into the dark in the history of constructing architecture for apple devices. This ensures that apple devices only worked on 64-bit resolutions.
- A preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was publicly shown at the 'Back to the Mac' Apple Special Event on October 20, 2010. It brought many developments made in Apple's iOS, such as an easily navigable display of installed applications, to the Mac, and includes support for the Mac App Store, as introduced in Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.6.
- Apple says you need either Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), Lion (OS X 10.7), or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) installed before you can install Mavericks (OS X 10.9). But there are situations in which.
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- On PCs, only OS X increased share.
- On Macs, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopardincreased its share and remains ahead of OS X 10.7 Lion.
- iOS increased its share of the mobile market from under 54% to over 60%. Android is a distant second at just over 19%, displacing JavaME for second place.
It’s nice to see Apple dominate in the mobile space, and it’s great to see OS X was the only operating system to gain PC market share in February, but I find the growth of Snow Leopard the most interesting piece of data.
Last July, OS X 10.7 Lion hit the market with 0.33% market share, and Snow Leopard peaked at 4.0%. But as Lion gained market share, it was only partially at the expense of Snow Leopard. For instance, in August, 10.7 added 0.70% while 10.6 lost only 0.54%. Snow Leopard hit a low of 2.95% in January and bounced back to 3.0% in February – something very unusual for a discontinued operating system (the same thing happened last October).
That said, Lion has continued its steady growth and now has 2.69% market share. At its current rate of growth, it should finally pass Snow Leopard this month.
What’s most intriguing is that while all new Macs sold since last summer have shipped with OS X 10.7 Lion and the upgrade has been available for just $30, 75% of Snow Leopard users have not made the switch – and based on Snow Leopard increases in October and February, it appears that some who switched to Lion have gone back to Snow Leopard.
This does not bode well for Apple, which depends on Mac users migrating to the latest version of the Mac OS that their hardware supports. Most of those Snow Leopard Macs are capable of running Lion, and the few that can’t were all Core Solo and Core Duo models introduced in 2006.
As a Snow Leopard user who has not installed Lion and doesn’t plan on it, I can venture two solid reasons for OS X 10.6 users to stick with Snow Leopard:
- Losing Rosetta and the ability to run PowerPC apps.
- Big changes in OS X Lion that depend on new software to work (for instance, Versions and AutoSave).
For the most part, it boils down to money. Why should I pay $30 to upgrade to Lion when it means my old copy of Photoshop or Microsoft Office or AppleWorks won’t work? With Photoshop and Office, there are newer versions available, but for AppleWorks, there really is no substitute. Granted, Apple’s iWork suite has the same functionality and early versions can import AppleWorks files, but Pages and Numbers are completely different apps compared to AppleWorks.
Even if all of your apps run natively on Intel Macs, there’s the matter of getting new versions that will take advantage of the new Lion features. Sometimes those updates are free, but sometimes you have to pay for a version update to get the Lion features, making OS X 10.7 much more than a $30 upgrade.
A lot of us have drawn a line in the sand. We have Macs that work perfectly well with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (likewise for PowerPC Macs with OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.4 Tiger), and moving ahead with Apple comes at too high a cost in terms of finances, familiarity, and productivity.
I have no disdain for Lion users, and some Low End Mac staffers use and love it. It’s just that many of us are longtime Mac users with years or decades invested in buying and using software that just works for us. Moving to a version of OS X that breaks those apps just isn’t an option.
In fact, we’re seeing something of a Lion backlash among low-end Mac users, as they look for new, refurbished, and recently discontinued Macs that are still capable of booting Snow Leopard so they can remain productive without having to enter the strange new world of Lion.
It’s great to see Mac OS X gaining market share, and it’s wonderful to see so many users embracing Lion (and, later this year, sure to embrace OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion), but it’s also good to know that our old Macs are going to remain productive with our older operating systems and apps for years to come.
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OS X 10.7 Lion was released on July 20, 2011 and made some huge changes to the Mac. Some of these changes were to make it easier for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to adapt to the Mac, some to make the two platforms work better together, and some to keep making the Mac better and better.
Lion was only available by purchase and download from the Mac App Store, where it retailed for US$29.99. You must have OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed to purchase, download, or install Lion, and the 4 GB download could take some time with slower DSL connections (we don’t even want to think about how long it would take with dial-up). As a convenience, Apple allowed users to bring their Macs to a nearby Apple Store and use Apple’s WiFi to make the download.
Like OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Lion requires an Intel-based Mac, but it goes two steps beyond that. First of all, Lion is a 64-bit operating system, so it won’t work on those 2006 Macs built around 32-bit Core Solo and Core Duo processors. It requires Core 2 Duo or newer, which leaves the following Macs behind unless you update the firmware and install a Core 2 Duo CPU:
Additionally, Lion is the first version of OS X with no support for PowerPC software. Apple introduced Rosetta, which lets Intel CPUs run PowerPC apps, with OS X 10.4 Tiger for the first Intel Macs in 2006, and it had been part of OS X until now.
The last version of Lion, OS X 10.7.5, was released on October 4, 2012. It was the first version of Mac OS X to be part of the annual upgrade program – ever since Lion, Apple has released a new macOS version every year.
Lion was replaced by OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on July 25, 2012, just a year after Lion first became available. Lion is no longer available for purchase through normal App Store channels, although you may be able to acquire access to it through Apple Support.
Lion is the oldest version of OS X impacted by the “goto fail” bug. See Apple and the ‘goto fail’ Bug for information on securing Lion.
Installation Tip
You can’t just install Lion on any old Mac that support it. The installer’s certificate has expired, so you need to set your Mac to think it’s operating in the past. Using trial and error, I found that setting a date in 2012 will let the installer function. To change your Mac’s date:
- Open System Preferences.
- Open Date & Time.
- If your Mac is set to Set date and time automatically, which is usually the case, disable it.
- Click on the year and use the down arrow to the right of it to change the year to 2012.
- Install Lion and make several rounds of updates.
After you complete the process, be sure to set your Mac to the current date and time. Enabling the Set date and time automatically setting is the easiest way to do it.
Lion Links
- The Implications of Losing Rosetta in OS X 10.7 Lion, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2011.05.09. Rosetta lets PowerPC apps run on Intel Macs, but losing Rosetta means that some installers and updaters will no longer run.
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Brings Back Useful Features from Apple’s 1983 Lisa, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2011.06.07. As I read about Resume, Auto Save, and Versions, one thought kept coming to my mind: Lisa lives!
- Already Addicted to OS X Lion, Austin Leeds, Apple Everywhere, 2011.07.21. After just a few hours use, iPad user Austin Leeds says there’s a lot to love with OS X 10.7 Lion on his MacBook Pro.
- Snow Leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion Backlash, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2012.03.05. While OS X and Lion are gaining market share, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is also making a bit of a comeback.
Downloadable Updates
Standalone updates let you update to a newer version of Mac OS X from your hard drive instead of using Software Update, which requires an Internet connection. This can be especially helpful if you have more than one Mac that need to have the update installed, since you only have to download it once. Download the one(s) you need and install them after mounting the disk image and launching the Installer program.
There are two types of Standalone Updates: Individual (or Delta) and Combo.
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- Individual Updates update one version of Mac OS X to the next version. For example, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update updates Mac OS X 10.7.3 to version 10.7.4. Individual Updates are also known as Delta Updates.
- Combo Updates update the base version of a Mac OS X release to the version specified in the Combo Update, including all intermediate updates. For example, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 Combo Update updates any earlier version of Mac OS X 10.7 to Mac OS X 10.7.4 using a single installer, as opposed to installing the individual Mac OS X 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, and 10.7.4 updates.
Standalone Updates are generally available 24 to 48 hours after the Update is available through Software Update.
If you burn a Standalone Update to CD, its disk image must be copied to your desktop or another location on your Mac OS X startup disk in order to be installed.
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