Meanwhile beyond the smoke and mirrors of mainstream Apple reporting some may want to take a look at the latest claim — OS X Yosemite achieved the kind of adoption in four days that took Microsoft’s Windows 8 two years to accomplish.

Two years

In that two years, Apple has released three operating system versions, each one widely deployed by the growing-faster-than-the-PC-industry congregation of Mac users. This, at least, is the claim coming from Backblaze, as reported on the company blog:

“I was amazed at what I found with Backblaze’s aggregate user statistics,” writes Backblaze support engineer Adam Nelson. “On October 20, 2014 — just four days after release — the percentage of Backblaze’s Mac user base who were now running OS X “Yosemite” surpassed the percentage of Backblaze’s Windows user base who were running Windows 8 (including 8.1), which has been available to the general public for nearly two years.”

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