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Apple: 1 weekend, 2 million copies of Leopard sold
by Brad Linder Oct 30th 2007 at 12:30PM
Apple today announced that it has sold 2 million copies of OS X 10.5 since launching Leopard on Friday. Who knew there were 2 million Mac users out there? Just kidding. No, seriously.That figure includes copies of the OS sold through retail stores, Apple's online store, and copies delivered as part of maintenance agreements.
The bigger question is if this is a sort of blockbuster release. Everyone who wants Leopard will have rushed out to buy it on opening weekend. And next week the sales will slump significantly. Our guess is that the first weekend sales don't necessarily predict the overall success of an operating system. Rather, they indicate the degree to which the public bought the hype surrounding an operating system.
Last year Microsoft said they expected 200 million computers would have Windows Vista installed by the end of 2007. As of this week, the company has sold just 88 million licenses, which is still higher than many people had predicted.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zelet said 12:49PM on 10-30-2007
I can see why there are so many sales. It's a great OS. Most of the improvements that I use on a daily basis are under the hood.
1. If you disconnect from a network share improperly it doesn't beach ball
2. If a finder window crashes it doesn't bring down your entire system.
3. The system feels faster and more responsive... though I haven't benchmarked.
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michael said 5:21PM on 10-30-2007
Any Tiger user who upgraded must be dumb.
Leopard offers little more, than just Time Machine.
3D dock? I bet they copied Sun's Looking Glass.
Transparent-like menu bars? They look pretty gruesome in OS X.
Parental Controls? Wasn't that already in Vista?
Spaces is basically a rip-off of the same thing in Linux.
Seriously, any "smart" Tiger user should wait for the next one.
It's funny how fanboys think Leopard is worth upgrading to, compared to XP uses who should upgrade to Vista.
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Christina Warren said 3:48PM on 10-31-2007
Hey, for Apple - 2 million is a hit. It took Tiger six weeks to sell as many copies :)
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