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OS X Mountain Lion to Be True Mac App Store Exclusive
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I fully agree. My broadband is really baud-band, its terrible and I can't download things that large. I'm in a rural area and stuck on cheesy wireless internet. If not for the thumb drive option, I'd not be able to update. Sad thing is its $40 a month and no where near DSL speeds, but there's no other options.
I don't really think this is a problem....
The focus has been cloud computing!
If people use extremely slow broadband, then they should keep on using snow leopard or lion if then already have it.
Cloud computing is pretty much useless if you have slow internet connection...
The focus has been cloud computing!
If people use extremely slow broadband, then they should keep on using snow leopard or lion if then already have it.
Cloud computing is pretty much useless if you have slow internet connection...
Well, of course they got a lukewarm response to an offer of a $69 thumb drive. For $69 I can get an ticket on Southwest from just about anywhere in California to fly to Cupertino to download Lion! They can't be surprised if they price something unreasonably high that they then find that nobody wants to buy it. Had the premium for a physical copy been more like on the order of $10, their "test" would have been far more meaningful. Even then, for me, if I had nothing more than my iPhone's 3G data plan with which to download Lion, the overage from doing so would have only been $10 (assuming that I didn't have to do it more than once - Apple's retry stuff had better be perfect).
What, you can't download it at all? What is your download rate? My grandparents in a small town in Arizona get 6mbps download on their Quest DSL, and it's fast enough.
Even if you have something very slow, you can just let it sit and download for a day. My friend has a 300kbps download rate, and he's downloaded 10GB games from Steam.
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Not really. 300KB files are not a problem even for dialup.
No, there is a separate line for your house on the fiber. They don't care one bit how much of it you use.
Thats interesting. The fastest I can get in my area is 256kbps.
Not everyone lives in a big city. I live in next to one of the biggest towns in Europe and can't even get a Mb. I think the article is rather questionable.
I absolutely positively could not agree with you more. Even though it does not effect me, I find this very unsettling.
I am a very loyal and enthusiastic Apple user, it bothers me greatly that Apple can be so difficult, rude, selfish, and arrogant, as to pull crap like this.
I try really hard not to call them greedy, but they are.
Apple is one of the the most self centered of all tech companies. Just because they weren't selling as many Lion USB flash drives as they may have expected to, is no reason to stop offering them to those who truly need one.
The high price is nothing surprising, Apple has never held back on pricing their gear at well above average in many, many cases.
No one can sell like Apple can. No one can convince people to spend money like Apple can. The fact that this new OS is being offered only via download is total rubbish.
I hate it when Apple infuriates me over nonsense like this. And hate is a word I almost never use. Now that Jobs has passed, this latest announcement proves the greed will continue unabated.
Do you use the same philosophy when it comes to politics? Medical care? Civil Rights?
Who cares about those people. They don't count anyway.
Im sure there are places with terrible speeds but to say the average for the uk is 0.5mbps is nonsense.
Wrong take a trip to an apple store and they will help you install it there.
This is not Windows please how many people have actually had to re-install their OS Lion?
Also who do you upgrade?
How do you get new programs?
how do you do anything?
Glad Apple has left this issue behind, moving on I hear Windows 8 rocks muhahahahahahaha.
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Well there is that move out of the boondocks alternative.
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Windows 8 rocks, I think your ready to move over, what do you say?
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Its exactly why I love the Company. I miss Jobs and his snooty attitude. Life was good when he was pissing off the competition and users.
It's not the end of the road for people with slow internet connections. You can still download it. So what if it takes two or three days? Like people have never left downloads on for days at a time before?
I don't understand. Tell me anyone who has complained that Apple don't release software updates on a disc because there are people who don't have internet. If they can download software updates, they can download operating system.
End of story.
I agree with everyone that says this is a terrible move by Apple.
The house I lived in up until a year ago had such a poor broadband speed (of 0.5Mbps) that was one of the deciding factors in us moving. Can you imagine having to download Lion on a 0.5Mbps internet connection? It would be a joke.
The house I lived in up until a year ago had such a poor broadband speed (of 0.5Mbps) that was one of the deciding factors in us moving. Can you imagine having to download Lion on a 0.5Mbps internet connection? It would be a joke.
I don't understand people like you. Couldn't you use your dedication with something that makes sense, like curing world hunger? I don't see why you'd want to "never" use the MAS. It's convenient as hell. Is there a lot of software on it? Not really. But what's on it is easier to download/install/update than any other distribution system before it. Some people are so peculiar.
http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2011/03/0...eed-is-still-less-than-half-advertised-speed/
Do your figures include 3G and dialup?
The picture you paint is that the UK is backwards and everybody is running Windows NT!!!
What made me post here is that none of your comments make sense and you gave no information to back up your opinion.
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It might be because I grew up with Windows, but I prefer to 'clean-install' operating systems. So as long as I can burn the Mountain Lion to disc like I could Lion, no problem (I hate the thought over an OS installing 'on-top-of' the older one. Just isn't right
(I hate the thought over an OS installing 'on-top-of' the older one. Just isn't right 
Absolute nonsense. The *average* UK broadband speed is currently 7.6Mbps, up from 6.2Mbps a year ago.
Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/ne...oadband-speeds-up-22-percent-finds-ofcom.html
I appreciate there are rural areas in the UK (as in many countries) that have issues getting high speed broadband. But I would be very surprised if there is any city in the UK where you can only get 0.5Mbps.
Unimpressed
I saw the video introducing Mountain Lion and I was not impressed by a single feature. Nothing new, no Wow! factor, I wonder if that was just me.
I saw the video introducing Mountain Lion and I was not impressed by a single feature. Nothing new, no Wow! factor, I wonder if that was just me.