[rtpg]

Kinda funny how this is true but there's a line of Mac OSes that can't connect to the App Store anymore so you can't upgrade the OS without manually downloading it off of an Apple help page.

It's not the end of the world, but I've had to help more than one person walk through this process cuz they're like "I can't update the OS????"

[wpm]

I was a Mac admin when they pushed the change to move Updates into the Mac App Store and I hated it then. It didn't even make sense from an ill-advised "must match iOS" way, since OS updates happened in Settings.app on that platform. Just bone-headed "this will boost eNgAgEmEnT" BS.

[wtallis]

I never got the impression that it was any kind of attempt to match iOS or "boost engagement". It's simply that the Mac App Store was brand new, and it was time to phase out DVDs as the primary distribution mechanism.

They did sell USB flash drives with 10.7, but it didn't make sense for that to be the primary distribution method.

[Gigachad]

It's been out of the App store and in settings for a long time now.

[rconti]

And it's hard to even find the download links, and a lot of them don't work.

[fragmede]

And aren't even hosted by Apple!

[eleveriven]

Yeah, it creates this weird dead zone where the machine is perfectly capable of running the newer OS, but the built-in path to get there is broken

[zombot]

Not being connected to the App Store is a feature, not a bug.