Leopard: Two days - two million sold

Yes, the global Leopard lovefest rolls on, with Apple releasing the weekend sales numbers.


Good result, though not really surprising ...

Ray6 wrote:

Yes, the global Leopard lovefest rolls on, with Apple releasing the weekend sales numbers.


Good result, though not really surprising ...

Rossj wrote:



Ray6 wrote: Yes, the global Leopard lovefest rolls on, with Apple releasing the weekend sales numbers. Good result, though not really surprising ...

Wow. I was surprised that at my local Apple reseller (in Chester) last Friday there was a queue of 10 or so people, and when I left there were still 10 people in the queue.  But 2 million boxes is quite a lot I would have thought, unless that includes new machines...

Rossj wrote:



Ray6 wrote: Yes, the global Leopard lovefest rolls on, with Apple releasing the weekend sales numbers. Good result, though not really surprising ...

Wow. I was surprised that at my local Apple reseller (in Chester) last Friday there was a queue of 10 or so people, and when I left there were still 10 people in the queue.  But 2 million boxes is quite a lot I would have thought, unless that includes new machines...

Apple Press Release wrote:

CUPERTINO, California—October 30, 2007—Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. Sales included copies sold at Apple’s retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store®, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac® computers.

I think it says something about the Apple user base when you have lots of them waiting in line for an operating system upgrade on launch day...

Maybe they are a lot more like gamers than they think! (cough halo 3)

Just kidding   I was actually one of the dorks in line for halo 3.  But hey I was bored.

My copy of leopard should arrive today or tomorrow (new version of boot camp haha).

I'm going to wait a few weeks before upgrading.  I see some nice new features, but nothing to run out and get it.

Thats really cool, and fairly surprising in some ways..

Not that isn't a crappy update to buy, but I didn't really think of it as being a really ~worthwhile~ upgrade..

Given with a new machine and I worked on OS X, I would of course take leopard over tiger.. (I say of course, but I've heard a lot of people are downgrading their new machines from app compat problems)..

The Apple stores here in Orlando, Florida, U.S. had literally hundreds of people queued up around the stores so it doesn't shock me that they sold 2 million copies worldwide in the first 2 days!

I wound up going to another non-Apple reseller to get my copy. No waiting.

stevo_ wrote:

(I say of course, but I've heard a lot of people are downgrading their new machines from app compat problems)..