Apple ’s new Leopard operating system take a sizable bite of the Japanese retail operating organization grocery store during October and accounted for over one-half of all sales of packaged operating system software despite being on sale for only the last six days of the month .
OS X Leopard , which is the first major update to the Apple operating scheme in more than two year , take a 53.9 per centum share of the marketplace , according to figures from Japan ’s BCN . The company takes pointedness - of - sales system datum from 2,200 retailers across the land and utilize that to estimate nationwide sale .
The single - user license adaptation , which costs ¥ 14,700 ( US$ 134 ) , accounted for a 46 percent share while the five - drug user “ family unit clique , ” which has a ¥ 22,700 price tag , had a 7.9 percent part .
The software exit on sale worldwide on Oct. 26 with sales kvetch off at 6 p.m. local sentence in each country . Users in New Zealand and Australia got their script on Leopard first , but Tokyo saw the first launching at an Apple retail storage . About 200 people lined up in light rain to buy the software at Apple ’s store in the ritzy Ginza district of Tokyo . Lines also forge at other Apple stores across the country and at major electronics retailers , where especial events were nurse to grade the start of sales .
commingle with other sales of other operating system of rules including Tiger , Apple had an overall 60.7 percent share of the market in October — that ’s a big jump from the 15.5 percent share it had in September , which was itself the eminent part Apple had managed to get so far in 2007 .
While some of the kick from the launching has started to endure off , Apple remains in top shoes in the Japanese operating system market in November . For the hebdomad of Nov. 6 to Nov. 12 the single - user license of Leopard had a 40.4 percent share . The near competitor was Microsoft ’s Windows XP Home Edition SP2 , which had a 10.5 per centum part .
