It was one of the most secure, stable, compatible and high rated operating systems of its time. The operating system got popular within six months, as within 2 first weeks after the release more than 2 million copies were sold.ĭue to Mac OS X Tiger, Apple covered about 16% of the market. Observing the results, we can say that Apple really did what they wanted to do. It was one of those operating systems that was fighting with the legendary Windows XP. The operating system got popular in a bat of an eye, many users were liking it and it was booming in the market. At the end of April 29, 2005, Apple released its fifth major release of the Macintosh operating system aka Tiger. So, soon time they released Mac OS X Tiger to gain the trust of users and also to provide something which really worth their time. Considering all those operating systems like Mac OS X Jaguar, or Puma in the past, Apple was not creating quite a good image.