AppleInsider Staff
In fact, those sales are a whopping 80 percent increase over Lion's predecessor, Snow Leopard, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook announced during his company's iPhone keynote.
Cook compared Lion to the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7, which he said took 20 weeks to reach 10 percent of the Windows install base. For Apple, Lion was in use by 10 percent of the Mac install base in just two weeks.
The CEO also touted that the Mac platform has grown by 23 percent since last year, easily outpacing the overall PC market's growth of just 4 percent. Cook also revealed that the MacBook Pro and iMac are the number one selling notebook and desktop in the U.S.
He also boasted about the success of the thin-and-light MacBook Air, which he said competitors have been attempting to copy on their own.
With the Mac platform having an install base of 58 million users worldwide, Cook said there is a great deal of room for growth for Apple.
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Best OS I've ever used in terms of usability, it's just not as bulletproof as Snow Leopard was.
Best OS I've ever used in terms of usability, it's just not as bulletproof as Snow Leopard was.
Lion is a complete disaster from a security standpoint with holes big enough to sail an aircraft carrier through. Every Lion user is a victim waiting to be exploited.
So, according to the numbers in the article, they sold 5,800,000 copies of Lion in the first 2 weeks and then a further 200,000 in the last 8 weeks.
So Lion is unlikely to make it to 20% of the installed base (as it will take more than 2 years).
Is that correct? This doesn?t sound right to me.
Lion is a complete disaster from a security standpoint with holes big enough to sail an aircraft carrier through. Every Lion user is a victim waiting to be exploited.
So exploit me, then. I've been waiting over twenty years, I can wait a while longer.
Pity Lion isn't very good, isn't it?
The problem is, Snow Leopard was extremely refined and all the pieces worked well to provide a good user experience. Lion just seems fragmentary. Some of the gestures don't quite work (show desktop), mission control becomes a mess with lots of open apps and since the OS encourages you to have lots of apps open, this is a problem. Launchpad has no way or getting an overview of the apps and organising them. It all has to be done in situ, which is a bore. 10.7.1 seems beset by huge bugs. The design principles that brought consistency and simplicity seems to have been thrown away in favour of the arbitrary import of iPhone concepts that don't belong there. Lion is beginning to annoy me in the way Windows annoys me. The OS should never bully the user, and Lion is on the way to doing that. If it actually added up to more than a few fragmentary parts that don't really add up to an upgrade perhaps I wouldn't mind.