Leopard Overtakes Windows OS Sales In Japan For October
Apple's Mac OS 10.5 Leopard launch will go down in history as record-breaking, both internal and external. In Japan, sales went up to 60.5% market share year-on year in the month of October, which was enough to bump Microsoft from the top spot (reports Macworld.co.uk citing a Japanese Business Computer News report)
Apple had already indicated that the Leopard launch was highly successful, with two million copies sold in the first weekend alone.
In the six days after Leopard's 26 October launch, combined single-user licence (46 per cent) and family pack (7.9 per cent) sales accounted for 53.9 per cent of the total OS-only market in Japan.
However, at Microsoft, Windows sales fell from 75.3 per cent to 28.7 per cent
Apple had already indicated that the Leopard launch was highly successful, with two million copies sold in the first weekend alone.
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55 months ago
Now if Apple could get China to stop pirating everything and sell Leopard there!
55 months ago
Wow!!!
of course apple is on the upswing and well Microsoft with Vista.... is well on its way down.
this is marginal overall. the big change is more people are buying macs. so, this is a big deal and exciting period in apple's history.
if mac marketshare continues its upswing, it is conceivable that instead of 5% market share would be 15% in 2-3 years
of course apple is on the upswing and well Microsoft with Vista.... is well on its way down.
this is marginal overall. the big change is more people are buying macs. so, this is a big deal and exciting period in apple's history.
if mac marketshare continues its upswing, it is conceivable that instead of 5% market share would be 15% in 2-3 years
55 months ago
I'm reading that, but I still don't believe it. Good times are ahead for Apple.
55 months ago
This doesn't surprise me, since you'd have to be somewhat crazy to buy the full retail Vista OS. OEM is the only way it's affordable.
55 months ago
I'm curious to see what the Mac OS X to XP/Vista installed marketshare looks like in Japan.
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