Apple sells 7 million Mountain Lion upgrades in less than 2 months

 During the Apple iPhone 5 event earlier today Apple Chief Executive, Tim Cook, took the time to bring us the latest sales figures for OS X Mountain Lion stating that more than 7 million users have upgraded to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion since it launched in late July.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook announced at Wednesday’s keynote that Apple notebooks have ranked No. 1 in U.S. market share in the last 3 months, totally the Mac lineup currently holds 27 percent of the overall PC market. The Mac experienced a 15 percent year over year growth since the latest Macs launched in June, this is compared to the  overall PC market, which has only experienced a growth of a mere 2 percent.

Below are some of the other numbers Tim Cook presented during his update:

• 7 million OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion upgrades sold to date.
• MacBooks now rank as the #1 laptop in the US in the last three months.
• MacBooks account for 27% of the laptop market.
• Mac sales have seen 15% YOY growth vs 2% on the Windows side.
• 17 million iPad sold from April to June (!!!)
• More iPads sold during that time than all other PCs
• iPad has 68% market share – up from 62% last year.
• iPad is 91% of all tablet web traffic
• Virtually all of the Fortune 500 is testing or deploying iPads
• 700,000 apps now on the App Store
• 250,000 of those are iPad-specific
• Average iOS user using 100 apps
• Apple has now sold 400 million iOS devices