Despite all the shouts of “I won’t be upgrading because there’s nothing great in Leopard”, it still beat Tiger by a solid margin of 20.5 percent. That’s not including preinstalled copies that are now in all new Macs. No, this is all the users that either clicked online or hoofed it down to stores to upgrade.
That’s platform health. Not only are we gaining marketshare, but those users are taking a genuine interest. I’d venture a guess that most computer users never upgrade their OS. In fact (anecdotal as it may be), but back in college, my roommate was using Windows 98 and wouldn’t upgrade to Windows XP despite the fact that it was free because he was afraid of stuff breaking.
Also worthy of note is the higher percentage of family pack sales. Nearly a third of all sales were for the multiple machine license. We loves our Macs and can’t stop at just one.
Apple needs to fix Leopard small networking quirks before a larger adoption rate is to be achieved.
I'm a little concerned about some of the math. A family-pack is a 5 seat license for Mac OS X which costs $199. A single license costs $129.
I assume that the NPD group is counting a family pack as 5 units. They say that about one third of the sales are family packs. If an Apple store sold 300 boxes then that would be 200 single license boxes and 100 family packs for a total of 700 licenses.
However, when they talk about purchase price they say that the family packs contributed to an *increase* in purchase price. At our theoretical store, 200 single licenses and 100 family packs average out to $152 per purchase.
However, if you are counting the licenses then the average price per license actually *decreases* to $65. I think this would be a more accurate way of averaging out the price. When I bought a family pack, I budgeted it out as $40 per license.
I'm a little concerned about some of the math. A family-pack is a 5 seat license for Mac OS X which costs $199. A single license costs $129.
I assume that the NPD group is counting a family pack as 5 units. They say that about one third of the sales are family packs. If an Apple store sold 300 boxes then that would be 200 single license boxes and 100 family packs for a total of 700 licenses.
However, when they talk about purchase price they say that the family packs contributed to an *increase* in purchase price. At our theoretical store, 200 single licenses and 100 family packs average out to $152 per purchase.
However, if you are counting the licenses then the average price per license actually *decreases* to $65. I think this would be a more accurate way of averaging out the price. When I bought a family pack, I budgeted it out as $40 per license.
I'm a little concerned about some of the math. A family-pack is a 5 seat license for Mac OS X which costs $199. A single license costs $129.
I assume that the NPD group is counting a family pack as 5 units. They say that about one third of the sales are family packs. If an Apple store sold 300 boxes then that would be 200 single license boxes and 100 family packs for a total of 700 licenses.
However, when they talk about purchase price they say that the family packs contributed to an *increase* in purchase price. At our theoretical store, 200 single licenses and 100 family packs average out to $152 per purchase.
However, if you are counting the licenses then the average price per license actually *decreases* to $65. I think this would be a more accurate way of averaging out the price. When I bought a family pack, I budgeted it out as $40 per license.
I have been using Leopard from the first day on a G5 Quad and a powerbbook. Plus I have install it on several system with no issues. I say just install it and enjoy
Can't get Evocam to work with leopard. Can't get Time Machine to work either. Most frustrating OS release since version 9.