AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Kee,

thanks for your apple friendly explanation :) I will try to see it this way
and will explain it to my customers that they will have to wait for my
support  until apple is ready to ship it on CD/stick.
Thanks
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Kee Nethery
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2011 19:34
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: OT: I want to buy Lion
> 
> 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
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