Well I join the queue of fortune tellers who got surprised! Daniel, I think it's perfectly OK to complain about loss of income (although at $31.99 its not much per copy). I think I mentioned previously that while I can understand the business model, it is undermining the Apple resellers and Channel. That said, I've seen the writing on the wall for a long time and focussed on building services. What else can you do? Complaining won't change it. I do think it would be nice if Apple listened to constructive feedback, but when we are a throopteenth of the market the feedback is a whisper... I have no problem with Lion being on the App Store as long as there is an option for purchasing a physical copy. You're concerned about downloading it in the city!? Try downloading 4GB in the country. Sure the services are improving, but I've had many a time downloading 2GB IOS zipped images from Microsoft and had them fail/time out right at the end. Corrupted zip means download again - another bite out of the download limit. OK if you have a 100GB limit but not many people down here do. Heaven help our loyal Mac customers on Satellite and mobile broadband.
All that aside, looking forward to the upgrade. Cheers, Stuart On 7/06/11 2:53 AM, "Daniel Kerr" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/6/11 1:42 AM, "cm" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> The following is a cut-and-paste from the Mac Rumuours live coverage of the >> WWDC keynote address which I was silly enough to stay up for. The excerpt is >> best read from bottom to top to follow the time sequence. I'll have an >> espresso thanks. :-D >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> 10:38 am Available for everyone else in July >> 10:38 am New dev preview today. >> 10:37 am $29.99 >> 10:37 am Buy once. Install on all macs like all Mac app store apps. >> 10:37 am 4Gb >> 10:37 am Lion available only on Mac App Store > > > One thing that "annoys" me with this,...and this is just my personal > opinion,...but for people that are on "small" downloads are being penalised. > I know some clients that have 2GB limits. > How are they to get a 4GB download?? > And sometimes with it charged at excess rates of 15c/MB that makes the > remainder 2GB of the download costing them about $300 if they don't realise. > As it's purchased through the Mac App Store, then it's not like you "burn it > DVD" for them or something. > > Maybe I'm missing something here, and more info will become available later. > Sure, maybe for the US where download limits are large and internet is > cheap. But unfortunately we still have some low limits here in Australia. > > Again, maybe I'm missing something, or I'm not "keeping up with the times" > but I just think there should be a couple of options. For those that don't > realise or unsure about it, doesn't it leave them out of the loop for Lion? > > I suppose the other problem I see with this, is if you have to download it > is that some clients don't want to do that. They feel more comfortable with > hiring someone to come out and do it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to > sound like I'm complaining about a loss of income or anything. I just know > that for some, they may not feel comfortable in downloading and installing. > They prefer to call me out to do it. I can't now go out and say,..oh, well I > have to sit here for a couple of hours while this downloads. > Sure I could say,..well start it downloading and call me when it's finished > if you have any problems. > I'm guessing that once it's downloaded you can burn the dmg file to install > it, but then you wouldn't be able to do that as a) it wouldn't have been > paid for, for another client and b) wont' give correct "download figures" to > Apple. > Maybe there will be a "pay but don't download" option. > > I guess time will tell. > Just a couple of things that sprung to mind when I saw it. I mentioned it to > another friend of mine who was online at the time and they said, "oh, guess > I'll have to watch my downloads for that month as I won't have much of my > allowance". So really, they are sort of being penalised in a way. > But, as mentioned, if it can be paid for and not downloaded, that may be a > work around. :o) > > Oh well,...Im' sure as more info comes out we'll know. :o) > On that note,..time for some sleep I think,..the iCloud info is still > scrolling through MacRumors,...but I'll read the rest in the morning. Have > to be up in 3 hours,..sigh. > > Some of the iCloud stuff sounds cool. :o) > > Kind regards > Daniel > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T> 08 9842 9660 F> 08 9842 9664 E> [email protected] BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T> 08 9721 9660 F> 08 9842 9664 P PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: DISCLAIMER This correspondence is for the named person's use only. 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