OT: I want to buy Lion

[Kee Nethery]

The Mac App Store is kind of a Snow Leopard thing. Apple decided to distribute Lion initially via the Mac App Store so ... if you do not have Snow Leopard installed, you cannot buy and install it.

It is my understanding that there will be a version of Lion that comes on physical media that you will be able to buy from Apple. Once it was done and ready to ship, it took them a couple of minutes to start shipping Lion via the Mac App Store. It will take several weeks to create enough physical media to allow people to buy it in an Apple store.

What you are seeing is not that they are making you jump through hoops to buy it. Instead what you are seeing is that under certain circumstances you were able to buy it a couple of minutes after it was declared done and final. In the past everyone would have to wait several weeks for physical distribution. 

Because you do not have the specific setup for immediate distribution, you'll have to wait for the physical media distribution.

Kee Nethery