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Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-miss-dvds dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple this Summer is expected to release Mac OS X Lion. As opposed to other OS X releases, however, Lion will also be available for purchase via the Mac App Store, further solidifying Apple's efforts to make the Mac App Store an integral part of the Mac user experience." A lot of questions surrounding this related to the ability to make bootable disks. And also, why don't they just use apt-get? I gotta admit: it makes me nervous getting my OS from an App Store — which is strange considering how many kernels I've downloaded, built and booted over the years.

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  1. Re:Bootable by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't be surprised if the "retail" version was just a USB jump drive. The MacBook Air doesn't have an optical drive. I removed the Optical drive from my MacBook Pro so I could have 2 hard drives. Spinning media has an expiration date that is quickly approaching.

  2. Re:Apt-get??? by creepynut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The difference is that package managers like apt, yum, etc let you specify your own sources. Apple's App Stores do not allow this. Without jailbreaking, the iOS devices can only get apps from Apple.

    If I install Ubuntu and want to get the latest and greatest from vendor X they can just give me an installer which adds themselves to my apt sources. I think Adobe does this, but it's been a few years since I've used Linux and my primary desktop.

    I've been primarily an Apple user, but if Mac ever goes closed like iOS does I'll be back on Linux in a split second.

  3. Was there anything in that article... by alispguru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... saying Lion would be available only through the App Store?

    No, there wasn't.

    Stop hyperventiating, folks.

    --

    To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
  4. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end by DJRumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    About inline with the first post, claiming Apple will soon be closed, without the slightest bit of proof to that fact, and it's marked as insightful. /. has become a joke as of late. It's too politicized and no longer interested in fact. The location bug was a good example. It was all doom and gloom, and evil unleashed until it was revealed that Droid did it too. Then it was acceptable but only for a short time that happened to coincide with the length of time that Droid kept the data.

    Although I agree it's definitely a push to promote the app store, there is no indication anywhere that the Mac platform will be locked down, and you won't find a citation anywhere other than hearsay, yet it's immediately modded as it sits now without anything relevant or otherwise to back up such a claim.