For most of us, OS X Lion’s first minor patch to 10.7.1 is old news after Apple pushed it out last week. The rest of you may have wondered if and when Apple would get around to updating the version posted on the Mac App Store -- but worry no more, Cupertino has taken care of that.
MacRumors is reporting that a full week after releasing OS X Lion 10.7.1 via Software Update, Apple has finally pushed the update onto the Mac App Store as well, for both OS X Lion as well as OS X Lion Server. What does that mean to you, the hipster early adopter who’s already updated? Not much.
However, for the rest of you yet to install OS X Lion in the first place -- or others about to install it on a second or third computer -- this means that you won’t have to go through the taxing emotional process of installing OS X Lion and then running Software Update to patch the system to 10.7.1, a decidedly very minor update that doesn’t appear to have addressed many issues for anyone in the first place.
We’re not sure exactly why Apple updated the Mac App Store version a week late (insert your own “stuck in approval limbo” jokes here), but the move does put a bit of spotlight on what’s sure to be a dilemma in the future -- shouldn’t OS X Lion get updated via the Mac App Store and not Software Update, like all other apps sold through its virtual storefront?
While longtime Mac users are accustomed to checking for patches via Software Update, a new generation of Mac App Store users will be trained to look for them in a different place. We certainly don’t have an answer to that question or how Apple may handle it in the future, but feel free to debate the subject in the comments if you’d like.
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