Can Apple tell you have Lion just through IP?

[applefan289]

They can tell how many were sold through the App Store through downloads/receipts.

But do they keep tabs on their customers? If they did not have a receipt for me, would they still know my computer is running Lion from a database on their end?

Just trying to see the extent of the networking here.

 

[Gav2k]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Yes they can tell what os you are running! But why ask? Go spend the cash and buy I legit!

 

[applefan289]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Yes they can tell what os you are running! But why ask? Go spend the cash and buy I legit!

I did, I'm just interested in the networking portion.

Does Apple have a database on their end that shows how many Macs are running Lion right now.

 

[Gav2k]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Apple has never bothered with keys etc because it's a hardware company for the most part. Do they know who is running what? Yes they do.