{"id":162,"date":"2005-12-05T01:55:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T01:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-12-05T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T16:11:48","slug":"omni-software-update-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/omni-software-update-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Omni Software Update Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who runs a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\">Omni Group<\/a> application will know (because they make it very clear) that their software update process sends some information along when it checks for new versions. For transparency&#8217;s sake you can see what is sent, etc, so there is no personal information and nothing evil going on. If there were, users of Little Snitch could soon blow the whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Omni make this information visible on their site at <a href=\"http:\/\/update.omnigroup.com\/\">http:\/\/update.omnigroup.com\/<\/a> and as a developer this is not only interesting but very useful. It seems most people are using Tiger, with only around 10% on Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x) and under 1% on Jaguar (10.2.x). It also shows things like CPU type and speed, number of processors, installed memory, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this is limited to people who use Omni Group&#8217;s software at a version that reports this information, all of which only runs on Mac OS X, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it were roughly representative of Mac OS X&#8217;s user base as a whole. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, I&#8217;m going to continue to support Panther and later with my apps until their next major versions (i.e. 2.0), both of which are a while off, unless something technical means I can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who runs a recent Omni Group application will know (because they make it very clear) that their software update process sends some information along when it checks for new versions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}