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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.'"
"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."
or?
We were all very eager for a path forward that offered fixes and completion for Lion's half-realized and sometimes infuriating design / implementation choices. :-)
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
All Apple users are fanboys/girls. You just become one after having used such marvellously perfect hardware and software for a while. Face it: there is nothing better!
-- Cheers!
We were all very eager for a path forward that offered fixes and completion for Lion's half-realized and sometimes infuriating design / implementation choices. :-)
Ah, yes. Going forward, I propose that we call this the "Windows Vista Hangover effect."
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I sent it from my *rad* free Linux distribution of the month. If only I could find that config file that moves from distro to distro to change it.
Where I work people can enter their own job titles on the internal 'phone book' on the intranet.
As you can imagine everyone is senior this, senior that etc ... except for one of the sysadmins in India who is the 'Most Senior Systems Administrator'
I wish we had that. I'd be High Potentate And Head Muckety Muck.
No, wait... SENIOR High Potentate And Head Muckety Muck.
...just poking MS with a stick to amuse yourself?
It's the simple things that make you smile.
"There are just nine of these guys"
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne...
Ooooerrrr! Jony Ive must have made them out of Aluminium, maybe Titanium for the Tim Cook's One!
VP of middle eastern marketing,
Read this as "VP of middle earth marketing."
One veep to rule them all,
One veep to find them,
One veep to sell them all and with an iPad blind them,
Ceci n'est pas un sig.