This morning’s unveiling of the OS X Lion Developer Preview came with the news that it would only be available one way: through the Mac App Store. In a way, this put to rest speculation that Apple intends to kill off the optical disc. Even though Apple wouldn’t say if they intended to release the final version of Lion to consumers this summer in the same way, it’s pretty clear that they’re going to do just that.However, this important push into the post-optical disc era hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for all so far.
Since the beta version of Lion was first put up for download, angry developers have flooded Apple’s forums because many can’t install the software due to a bug in the distribution method — the Mac App Store.
In the past, when Apple has distributed test software to developers, they’ve done so through a website devoted to that. Once a developer entered their credentials, they could get access to a download link to get the software.
With the new method in place for OS X Lion, all the above has changed. In the new method, Apple had developers log in and get a special redemption code that they were told to use in the Mac App Store to get OS X Lion. However, as expected, once a large rush of developers started hitting the Mac App Store, deployment slowed to a crawl to a point where things were at a total stand-still. In addition to that, once the one-time download starts, Apple apparently assume it’s going to finish and they cut you off from being able to resume or restart a download. We are yet to see how Apple will address this problem.
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