Apple Removes OS X Lion and Mountain Lion From Online Store

[ikramerica]

I remember buying this at my campus library while in school. Father time remains undefeated.

“Time‘s arrow marches forward…”

 

[ikramerica]

I think the market is wide open for a disrupter to come in with actual good, complete, finalized, software again.

Even Apple baffles me. Software gets updated, but I would hesitate to call it progress. It's like they have to make changes to justify their existence. At some point we have to accept that computers are like refrigerators now. They all keep your food cold.

Want to see people start thinking of tech as more of an appliance. Even basic cheap computers now run at speeds that would satisfy 99% of the population.

Yep. For most macOS releases it comes down to hafta vs wanna. I don’t upgrade until I hafta because I don’t wanna.

 

[Hagrid]

I still have a Snow Leopard disc in my desk.

I still have all the install discs from Classic OS8 through Snow Leopard, including the original MacOS X 10.0 disk. You may disagree with me, but I still like the old Aqua GUI. Wish there was some middle ground between Aqua and what we have now.

@ArrayDecay - thumbs up on the "Dark Side of Oz" avatar

 

[t0rqx]

I miss the days when upgrades were real awesome meaningful upgrades (Snow Leopard). The releases nowadays should be changed to a bugtheme instead of California POI.

 

[CLS9]

I've kept all the old installation DVDs and floppies. I'm sure that someday they'll be worth gazillions.

 

[freedomlinux]

Feh! I could install MS-DOS in an IBM-390 with a few million of those:

OK - doing the math. The generic 3.5" floppy drive is 1.44MB (~1,500,000 bytes).
An 80-column punch card holds 80 characters, but they are actually using a 12-bit encoding so you could have 960 bytes using a custom format.

It would take 1,500+ punch cards per 3.5" floppy disk.

 

[chrfr]

MR needs to do a bit better!

As does Macworld, where the incorrect story originated!

 

[bobbybino]

I don’t know why people are cheering on the death of physical media. You’re just giving away control. I can take a CD of Office 2010 and install it on a machine and not have to worry about subscriptions, cloud updates that break things, AWS being up or down, or some bull around lawsuits or copyrights causing them to take it down or to take away some functionality. I can just use it like the way it should be.

You can download whatever you want instead of getting a cd/dvd. Then just squirrel it away somewhere until you need it. You can even copy it to cd/dvd if you want to stay old school.

 

[ddhhddhh2]

Until that adorable big cat eats your dog or child.

Thank God I have no kid and dog.

 

[rizzo41999]

I have a 10.3 disc. Complete with box and manuals!

 

[iwan073]

Snow Leopard was simply the best OS ever, IMO. Everything you needed, nothing you didn't, and as stable as they come.

I believe that's the first OS I used when buying my first iMac in 2011

 

[svish]

Did not know that the CDs were still being sold. Don't think it will be a problem as not many will not be needing this now.

 

[tonmischa]

As does Macworld, where the incorrect story originated!

The Macworld Article has been corrected.

Editor’s note: Roman’s faulty memory incorrectly stated originally that Apple removed the installation discs from the Apple Store. Apple actually offered Lion and Mountain Lion download codes through the Apple Store online and has ceased doing so.

OS X Lion and Mountain Lion are no longer in the Apple Store

Apple stops selling the OS X Lion and Mountain Lion in its online store.

www.macworld.com

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

I remember when Microsoft Office came on at least 20 3.5 inch floppies. Good riddance!

Damn, you're bringing back memories. Needing entire boxes of floppies to store a single software installation. Long glad to see that end of that.

 

[DaveMcM76]

I remember when Microsoft Office came on at least 20 3.5 inch floppies. Good Driddance!

From back in the days when an entire OS only needed 3 floppies.... Still got a set of Windows 3.11 floppies somewhere too, but haven't owned a computer with an actual floppy drive in it for well over 15 years!

 

[Shirasaki]

They will try to eat it, thinking it’s a cookie.

And a shiny one too.

 

[Shirasaki]

Give me Final Fantasy VII. Battlefield 1942. Ocarina of Time.

Give me quality content on launch day.

Unfortunately everyone is rushing their content and customers want quality content to be delivered 24*7, even though that’s definitely NOT how it works. (Saw a debate about a recent mobile game’s storyline being too short, and my argument was quality content didn’t come cheap)

Launch day quality has long fallen into obscurity, if not outright into the dustbin of the history, which is a sad thing to say.

You youngins with your itty bitty floppies and teeny wenie USB boot drives. Real men go 5.25 and larger. Don't make me pull out my TRS 80 and coal roll my F350, now get off my lawn:

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I like old man’s spirit challenging today’s status quo mentality.

 

[MacHeritage]

Who would use any macOS older than Yosemite anyway??

My Gosh so old and outdated.

Actually I use 10.5 and 10.4 including some web surfing once in a while for my PPC and I use 10.6.8 in a VM all the time on the Mac Pro for my Canon film scanner, old AirPort app for full control, SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, AppleWorks 6 and lots more. If I could run the latest apps with the old OS and old apps, I would be using that old Mac OS X version every day! It really just works so well and was so supported by apps etc. at the time.

 

[MacHeritage]

I’m too lazy to look on Google, what was the last Mac with an optical disc drive? Was it the pre-trash can Mac Pro?

MacBook Pro 2012 15-inch unibody, was the last final "release" with an optical drive. The Mac Pro was released in 2010 so is older for the year "release" part. Sold? I don't remember off the top of my head.

 

[chrfr]

MacBook Pro 2012 15-inch unibody, was the last final "release" with an optical drive. The Mac Pro was released in 2010 so is older for the year "release" part. Sold? I don't remember off the top of my head.

Last sold was surely the 2012 13” MBP unibody, which was sold new until October, 2016.

 

[MacHeritage]

Last sold was surely the 2012 13” MBP unibody, which was sold new until October, 2016.

How could I have forgotten that one! You are so right.