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OS X Mountain Lion Distributed to AppleCare Representatives Ahead of Public Launch

roland.g said:
People are often under the mistaken myth that Apple makes $$ from their 30% cut. The 30% that Apple charges on the iTunes Store (music, movies, apps, etc), and Mac App Store just covers overhead. It is break even to a minimal profit. They do it because it helps them sell gobs and gobs over iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. It is less than 3-5% of their profit.
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But the cost of Mac OS X is pretty minimal given that it is already very much mature at this point so even if they're generating $1billion in sales with eeking out a $50million profit (5%) I'm sure it would be more than enough to pay for the maintenance of the operating system purely on the basis of man power cost alone.
 
roland.g said:
People are often under the mistaken myth that Apple makes $$ from their 30% cut. The 30% that Apple charges on the iTunes Store (music, movies, apps, etc), and Mac App Store just covers overhead. It is break even to a minimal profit. They do it because it helps them sell gobs and gobs over iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. It is less than 3-5% of their profit.
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Link your source or you're just pulling that out of your buttocks.
 
I'm suspicious of the claim they put it on their work machines. Apple is VERY, VERY careful about what software gets put on their machine, even for OSes and their own software due to the reliance on SAP at the corporate level.

Lion was out for a good six weeks before our machines were upgraded in the Enterprise Sales side of things, as a known bug existed with some SAP buttons not working.

ALL of Apple Corporate runs through SAP, at least as far as repairs and transactions go. There are some front-end applications (ECHO, etc) that make things easier, but SAP is king.

If AppleCare reps have second "test" machines where they can try and reproduce customer issues I can get it, but main machine? No way.
 
CodeBreaker said:
Isn't there a bug where installation fails if the user has enabled FileVault 2 in Lion? I think it will be a disaster if this build goes live..
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Yes, but there was a plausible hypothesis this was only happening for people using the pirated copies. Running the installer that comes from the MAS seems to be fine, yet those who tried to run the extracted InstallESD are the ones who encountered this bug requiring FileVault to be turned off. Doesn't seem to be much of an issue if that holds true.
 
jackhdev said:
I'm still having issues with iTunes and Xcode in the GM. The basic OS seems okay though. I guess they'll fix these bugs in 10.8.1 or individual application updates.
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I had more issues with the GM release than with DP4. All kinds of issues. The annoying Mission Control bug, then Preview bugs. Randomly slow.
 
so excited:D

But am back home in Africa where internet - (in a race with a snail will lose so badly) gonna take me a whole week to upgrade or about 5 days if electricity is constant:(:(
 
C.G.B. Spender said:
I had more issues with the GM release than with DP4. All kinds of issues. The annoying Mission Control bug, then Preview bugs. Randomly slow.
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"Upgrading" an OS X installation is the same as "upgrading" a Windows installation: The only thing that works is formatting the hard disk and making a CLEAN install.

The "upgrade" to Mountain Lion GM took me a week of my spare time because of this, but the result now is actually very good.
 
Winni said:
"Upgrading" an OS X installation is the same as "upgrading" a Windows installation: The only thing that works is formatting the hard disk and making a CLEAN install.

The "upgrade" to Mountain Lion GM took me a week of my spare time because of this, but the result now is actually very good.
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It's far from being the same. It's just QA issue with Apple lately. I've been upgrading Tiger up to Mountain Lion right now with no issues. Mountain Lion is the first one with upgrade issues.
 
austinguy23 said:
Link your source or you're just pulling that out of your buttocks.
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I thought it was pretty well established that this is how Apple run the app store and itms? Apple's margins are all in the hardware... You can see it the quarterly figures that Apple releases -- take a look on Tuesday and note the profitability of the store versus iPad, iPhone, Mac and iPod.
 
JohnDoe98 said:
Yes, but there was a plausible hypothesis this was only happening for people using the pirated copies. Running the installer that comes from the MAS seems to be fine, yet those who tried to run the extracted InstallESD are the ones who encountered this bug requiring FileVault to be turned off. Doesn't seem to be much of an issue if that holds true.
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Wait, what are you saying? I've installed Lion on two of my Macs using an extracted InstallESD (burned to DVD). I'm not a pirate.
 
edry.hilario said:
awesome no word on the imac... im fudged
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I was also waiting for the iMac upgrade. Decided to get the retina MacBook instead. Best thing I ever did. I will get a 27" retina cinema display when they are released eventually to make up for the lost screen real estate.
 
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