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 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:45 pm Post subject: Mountain Lion Downloads Top Three Million |
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Mountain Lion Downloads Top Three Million
Monday, July 30, 2012
Posted by: Staff
Apple today announced that downloads of OS X Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple's history.
"Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
Mountain Lion is available through the Mac App Store as an upgrade to Lion or Snow Leopard users for $19.99.
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Bandit Bill
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This is good news and it shows that the online distribution method is paying off.
It's a little unfair to compare it to Lion's release. Many people wanted to upgrade to Lion, but had to install Snow Leopard first, or upgrade RAM to install Lion. Most people already have the App store icon, Apple i.d.'s and 2GB of RAM, so the transition went a lot smoother. Lion still needed some updates and those who need Rosetta support are still running Snow Leopard. Anyone running Lion had little to lose by installing Mountain Lion.
That being said, I love the online distribution method. Many people cursed when it first came out, but I haven't heard any complaints this time around. The world has quickly become accustom to online distribution. I don't even think Apple made a USB version of the OS this time around. |
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Yeah, I was skeptical at first too. I have no problems with the process after upgrading to Mountain Lion though. And it's the future, so there's no turning back anyways.
I'm surprised with the total number of downloads. I actually thought that number would be much higher. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million or like a million per day. Didn't Lion do like a million per day at first? |
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Bandit Bill
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| epic_ed wrote: | | Didn't Lion do like a million per day at first? |
It did 1 million on it's first day, but took 2-3 months to reach 6 million.
From wiki
Lion... final release via the Mac App Store on July 20, 2011. Apple reported over 1 million Lion sales on the first day of its release.[11] As of October 2011, Mac OS X Lion has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. |
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| It will be interesting to see how these uptake numbers compare with Windows 8. I bet they will be considered to be very strong in that context. Even though I think Windows 8 is a more substantial and interesting upgrade. |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | | It did 1 million on it's first day, but took 2-3 months to reach 6 million. |
Wow, Mountain Lion is off to a rock solid start then. |
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| I also think that it's impressive considering that the system requirements have been increased from Lion. |
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