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Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days
hypnosec writes "Apple has announced that its latest Mac OS X version, Mountain Lion, has had three million downloads in just four days thereby making it the most successful OS in Cupertino's history. Philip Schiller, iPhone maker's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said, 'Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever.'"
iSheeple download new iCrap at record speeds!
Who cares about Apple OS's? The whole company sucks and so do their overpriced products. I hear it sucks ass to work at Apple. Its very cutthroat and the company that makes their hardware, Foxconn, literally has nets outside the windows to save would-be jumpers from committing suicide.
Seriously, the "updated" in Mountain Lion is akin to offering a few free apps on the Mac App store and a patch, or should have been at least.
Is Apple that desperate for cash they needed to orchestrate an obvious cash grab for an OS patch? Is Apple so greedy they need to find more ways to cheat money from their consumers? Surprised that Apple didn't offer a subscription model for OS X (oh, they did, called iCloud).
Seems kind of obvious that on the same day as a financial report that saw Apple miss their targets, wow, Mountain Lion is released with its low, low, low price.
It is obvious that Apple's "PC" and their "Post-PC" divisions are working at different wavelengths.
The last time Apple tried to make iPhone users pay for an iOS update they got slammed with a class action lawsuit. Since then iOS updates are free. The $3000+ TCO you pay for the pleasure of owning an iPhone is a different story.
It is very obvious that Mac users are all retarded hipsters. and Apple is keenly aware of this. They accept the fact they are assumed to pay for an OS X update in the "post-PC" era and so helped to make Mountain Lion Apple's fastest con yet. There won't be a class action lawsuit over Mountain Lion because Mac users are too smug to realize that the world's most "advanced" OS didn't advanced very far for $20.
The problem with Apple fanboys is they are completely and utterly oblivious. Its incredible that the same people who would never pay for an iOS update (and in fact outright cried because of paid upgrades in the past) would gladly hand over $19.99 for an OS X update without missing a beat, and even defend it.
Yes, that is right, respond to this comment by defending Apple in this case makes you a retarded oblivious hipster fanboy and there is no denying it because there is no rational argument that can be made for Apple charging for trivial OS X upgrades when they have offered free substantial iOS upgrades in the past, so why were you part of the 3 million?
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.