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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. '"
If only they'd had the foresight to put 3G in it, you could have used your iPhone as a phone instead of an expensive, battery hungry, short on disk space iPod.
I suppose it's a surprise to nobody that a very small number of Operating Systems are sold shrink-wrapped.
Conspicuously absent from the article is any mention to the real numbers that make the percentages. I mean, if the real numbers turn out to be something like 800 total, of which 424 Leopards, then the "article" is just marketing. Likelihood of that, bigger than 53%.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
I didn't RTFA, but if they sold 53% of all OS in OCTOBER, how can they for sure claim half the OS market? Isn't that a bit irrevelant? What if the market was already saturated with windows, and alot of people just bought 50% of OSes in October?? Again I didn't RTFA.
Yeah, but only because asians have small penises. Kathleen Fent says he's average.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
If Apple should ever get significant market share in the US, I, for one, don't welcome our shiny overlords from Cupertino. I think Apple is simply not a nice company.