Apple Retail Stores to Use Local Mac Pro Servers to Distribute Lion to Customers?

I'm thinking of going to my local Apple Store just to use the maxed out Mac Pros :D

In my opinion, this is a meagre solution for a problem that we should not have in the first place. Just offer copies on DVDs and let customers decide what works out for them. They should be encouraged to buy Lion via the App Store, not forced.

Conversation at Apple, "So rather than distrubute Lion on DVD we are going to spend $3 million on over 300 maxed out Mac Pros.":confused:

Wait is this like Windows 7 Home Premium Business, and Ultimate :confused: :confused: :confused:

What do "Normal, Pro, and Joint Venture" mean?

Anyone know?

No, all it means that the hard drives come with demo stuff in addition to Lion, such as iPhoto libraries, Apps, and the "Screen Saver" demo that Apple has on their store machines that show demos of stuff.

On a MacBook Air you won't expect to see a demo of Photoshop, but rather iPhoto. And on a Mac Pro you'd probably want to see demos os hardcore apps, not just photos of dogs and stuff.

A nice gesture, but a patch work solution at best. Just sell a 39.99 dvd

Apple removed the Floppy drive and people complained but today we are glad they did. Apple is now moving all their software to the App Store. And people are complaining. But I'm sure in a few years we'll all look back and be glad Apple made this move.

Personally I'm glad Apple made the move. Even with my POS internet.

1. It's very green. No world resources and extra cost wasted on the media and packaging.
2. Less chance of a day zero update needed. Cause the time between release version shipped and ready for sale is now zero.
3. Apple does not have to worry about shipping. So it can be released when it's ready and not have to worry about shipping all the discs.
4. You as a consumer don't have to hang around for the postman or go to a store to get Lion. Just start the download, then live your normal life and come back a few hours or maybe closer to a day later and it'll be done.
Cheaper cost for the consumer.
5. No chance of people getting the release version of the OS early. Cause there's no physical shipments to hijack and store staff members can't take their copy early.
6. The release time can be any time in the day now. Not when the Store opens up. Also you can start the download when you want to. Not be constricted by Store or postman hours.
7. No need for an external dvd drive if you own a MBA.
8. Getting the digital distribution channel working correctly now. So in the future when that's all there is, they will have it working perfectly. Unlike the competition.

And probably more which I can't think of now. But I made my point. Even with a POS net connection this new disc-less OS is a very good idea.

A nice gesture, but a patch work solution at best. Just sell a 39.99 dvd

Apple removed the Floppy drive and people complained but today we are glad they did. Apple is now moving all their software to the App Store. And people are complaining. But I'm sure in a few years we'll all look back and be glad Apple made this move.

Personally I'm glad Apple made the move. Even with my POS internet.

1. It's very green. No world resources and extra cost wasted on the media and packaging.
2. Less chance of a day zero update needed. Cause the time between release version shipped and ready for sale is now zero.
3. Apple does not have to worry about shipping. So it can be released when it's ready and not have to worry about shipping all the discs.
4. You as a consumer don't have to hang around for the postman or go to a store to get Lion. Just start the download, then live your normal life and come back a few hours or maybe closer to a day later and it'll be done.
Cheaper cost for the consumer.
5. No chance of people getting the release version of the OS early. Cause there's no physical shipments to hijack and store staff members can't take their copy early.
6. The release time can be any time in the day now. Not when the Store opens up. Also you can start the download when you want to. Not be constricted by Store or postman hours.
7. No need for an external dvd drive if you own a MBA.
8. Getting the digital distribution channel working correctly now. So in the future when that's all there is, they will have it working perfectly. Unlike the competition.

And probably more which I can't think of now. But I made my point. Even with a POS net connection this new disc-less OS is a very good idea.

Just adding to that, there isn't much competition for internet here in Canada, thus our bandwidth caps and slower speeds (comparing to Norway they're about 10x slower). This would give the companies just more reason to increase the bandwidth caps & speeds in the future, distributing more and more software through the Mac App Store

I dont see why Apple can't just have lion on their store units that allows a straight copy to USB device. Why make each user download it separately, that sounds idiotic. Im no programmer but I'm sure theres a way you could pay, copy to USB and have it registered to your app store account.

Come on keep the line moving Apple :)

They are offering something better, instead of having line ups and people needing to have their key ready and the problems that could happen with not enough space etc. Your last line was funny, because your idea would cause more line ups.

You simply connect to Apply Network and download it in minutes, i personally think its so much better

I see a flash drive in the future

Considering they are probably internal assets, its probably much cheaper than that. Not to mention that DVD production is not a Zero Cost venture.

Given the choice, I would prefer a flashdrive vs a DVD and either over my meager 2.5 mb/s connection, and Apple could crank those out at low cost, albeit they would be a bit more than a DVD.

Here' hoping.

I'll bet you a buck Apple offers slightly higher priced DVD's. I further suspect they will wait for 10.7.1 to address at least one layer of bug fixes before they add physical distribution to the mix. I feel based on public feedback to date some users actually "need" physical distribution and I suspect Apple knows that and wants to wait until a known good master exists for that.

Rocketman

That would make sense. The people who don't upgrade their OS until a year after it comes out aught to get 10.7.3 on their install disk or so (it seems like it takes Apple that many versions to actually iron out every bug.)