Mountain Lion mauls other OS X editions for top spot
Five months after its release, Apple's Mountain Lion became the most widely-used version of OS X, a Web measurement firm said Tuesday.
According to California-based Net Applications, OS X 10.8, better known as Mountain Lion, accounted for 32%, or nearly a third, of all Macs that went online during December. That was an increase of nearly three percentage points from November, when Mountain Lion powered just over 29% of all Macs.
Apple released Mountain Lion on July 25, 2012. Most of Mountain Lion's gains came at the expense of OS X 10.7, or Lion, whose share of all Macs dropped from 30% to 28%. Snow Leopard lost less than one percentage point in December, a smaller-than-usual decline for the 2009 OS X 10.6, which in the last year has averaged a drop of about one-and-a-half points each month.
