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. '"

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Not "huge in Japan"

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OS-X isn't necessarily "Huge In Japan" but, it was boxed operating system sales, almost 90% of Windows users, have not bought a box of Vista/XP, why? Because of OEM licenses, when most people use Windows and most people get it from OEM licenses, who else has boxed operating systems that people want to buy? Linux is free and although a few people buy the boxed editions its mostly to fund development and such and other then OS-X, Linux and Windows there aren't any other major boxed operating systems so where else would it go?