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Mac OS X Lion gets 1 million downloads on first day

We knew it would be popular, but a million in a day? All hail the Lion king

Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion was always going to be a popular pup, but to sell one million copies on its first day of release is biblically epic. True, Mac OS X 10.7’s full-screen apps, multi-touch gestures and system-wide autosave and recovery are all lovely – but selling a million of anything, no matter how good, in a day is impressive. But at a rather affordable £21 and with the ease of getting it as a download, Apple has once again found a new way to sell innovatively. Now if they can be that ground-breaking with the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 we’ll be happy.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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