AllThingsD experiences that simply over forty eight hours after launch, OS X Mountain Lion is already accounting for over three% of web visitors coming from the Mac platform. the data, which comes from analytics agency Chitika, presentations that Mountain Lion’s share has risen quick from roughly 0.25% prior to the public launch.
“moreover, based on Apple’s June 2012 announcement that there are currently 66 million Mac users in the wild, we will infer that 2.11 million Mac users downloaded OS X Mountain Lion prior to now 48 hours,” Chitika stated. “using this figure, if we assume that ninety p.c of those customers paid to improve, OS X Mountain Lion generated $38 million in earnings for Apple up to now forty eight hours.”
Adoption has been even faster among individuals who intently follow Apple information, with 9to5Mac reporting the day gone by that over half of of its Mac guests were already on Mountain Lion after hitting 10% even earlier than the public launch.
last year, Apple touted one million downloads of OS X Lion within the first day of availability, however the firm has but to liberate any authentic early figures for OS X Mountain Lion.
With Apple having just released new and updated models of its well-liked MacBook pro and MacBook Air machines ultimate month, many users are eligible for Apple’s up to date software, which deals a free upgrade to Mountain Lion. Apple has, then again, been experiencing some concerns with this system, with a variety of customers handiest just now receiving redemption codes to permit them to download OS X Mountain Lion.
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