During the first two weeks of its release, Snow Leopard outsold Apple’s two previous operating systems by a wide margin and set a record for the Mac maker.
Sales of Apple’s latest OS were more than two times higher than its predecessor, Leopard, and almost four times more than Leopard’s predecessor, Tiger, according to the NPD Group, which tracks retail sales, excluding online sales.
It’s likely that the low prices might be influencing upgrade decisions, even though it is “less feature focused”, as the article says. It raises some good questions about the most effective release cycle. That is, Apple’s frequent and cheap releases (with minor changes) vs Microsoft’s slow and expensive releases (with major changes). I will be very interested to see how enthusiastically Windows 7 is greeted by the market in its early days of release.
