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Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October
hoagiecat writes "Is Apple like all those bands who claim to be "huge in Japan"? Leopard accounted for 53 percent of boxed operating systems sold in Japan in October — even though it was only on sale for the last six days of the month. 'The software went on sale worldwide on Oct. 26 with sales kicking off at 6 p.m. local time in each country. Users in New Zealand and Australia got their hands on Leopard first, but Tokyo saw the first launch at an Apple retail store. About 200 people lined up in light rain to buy the software at Apple's store in the ritzy Ginza district of Tokyo. Lines also formed at other Apple stores across the country and at major electronics retailers, where special events were held to mark the start of sales. Combined with other sales of other operating systems including Tiger, Apple had an overall 60.7 percent share of the market in October -- that's a big jump from the 15.5 percent share it had in September, which was itself the highest share Apple had managed to get so far in 2007. '"
It seems there was some confusion about what kinds of devices you could install Leopard on, so these numbers may not hold up for long....
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David Hasselhoff is huge anywhere where you can't understand a word he is saying.
5' 5.2" is the height of the average Japanese man. That talentless wonder you refer to is 6' 4". I guess that makes him hug (or huge).
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Mac OS is very language-friendly. Esperanto, Russian a and Japanese are just a clickity-click away for me.
Does it also have a feature to locate the other person who speaks Esperanto?
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