Apple Launches OS X Mountain Lion via Mac App Store for $19.99

[prospervic]

Only took 57 tries...

...but now downloading.

Notice how the blog sites posted the news of ML's availability 2 minutes BEFORE it showed up in the Mac App Store? (At least in my case, that is.)

 

[BreuerEditor]

Mine still says "Downloading" in Launchpad. Anyone else experiencing this? No downloaded %?

EDIT: Nevermind it's showing the amount downloaded in "Purchases". Around 3MB/sec ~ 35 minutes left!!!

 

[Narsqt]

Ok, it's up on the UK app store now. Bought and Downloading

 

[usc2k]

It's working now in the Spanish store.

 

[lzs]

The Up-to-Date app isn't working though. Getting the 404 not found error.

 

[dmk1974]

For my 2012 MacBook Air, the free upgrade link just gives a 404 error page. Anyone else yet have success participating in the free upgrade program yet?

 

[ATC]

In Canada, no issues with downloading (yet), it's almost 1/2 way done and it's coming in quite fast (>2MB/s).

 

[ilikecorn500]

Ugh!!! Anyone else getting this?

I am. And it's annoying me.

EDIT: Working after a few more tries!

 

[Yelmurc]

The safe thing to do is to wait till after the first patch.

Downloading now.....

 

[Marlor]

Error 100 still.

Come on, I just want to start the download and go to bed.

 

[usc2k]

Mine still says "Downloading" in Launchpad. Anyone else experiencing this? No downloaded %?

In the app store, go to "purchases" and you can see the remaining amount of time left.

 

[KALLT]

why would they do that?

I don’t know, compatibility perhaps? The App Store is the only source for Lion, without it, customers who cannot upgrade to Mountain Lion anymore are stuck with an older system.

 

[macingman]

My MBP is too old for Mountain Lion and I've held off on going to Lion since Snow Leopard has been just fine for me. Now that iCloud is becoming more mature, I've been considering upgrading to Lion. Unfortunately, it appears that they are still charging $30 for Lion when ML is only $20. I know $10 isn't a big deal, but I was hoping they'd drop it to match ML.

You can upgrade Snow leopard straight to Mountain Lion.

Edit: I can confirm OSX lion is no longer on the app store.

 

[vabello]

Yup. Same error message here.

It's working for me now! Downloading.

 

[iPhoneApple]

Finally got it to download. So excited for the iCloud integration.

 

[Itpirate]

4.05 gb

It says 4.34GB for me?

 

[Razeus]

I'll wait until the crazies go away and the servers aren't getting gang banged.

 

[Djlild7hina]

It took me a few tries as I had to exit app store and re-open to get it to work. Now downloading

 

[Feltzem]

Newzealanders have to pay $25!! Lol!!!

Lol! And get this - those living in Japan have to pay $1565! Sucks for them! /s

 

[tekno]

Same here, not a good start

I think you meant to say "Not a surprise". It's the same each time. Apple do it on purpose to over-egg the demand. They do the same when they release the iPhone - throttle the supply and you have queues outside shops and therefore free publicity.

 

[sikkinixx]

ain't working for this canuck yet. Oh well. Same thing happened with Lion.

 

[Zarkizon]

Still waiting for the form on the Up-to-Date page on the Apple website...

 

[mayerkim]

Did a quick rough calculation and it seems like I'm downloading at about 4.25MB/s... translating into about 16~17 minutes. WIN!

 

[BreuerEditor]

It says 4.34GB for me?

Same here in the "Purchases" section. On that app page though it does say 4.05. Wonder why there's a difference....

 

[SueG]

its also in the uk store. But getting temporarily unavailable