Filed under: Leopard
Apple sells 2 million copies of Leopard since Friday
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that people seem to like Leopard. Apple today announced that they have sold two million copies of Leopard since it went on sale on this past Friday. That's an insane amount of sales (the number includes copies sold at retail outlets, online, with new Macs, and via customers using the Up-to-Date program).For comparison let's look at how Tiger did. Tiger went on sale on April 30th, 2005 at 6pm. Apple then announced 6 weeks later that the 2 millionth copy had just been sold. 5 weeks to sell 2 million copies isn't bad, but taking 5 days to do the same is incredible.
Leopard is a hit.
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Andrew said 11:38AM on 10-30-2007
Leopard is awesome, dont get me wrong, but the number of small bugs in it is pretty staggering. There are a lot of little things that seemed to have slipped under Apple's QA radar. For example, if you add the iChat status to your menu bar, clicking on the bubble does nothing. It turns blue but the menu never appears to switch your status. Sure this is small but its the small things like this that usually makes Apple's stuff great. Here's hoping 10.5.1 isn't too far out.
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Absent One said 11:44AM on 10-30-2007
I really like it so far.
This was my first OS upgrade since switching to mac in February. My experience was a good one and things went smooth.
I'm still playing with all the new features and I like all I have seen so far. Granted there are a few apps that are having little issues but its understandable since the devs didn't get a copy until I did. Patience is a virtue for this early adopter. :-)
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Ben said 11:44AM on 10-30-2007
More Leopards in days than iPhones in months. Should get Apple's priorities back in line.
PS This comment field makes MobileSafari super laggy.
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Billy K said 11:48AM on 10-30-2007
Good for Apple. I usually upgrade OS whenever I buy a new Mac (every 1 to 2 years), but I'm actually considering purchasing Leopard. I am going to wait for the .1 release, though. I'm a member of the 600 Club, and it'll be a while before I adopt any Apple product early again. I bet if I wait 2 months, it'll come with a PONY!
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Martin said 11:51AM on 10-30-2007
Ben, the whole damn site is super laggy, not just the comments.
I don't think that this should measure units shipped with Macs. As far as I knew, you didn't have a choice when purchasing a new Mac to keep Tiger, so it's not really a sale.
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merc669 said 11:54AM on 10-30-2007
Leopard is nice but there are some definite issues that has not been covered here. One eyesore is not seeing your networked drives like in Tiger. Some have no problems while others have to resort to "CMD+K" in the "Finder" window and smb://x.x.x.x to get to the share and then only as long as its logged in. Other than that there is a lot more to look into.
Bill.....
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Fred Manning said 11:55AM on 10-30-2007
Another thing to think about on this is that the user base is growing. We have more people on Macs than ever before. PC companies are starting to notice too. Both Dell and Gateway have "all-in-one" iMac clones. MS's Vista wants to be OSX so bad it's really just sad. The Apple bandwagon is humming along at full speed, friends! It's really not shocking that 2 million copies of Leopard have moved. It's going to skyrocket even higher very soon, when A. Leopard is on every new Mac. and B. when all the kinks are worked out from this initial release. Now all Apple needs to do is keep their heads on straight and stop doing retarded things like telling us we can pay cash for their products.
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adrenalin said 11:57AM on 10-30-2007
I have a feeling that if there was more information released to the general public regarding all of the issues with Leopard and other apps (ie: iPhoto, Aperature, etc) that the number of sales would be significantly lower. I know I for one would not have purchased it if I had know that even applications made by Apple didn't work properly with Leopard. For now I have downgraded back to Tiger :(
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Jt Hollister said 11:59AM on 10-30-2007
Hey, I'd like to see some numbers on what Vista did in its first weekend? Only including computer sales for either in such a comparison wouldn't be fair, because that would automatically tack on 5 billion for Vista.
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Jt Hollister said 12:05PM on 10-30-2007
To those mentioning bugs: I don't understand where you come from. I have used Leopard extensively for production purposes, with apps that would be highly prone to glitchiness (Final Cut Studio 2, Adobe CS3, World of Warcraft) and have had absolutely no troubles. They all run with a lot less glitches than Windows!
Also PLEASE make the distinction between APPS that COME with Leopard, and Leopard itself. Because a glitch in iChat is most certainly NOT a glitch in Leopard. Leopard is solid as a rock.
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Photoslob said 12:13PM on 10-30-2007
After 3 days on a dual G5 Mac tower and all I can say is I wish I had waited for v. 10.5.1. A few small pieces of software don't work and I'm having network issues. This morning I woke up and all the info in iCal was gone. I was able to recover it but so far this upgrade has not been issue-free.
On the other hand, upgrading my Macbook coreduo 2 has been fine. So far, so good.
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required said 12:16PM on 10-30-2007
and over 3 million comments from Apple employees masquerading as the general public on how awesome it is and how those that disagree are insane
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WW said 12:18PM on 10-30-2007
"Also PLEASE make the distinction between APPS that COME with Leopard, and Leopard itself. Because a glitch in iChat is most certainly NOT a glitch in Leopard. Leopard is solid as a rock."
Exactly the argument that was made by some about Vista when it came out. If memory serves Apple 'fans' painted that as an excuse... dear oh dear... now we are using the same 'excuse' for Leopard... puts things in perspective, I think.
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iGO said 12:23PM on 10-30-2007
My upgrade went smooth and was perfection itself. Now I'm tweaking and customizing Leopard to my liking, which is very easily done through Leopard itself or third party applications like Pathfinder, Mac Pilot AND TUAW/Macworld suggested hacks. LOVE IT !!!!!
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Matt said 12:28PM on 10-30-2007
It's ironic that with a clean install of Leopard, using Bootcamp with Vista, I'm having more issues with Leopard than I am with Windows. For example, disconnecting removable drives takes forever in Leopard. So does mounting a DVD. And for some reason the keyboard lighting on my MacBookPro is really flaky, when it was fine w/Tiger. I have the same iChat issues reported in previous posts. Also, what's up with the ugly, flat grey icons in Leopard? Coverflow blows me away, but when I browse through my apps and see all those gross icons, it makes me sad. Where'd all the colorful ones go?
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iGO said 12:31PM on 10-30-2007
@ 6 who wrote:
"One eyesore is not seeing your networked drives like in Tiger."
In Leopard, I see my XP drives, XP folders or whatever I choose to share from my XP machine without issue whatsoever.
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Drupa said 12:31PM on 10-30-2007
Oddly, none of the shiny happy sites are reporting about the nightmare some folks are having with this release. Leopard is bricking late-model powerbooks left and right. My G4 1.67 AluBook locked up after a the install failed - there was no way out but to erase everything so I opted to replace the HD myself and attempt data extraction from the removed drive. Browsing the support forums for "grey screen" or Powerbooks showed that there is a high number of PPC folks who have been slaughtered by this shameful public beta. My intel iMac install went better, but ichat and ical are simply broken - they don't even open now. All is not well with Leopard.
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Edsel said 12:38PM on 10-30-2007
WOW! Two million sold!
...but, how many successful installs?
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Jon said 12:52PM on 10-30-2007
My favorite features are Quick look, web clips, and the new front row! I have a mac mini hooked up to my HDTV and front row is perfect for that! Especially now that it reads .VOB files from the hard drive...I would have bought 10.5 just for the new front row alone.
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Goomba said 1:08PM on 10-30-2007
I know this is not is not the right place to post the following link, but I'm not sure how to contact TUAW. Pretty interesting insight on why the Apple/NBC deal crashed.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/10/30/tech-apple.html
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