Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25

Apple will launch OS X Mountain Lion July 25 if it repeats what it did last year when it announced the then-new Lion a day immediately after its quarterly earnings phone with Wall Street analysts.

Monday, Apple scheduled its subsequent earnings contact for 2:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 24, once the corporation will reveal revenue numbers for the just-ended April-June quarter.

Final year at this time, Apple employed a July 19, 2011 earnings call to announce the scheduled launch of OS X ten.7, aka Lion, for your upcoming day.

"We are incredibly excited to be launching Mac OS X Lion tomorrow," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO, throughout the early phases in the earnings call final year.

Apple dutifully launched Lion early Wednesday, July 20, in the Mac App Shop.

If Apple follows previous practice, Oppenheimer will utilize the earnings call in three weeks to set the release date for Mountain Lion.

Up to now, the only official word from Apple is that Mountain Lion will debut some time this month. Prospects running OS X Snow Leopard or Lion can upgrade for the new edition.

OS X 10.eight will be priced at $19.99, a 33% low cost from last year's Lion, and half what rival Microsoft ideas to charge for its upgrade to Windows eight later this year. The upgrade might be available as being a download from the Mac App Store.

Apple has not stated regardless of whether it should repeat final year's provide of physical media for the upgrade -- in 2011 it offered a USB flash drive containing Lion for $69 -- but individuals who have slow dial-up connections or metered hyperlinks on the Web have other options, like using an Apple retail store's Wi-Fi connection, to download the 3GB+ Mountain Lion file.

Individuals who order a fresh Mac on or right after June 11 are eligible for a cost-free upgrade to Mountain Lion. Much more facts will likely be posted to this web page to the company's web page the moment Mountain Lion is released.

Most analysts are expecting huge numbers from Apple's earnings report later this month.

Brian Marshall, a monetary analyst with ISI, has projected second-quarter numbers that consist of 28 million iPhones, a 38% improve year-over-year; 14 million iPads, up 51% in the very same time period in 2011; and four.four million Macs, 12% over final year.

Each Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets and Andy Hargreaves of Pacific Crest Securities, meanwhile, have pegged Apple's quarterly income at $39.2 billion, a 59% year-over-year increase.