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Hey there. I'm the developer of AppTrap, an uninstaller for Mac OS X. I also do iOS development. This blog represents my ramblings on the tech industry. And sometimes politics.

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Jul 26

A Tale of Two Brands

Here’s Lion’s promotional image on the Mac App Store. Click the images to see larger versions.

Lion App Store

Here’s the Lion page on Apple’s website.

Lion Webpage

Mac OS X’s marketing is such a clear reflection of its strengths, mainly its versatility as an operating system for both average as well as power users (e.g. Unix geeks). You don’t get much further apart than space and lions. But there it is. The powerful, elegant king of the jungle married to the vast and unexplored heavens.

Apple has been doing this kind of dual-branding ever since Leopard, but they really seem to have nailed it with this release.