For the fiscal year, Mac sales totaled 16.8 million, bringing the total number of Mac users worldwide to about 60 million.Ī speed test comparison by CNET found almost no meaningful difference between Snow Leopard and Lion. Apple also announced a new record for Mac sales: 4.89 million, or 760,000 more than in any previous quarters. Two months later, by the end of Apple's fourth quarter, another 5 million had downloaded it, perhaps in part enticed by a dramatic price cut, to $30 from $129. The next day, Apple announced a million downloads had already taken place, making Lion the fastest-selling Mac OS release in the company's history. SLIDESHOW: Mac OS X Lion's top 20 features
NETWORK WORLD's HOTTEST TECH ARGUMENTS: Read them all here Those included multi-touch gestures, system-wide support for full screen apps, revamped Mail application, a new way to see easily all running applications and active windows (called Mission Control), the now-built-in Mac App Store (analogous to the iOS App Store for finding and downloading programs), and Launchpad, a full-screen, grid-like display of available applications, which can be re-arranged and grouped into folders.
Lion, or formally Mac OS X 10.7, was finally released July 20, 2011, with over 250 new features.
