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Mountain Lion had previously prompted users to upgrade, with a pop-up window on first-time startup that stated that "a new version of OS X is available. For example, iLife 7 first offered to free upgrade iLife for Mac to iLife for Mac Lion, then offered a similar free upgrade solely to users of Snow Leopard. However, according to Chitika Insights, this changed to 3.2% within the first 48 hours of Mountain Lion release, and 10% within the first month.Īpple has used its update policy to offer a free upgrade from the previous OS X release to the new one to all users who bought the earlier OS X release. When it was first released, Mountain Lion had a 0% penetration rate of OS X users. Between January 28 and February 4, Mountain Lion made up 46.4% of downloads overall.

Additionally, OS X Lion was dropped from Apple's update policy, and therefore users who bought it after 2013 (after Lion or Mountain Lion was released) were no longer guaranteed a free upgrade.Īccording to a report by Chitika Insights, Mountain Lion was the most downloaded OS X application within the first week on the Mac App Store. According to a report by TechWeekEurope, "the vast majority" of Mac users upgraded to Mountain Lion from OS X Lion.