on pirate bay i see 3000 downloads so far . on mininova about 500 and those are just 2 torrent sites i just looked at. The first major torrent (not linking to it here for obvious reasons) is still in tens of thousands of downloaders after one day. By a conservative estimate say 15000 people have installed it. Its one of those things that making the rounds. At the moment Apple is about 4.5% market share. Apple's
q2 2005 results show 1,070,000 macs sold. That is ajust under 12000 Mac's a day. Compare that to the number of people downloading/have downloaded this still technically complicated 'installer' . I dont know how many people would download 1.3 gigs and not run it at least once.
I dont know how many people would download 1.3 gigs and not run it at least once At 1.3 gigs, I would imagine a lot of those "downloads" are "do overs".
Still, 3000 downloads is hardly a SURGE, don't you think? Actually, it's barely a ripple.