I believe the confusion comes from Apple’s use of the Mac App Store for both software updates and Mac apps and updates, which are technically delivered through two different pipelines.
Here is how it works: you don’t need an Apple ID just to get software updates for installed software, i.e. the operating system, or any Apple applications that are not installed through the Mac App Store. However, you *do* need an Apple ID to download any app or its updates from the Mac App Store, which includes the apps Apple uses to install newer versions of the operating system, any the newest versions of preinstalled apps that now come with Macs. So, in other words: if software updates are simply updates to things already on your system, then no. If updates or apps are from the Mac App Store, including major new releases of Mac OS X or the iLife and iWork suite, then yes. To answer your question, therefore, you do not need an Apple ID to update a Snow Leopard system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
