Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Downloading Lion is a pain in the ass unless you live in a big city over here.
Or you could *gasp* leave your Mac on overnight.
Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Downloading Lion is a pain in the ass unless you live in a big city over here.
This is a bad move by Apple. There are a lot of people who live out in rural areas where high speed internet access are not available. We can't download OSX. This is the end of the road for us. I upgraded my son's computer to OSX Lion because I could get it on the USB thumbdrive. I paid the extra ($69 total) to get it on the thumb drive. Downloading it is just not feasible. Apple is alienating many users this way.
This is a bad move by Apple. There are a lot of people who live out in rural areas where high speed internet access are not available. We can't download OSX. This is the end of the road for us. I upgraded my son's computer to OSX Lion because I could get it on the USB thumbdrive. I paid the extra ($69 total) to get it on the thumb drive. Downloading it is just not feasible. Apple is alienating many users this way.
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...
I'm unaware of any data limit on my internet service. But, this question is about the moment. I'm concerned how things can change in the future.
I mean...I use to have unlimited AT&T data on my phone and look how that has changed.
Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Downloading Lion is a pain in the ass unless you live in a big city over here.
I absolutely positively could not agree with you more. Even though it does not effect me, I find this very unsettling.This is a bad move by Apple. There are a lot of people who live out in rural areas where high speed internet access are not available. We can't download OSX. This is the end of the road for us. I upgraded my son's computer to OSX Lion because I could get it on the USB thumbdrive. I paid the extra ($69 total) to get it on the thumb drive. Downloading it is just not feasible. Apple is alienating many users this way.
Apple doesn't give a **** about the .1% of people like you who don't have real internet. And they shouldn't. Move.
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.
This is a bad move by Apple. There are a lot of people who live out in rural areas where high speed internet access are not available. We can't download OSX. This is the end of the road for us. I upgraded my son's computer to OSX Lion because I could get it on the USB thumbdrive. I paid the extra ($69 total) to get it on the thumb drive. Downloading it is just not feasible. Apple is alienating many users this way.
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've never used the Mac App Store and I never will. I'll just stick with Snow Leopard until my MacBook Pro breaks.
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.
And how many of those people use mac os x?
I dont see why you should get mountain lion in first place if you dont have internet - i mean all new features are requiring you to have high speed internet, especially for software updates and icloud photostream. And i have never seen anyone complaining that apple dont release every single software updates via discs or usb drives for those who dont have broadband.
If you dont have broadband, you probably wont be making good use of the operating system anyway, so it is not the operating system of choice for you.
Wrong. A lot of people out in rural areas do not have broadband of a speed sufficient to make downloading OSX feasible. The world is not yet interconnected at high speeds. It is attitudes like yours that creates the digital divide. Reality check, please.
Wow...... I just don't know how to reply to that. So ignorant.
I've never used the Mac App Store and I never will. I'll just stick with Snow Leopard until my MacBook Pro breaks.
Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Downloading Lion is a pain in the ass unless you live in a big city over here.
Average UK broadband speed is 6.2Mbit/s, average advertised speed is 13.8Mbit/s
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We don't have 'local' Apple stores in England.
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/storelist/ There is plenty of stores around the country!
I have a reasonable connection speed, it took about a day to download lion, so it is do-able, but not practical. Apple TV is a waste of time here, I can't stream anything. So I have a boxee with my own content on it.
Is your computer wired to the router? or are you you using wireless? You are assuming that your connection was the reason for the slow download, but if you are having trouble streaming to a Appletv then its your router and your wireless is probably out of date. Demand a new router from ISP and upgrade to N wireless and you will have no problem streaming to a Appletv with a decent connection as you claim to have. Plugging in to the router with a network cable will make any big downloads faster.
But what made me post was the ignorance of some people here.
It isn't a minority of people with poor broadband. A lot of people have poor broadband in England. And it's nothing to do with ISP's, its to do with the technology we have.
Can you quantify this statement? ISP's are giving out N wireless router these days. Also check this to see who has bad BB http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/broadband/
Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Hi, I'm from the UK.
Over here, our average downspeed is currently 0.5mbps. Yeah, that's the whole country.
Downloading Lion is a pain in the ass unless you live in a big city over here.