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Apple Ships OS X 10.7 Lion 'Gold Master' For July Push
An anonymous reader writes "Apple released to developers the 'gold master' version of Mac OS 10.7, known as Lion, in a move that positions the company for a July roll-out. 'With Snow Leopard, Apple's previous Mac OS release, the time between going from gold master status to hitting store shelves was approximately two weeks. However that release required Apple to stamp and produce boxed discs to send out to retail stores. Lion will be the first by Apple to be released only through its Mac App Store as a digital download.'"
... aw crap! ... there is no Mac App Store access for my country. Should I do what the local Apple dealer is telling me which is go to a gift card scalper? The one they recommend charges $62.50 for a $50 giftcard. The bastards were happy enough to sell me a Mac but now I'm stuck dealing with scalpers to get OS updates. It was bad enough having to shell out giftcard money for XCode which used to be freely downloadable. I didn't really care that much either that my country has not been 'blessed' with an iOS App Store by saint Steve, I don't buy that much iPhone software anyway but the whole Mac App Store concept simply sucks ass.