Apple
Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) new operating system seems to have caught the fancy of Mac
users with more than 3 million downloads in four days, the company said in
statement.
The
newest operating system from Apple, Mac OS X Mountain Lion, was launched just
about a year back and with the recent downloads has become its most successful
operating system.
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"Just
a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have
downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it
our most successful release ever," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice
president of Worldwide Marketing, said in a statement.
The
OS in now running on about 3.2 percent of all Macs though an older version Snow
Leopard still led with about 45 percent of Macs running it, according to data
from mobile advertising firm Chitika.
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Mountain
Lion retails at $19.99 in Mac stores while those who are running 10.6.6 can
upgrade to it online. The company is offering free upgrades to customers who
have bought Macs on or after June 11.
The
revamped operating system had several new features such as iCloud integration
that makes it easier to sync between macs and iOS devices, in effect allowing
all the devices of Apple to talk to each other.
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