Mac OS X Leopard Sales Are Looking Good

Some time has passed since Apple's Leopard was released into the wild IT world, and now first reports about its sales started to arrive. Best part of this is the fact that, as figures show, Leopard is the best-selling operating system from Steve Jobs' company so far. Obviously, there's a long road ahead until we'll see an OS from Apple fighting head to head with its competitor from Microsoft, if that will ever happen, but...


...let's see what numbers we have here, shall we? According to a study conducted by NPD Group, in the first month on the market, Leopard sold 20.5 percent more than Tiger, 30 percent more compared to 2003's update known as Panther, and 100 percent up, compared to first month of sales for 2002's Mac OS X release, Jaguar.

It may sound great but, in fact, I am sure that a part of these sales have been accomplished because Apple's retail chain has grown bigger, and we must also take into account the fact that Vista's performance contributed to a drop in usage of alternative operating systems, such as Ubuntu, now preinstalled on some Dell desktop computers and laptops and, of course, Leopard.

These being said, all I wish to see next is the sales and usage figures once a year since Leopard's official launch will pass, as well as how the OS market is going to change by late 2008, but there's still a long wait ahead, unfortunately...