Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

David,
I believe apple offered the upgrades at retail but you had to ask for them and they weren't boxed, just the disks, welcome guide, etc, in a standard apple plastic sleeve with apple part number (that's how mine was, but I didn't get it from apple). I'll dig up my 10.2 stuff and check but I'm fairly certain they were legitimate upgrades for retail sale as I have a 10.4 drop-in DVD upgrade that says right on it "not for sale" and iirc my 10.2 upgrade wasn't labeled that way. I bought my 10.2 upgrade from otherworld computing and as far as I know they don't deal in the "not for sale" less than legal stuff. Maybe apple didn't sell upgrades directly? I got my upgrade long after 10.3 was out so apple didn't offer 10.2 in any way at that time.
Joe Reilly
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Apple didn't sell "Upgrade Only" copies of 10.2 in Retail Boxes, only
full releases (pretty sure).

On Mac OS X v.10.4 & 10.5 "Upgrade Only" DVDs (shipped as a drop-in
kit with systems that were assembled and boxed after the OS releases
but sold afterwards) the installer does a check to verify what the
currently installed OS is before running. This was also the case with
the Mac OS X v.10.1 Upgrade discs handed out for free (or the cost of
shipping and handling), back in 2002.

-DME

On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:

> Jon Glass wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:06 AM, <Reilly001os@aol.com> wrote:
>>> I'm guessing you'll be able to buy an upgrade disk without even
>>> proving you have leopard. IIRC I didn't have to prove I had 10.1
>>> to purchase my 10.2 upgrade disks and that was a retail upgrade I
>>> believe.
>>
>> Most likely true, but I bet it won't install on a non-Leopard hard
>> drive. :-)
>
> True, but I CAN give it as a gift to my nephew or even buy an old used
> MacBook to use it.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney

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