Hi Tiemo. You are not alone. A lot of raised eyebrows are only now relaxing after learning of Apple's method of delivery.
If you upgrade to Snow Leopard and then do all the updates, you would see in your Apple Menu under Software Updates a new item called App Store. If you went there and set up a new Apple Store account (or used an existing one) you could search for and purchase Lion. Once you did that, Lion would install on your computer. Some people are surmising that soon Apple will sell Lion on a USB stick (or else how are all the Leopard users going to get it)? I tend to believe these rumors simply because it is unreasonable to require Leopard users to upgrade to Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion (unless they make Snow Leopard upgrade free). Bob On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Probably I should address this to the apple support, but I know here are a > lot of kind guys, willing to help also OT much faster as apple. > > Today I wanted to buy lion to make a dual boot install on my mac, because I > had first customer calls telling me about trouble with my program on lion. > > Because of a slow internet connection I went to the next computer shop and > heard them telling that lion won't be available on CD, only download. Ok I > returned home, heading several nights of download, opened apple.com, opened > the lion announcement and it pointed me first to itunes and then to the > macappstore, which couldn't be opened by my safari. Safari tells me that it > can't open pages, beginning with "macappstore://". So I begun to read and > learned that snow leopard is a requirement to open the macappstore and so to > buy lion!??? (I still have leopard on my mac and didn't wanted to upgrade) > Trying to buy lion in a non apple online shop, they tell me I have to buy it > at apple. > > Never using my mac, beside of testing my programs, the restrictive apple > world is still a big secret for me, even after years. Can anybody shed some > light on how I can buy a full version of lion (to create a dual boot) > without this silly macappstore? Or do I really have to go again to a > computer shop to buy snow leopard, install it to get ready for buying lion? > I think I will never love apple. > > Thanks for any hints > > Tiemo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
