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 accessible in Apple’s on-line retailer for years, even after the corporate ended help 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) solely on-line. The primary model to be launched on the Mac App Retailer was OS X Lion, which introduced essential new options comparable to multi-touch gestures for trackpads, Launchpad, Mission Management, and full-screen apps.

Nevertheless, as a result of the Mac App Retailer was solely accessible 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 accessible by way 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 accessible for buy in Apple’s on-line retailer – however customers who nonetheless want this software program for some purpose shouldn’t fear. In 2021, Apple made the OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion installers accessible at no cost on its web site.

Actually, it was fairly intriguing that even with a free obtain already accessible, 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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