In a year that’s already seen Apple set records for quarterly Mac sales and sell 1 million iPhones within 74 days of the device’s launch, the company appears to have another best-seller on its hands. Initial sales figures of the Leopard update to Mac OS X make OS X 10.5 the best launch of a Mac OS ever, according to figures compiled by a market-research firm.
NPD Group reported Monday that dollar volume for Leopard is up 32.8 percent over the launch of OS X 10.4 while unit volume is 20.5-percent higher than the OS version code-named Tiger. NPD compared the first full month of sales for the two operating systems’”November 2007 for Leopard and May 2005 for Tiger’”to reach those figures. ‘њIt’s really stunning to see Apple have one blow-out OS launch after another,’ќ Chris Swenson, NPD’s director of software industry analysis wrote in a research note.
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