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Leopards move faster than tigers. At least they do for Apple. The Cupertino company announced on Tuesday it has moved more than two million copies of its new OS since its 6 p.m. release on Friday. Those include copies sold at Apple retail stores, authorized resellers, Apple's online store, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac computers.
As Mac Daily News reports, on June 6, 2005, Apple said it expected to reach the two million copy mark for Tiger (OS X 10.4) by the end of that same week, which fell on June 11, 2005. In comparison, Tiger was first released at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 29, 2005, so it took 43 days to sell two million copies of OS X 10.4.
Microsoft, on the other hand, said it sold "nearly 40 million copies" of Vista during the first 100 days, which the company claims was twice as fast as the adoption rate for Windows XP. That's an average of about 400,000 copies per day. For now, Apple is apparently moving close to 1 million copies of Leopard per day, and even if that rate drops (which it certainly will), the company could at the very least post some competitive figures in three months.
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