Leopard outsells Vista in Japan
Posted on 14th November 2007 in Mac OS | 4 Comments »
Somewhat unpredictable has happened in Japan – Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard has been way more successful than Windows Vista.
According to Japanese Business Computer News OS X sales have gone up from 15.5% to 60.5% while Windows sales fell from 75.3% down to 28.7%.
Such a market change makes sense as Vista’s licencing policy is overwhelmingly complex and Apple has pushed out updates to its software packages quite aggressively.
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Great news Ain. I am not sure how it is in Japan, but I know that in Hong Kong it is almost impossible to by legal copies of games. Pirate copies are sold in high street shop for as little as $1.50. At least thats how much I got one for a few years back.
I guess the increased use of the internet over games may also account for this.
Yes, any competition is good. I’d love to see Linux around as well.
I think they only considered legitimate copies of software in the stats but it’s interesting you mentioned Hong Kong because I did a little research and by the latest e-Readiness rankings Japan is rated 18th while Hong Kong is rated 4th:
1. Denmark
2. Sweden
2. US
4. Hong Kong
5. Switzerland
6. Singapore
7. UK
8. Netherlands
9. Australia
10. Finland
11. Austria
12. Norway
13. Canada
14. New Zealand
15. Bermuda
16. South Korea
17. Taiwan
18. Japan
19. Germany
20. Belgium
21. Ireland
22. France
23. Israel
24. Malta
25. Italy
26. Spain
27. Portugal
28. Estonia
29. Slovenia
30. Chile
e-Readiness is the ability to use ICT to develop one’s economy and to foster one’s welfare. It’s the annual report by The Economist Intelligence Unit. There were 69 countries rated in 2007.
A golden rule Ain: Don’t believe statistics and especially those by the EIU.
Except in Japan; they call it “Reapard”……