Mac OS X Mountain Lion (Unofficially) Sprints to Over 2 Million Downloads
Web tracking firm Chitka ran the numbers using a bit of rough math and determined that 2.11 million Mac users are now in possession of Mountain Lion. That's based, in part, on Apple's June 2012 announcement that there are 66 million Mac users in the wild.
"Using this figure, if we assume that 90 percent of these users paid to upgrade, OS X Mountain Lion generated $38 million in revenue for Apple in the past 48 hours."
Mac OS X Mountain Lion is an affordable $20 operating system, which is one of the reasons why it's racking up millions of downloads in such a short period of time (48 hours). It's also a compelling upgrade, offering over 200 new features.
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Pleas read the factsbook. Apple published somitimes the adoptionrate of Lion was 50 % of all active Mac's. Assume the highest adoption of ML within 14 days. Thereafter it will drop to the usual much lower rate driven by sales of new Mac's only. 90% of what? 90% of all active OSX machines? Nevermind. In my web-community a survey showed the similar rough 50% of all Mac's (owned by members) where never updated to a higher level than SL. |
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So is this a full new OS or just something like a service pack? |
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> That's based, in part, on Apple's June 2012 announcement that there are 66 million Mac users in the wild. That's all?!?! By my calculations, there are more Linux machines out there than that. I would have guessed at least 150M. |
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