On: About Python 3

[laureny]

> Mac overall market share is still pretty low. Somewhere in the 10% percent range I believe.

That's in the US. In the rest of the world, it's around 5%.

[w1ntermute → laureny]

According to this site[0], it's at 7.54%. Out of that, only 32% are running the latest version of OS X (10.9). Another 24.5% are running 10.8. So almost half of OS X users are at least 2 versions behind. Not nearly as up-to-date as you might think.

0: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

[pudquick → w1ntermute]

So what you're saying is that greater than 56% of Macs are running operating systems at most 1.5 years old ? (10.8 + 10.9).

God I wish the numbers were like that for Windows.

[w1ntermute → pudquick]

Well, it's a good thing then that you can't make a direct comparison between the two OSes. Apple doesn't care about developers, quickly deprecating APIs. Therefore, targeting an Apple OS that's 1.5 years old is much more tedious than targeting a Microsoft OS that's 1.5 years old.