But only 3% of users will have to stick with 1.3.7.īlogAssist: The current release, 2.2.6, still supports Tiger. Time Out: The current release of this app still supports Tiger, but only about 2% of users are still on Tiger.Ĭaboodle: Version 1.3.7, the current release version as I write this, still supports Tiger, but the next release, 1.4, which is currently in beta, raises the minimum to Leopard. About 4% of the user base are on Simon 2 on Tiger.
Despite that, there are less people using Simon 2 on Tiger than those who are eligible to upgrade to Simon 3 but haven't gotten around to it yet. Simon: Version 2.5.7 was the last to support Tiger with the major 3.0 upgrade I made Leopard the minimum OS version.
Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" was released over six years ago on April 29, 2005. So, I thought I'd report on the current OS usage stats, and the status of each of my apps. Dejal customers have been very quick to upgrade. Mac OS X 10.7, more commonly known as Lion, was released last week, and has been very popular. I've enjoyed using and owning the various Macs over this time, and look forward to many more years. (We've also had a few other Macs: a Mac mini we used to use with our TV, a MacBook I bought to take to WWDC before I got my MacBook Pro, then subsequently gave to my wife's mom, and my wife has had a couple of 15" MacBook Pros and now has a 27" iMac like mine.)Īll in all, it's been a great 30 years.
Then an iMac G4 that died of old age, a PowerMac G5 that I still very occasionally use for Mac OS X 10.4 testing, a 17" MacBook Pro that died due to graphics system failure, and my current machine, a 27" iMac.
Just before we moved to the US, we bought a clamshell iBook G3, which we still have, though it is retired now. Yep, meeting over the internet was a novel concept back then. Our wedding was covered on local TV news and newspapers. When my wife and I got married, Apple gave us a PowerBook 150 as a wedding present, since we had met while using Macs with the fledgling internet.
Then I used a number of other models provided by a Dejal client. Later I bought a Macintosh II, which I subsequently upgraded internally to be a Macintosh IIx. which is actually not much more than the original iPhone screen resolution, to give some perspective. working on a 9-inch 512 x 342 pixel monochrome display. And I even had a second 800K floppy drive and a dot-matrix printer! Later, I added an external hard drive (I think it was 10 MB, though I could be wrong). It was a Macintosh Plus, one of the new platinum-colored models. I bought my first Mac four years later while at university, in 1988. We used MacWrite for letters and other documents, MacPaint for occasional graphics, and the OverVUE database for some records. Back then, the OS, an application, and data fit on a single 400K disk. It was an original 128K Mac, with a single internal floppy drive. The school had mostly Apple IIe computers, but bought one of the newfangled Macintosh computers in 1984. I first used a Mac back in high school in New Zealand, where I volunteered as head student librarian. It's the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the first Macintosh.