Apple dealers hit with Lion bar Apple is bypassing the channel to sell the forthcoming Lion OS directly to biz customers in yet another blow to its beleaguered partner base, resellers have claimed. Corporate enterprises and education users will be able to purchase a minimum of 20 volume licenses for Lion directly at the Mac App Store via iTunes, in a move …
Countries like the Philippines only have RESELLERS. There's no official apple stores. There's the "A Store" which is a reseller.
Most Filipinos don't have credit cards, yes - even those who own a mac. So they couldn't purchase online even if they wanted to.
So if they can't buy it at the store, the only solution is to download a pirate copy.
The chances are high that they'd just download a pirate copy anyway, but you're giving them an excuse when they have no other choice.
What are you talking about, we have a huge thriving Mac community in the Philippines.
http://www.philmug.ph
Mac users from the Philippines can easily buy stuff from the Apps store and iTunes no problem. If you don't have a credit card, it is so easy to get one. Like the US, Philippine banks are actually begging you to sign up for their service - that is if you have the cash or business (or Job) to qualify.
If you can't qualify for a credit card service I think you have more pressing financial worries then buying software from Apple. (Let me guess, you used you whole life savings when buying your Macbook? Bad move bro.)
I think your wit has been fucked!
It's not a service pack.
Just because it's downloadable don't equate it with one of Big M's major bug fixes.
We more perceptive citizens have a major upgrade to the next point version of the OS.
It costs £20 or $29 to download for up to five computers.
Perhaps you should bin your dinosaur and join the 21st century!
Or are you just jealous?
What the fuck does 'partner' mean? The modern business-school meaning seems to be either 'supplier' or 'customer' depending who you're talking to. This is only sometimes confusing, but (IMO) always bloody annoying.
It even spreads to other languages. Not 50m from my flat there's a massive billboard advertisement which says (in Hungarian) "Does your bank treat you like a partner?" Uh, no - my bank treats me like a customer. I would be very pleased if they sent me a cheque every year saying "here is your share of our profits" but they don't, and I'm pretty sure the advertising bank doesn't either.
You might feel a nice warm glow inside when Steve Jobs calls you an Apple partner, but if you think he sees you any differently than any other customer, you're deceiving yourself. But don't worry - he loves you for it.
To retailers, whose knowledge extends to “I think you can find the Apple stuff on the bottom rack over there.”
We have a little saying: “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” If the retailers were helping users with installation, or advertising the new features so shoppers could decide whether they wanted to bother, or providing much of ANY marketing services at all, you could make an argument for pricing the disks an extra $50 higher to cover their efforts and a fair profit.
They used to do that. But it's been a long time since *I* have seen much of any reason to pay extra to somebody who can't find the power switch on a demo machine.
I weep for this the same way that I weep for the days when people had whips to make the horses trot faster.
So now we have to manage multiple AppleIDs in the office if we want to install Lion?
Fuck me, but this is getting to be a headache. I have more than 5 macs at home never mind at work - I'd hate to be in a company with dozens of these things.
Sure I'll admit that £20 is a great price point, and hey it fits 5 macs, but that comes with the caveat of no install disk. Frankly I'd be happier with the option to pay £75 for the disk. But this isn't about ease of use or the fabled "experience selling", it's about adding more walls to the garden, and I'm actually starting to feel a little claustrophobic.
Apple need to be a lot more upfront with information, because the lack of it - and explanations as to their thinking going forward - is putting me off.
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