No, you’re not studying an previous article. Apple has simply eliminated OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion from its on-line retailer. Each installers remained obtainable in Apple’s on-line retailer for years, even after the corporate ended assist for each variations of the Mac working system.

OS X Lion and Mountain Lion installers

Following the introduction of the Mac App Retailer in 2011, Apple opted to distribute new variations of OS X (as macOS was referred to as on the time) completely on-line. The primary model to be launched on the Mac App Retailer was OS X Lion, which introduced necessary new options akin to multi-touch gestures for trackpads, Launchpad, Mission Management, and full-screen apps.

Nonetheless, as a result of the Mac App Retailer was solely obtainable on Macs working OS X Snow Leopard, those that hadn’t but upgraded from Leopard have been unable to obtain the digital model with out first shopping for Snow Leopard or the thumb drive with the OS X Lion installer, which price $69 versus $29 for the digital model.

Due to this, Apple has began promoting the digital model of OS X Lion in its on-line retailer on the similar worth because the Mac App Retailer model. When OS X Mountain Lion was launched, it was additionally made obtainable by means of the Mac App Retailer and Apple On-line Retailer.

Now, as famous by Mr. Macintosh, each OS X Lion and Mountain Lion are now not obtainable for buy in Apple’s on-line retailer – however customers who nonetheless want this software program for some motive shouldn’t fear. In 2021, Apple made the OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion installers obtainable at no cost on its web site.

The truth is, it was fairly intriguing that even with a free obtain already obtainable, the corporate continued to promote digital copies of those variations of OS X. It’s value noting that neither OS X Lion nor OS X Mountain Lion have been launched on DVD. 10 years in the past, with OS X Mavericks, the Mac App Retailer grew to become the one method to obtain new variations of the Mac working system.

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