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Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:45AM from the busy-servers dept.

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.'"

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Mac is the cheaper alternative by FranTaylor · 2012-07-30 07:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If you are a typical professional software developer and your OSX machine saves you five minutes every day in time and frustration compared to a similar Windows system, then the added price of the OSX machine will pay for itself in less than a year.