10.8 via Up to Date Program

Yesterday I applied for my free Mountain Lion 10.8 upgrades for my new
MacBook Airs:

  https://uptodate.apple.com/UtdPrepareAction?program=Mountain%20Lion&locale=en_us

So far, no response from Apple.

Has anyone received their code yet?

  - nello
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Nello Lucchesi <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Yesterday I applied for my free Mountain Lion 10.8 upgrades [snip]
> So far, no response from Apple.
>
> Has anyone received their code yet?

I waited and waited and waited. Then I was looking in the App Store
for something else and noticed Mountain Lion had a Download button
with no price attached.

Downloaded, installed. Still haven't had any official notice from Apple.

Check the App Store.

Cheers,

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That's interesting it has a price attached in my App Store of $20.99
(we are in Australia - sometimes makes a difference)
Narrell

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Ars Technica (and Apple) say that Apple will send a code to use on the store:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/bought-a-mac-recently-get-your-free-copy-of-mountain-lion/

"Once you submit your claim and Apple verifies you in the system, Apple will send you a download code via e-mail where you can grab Mountain Lion from the App Store—no purchase required."

Just wondering if anyone else received their code.

 - nello
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Nello Lucchesi <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone else received their code.

My point was that I submitted a claim but did not receive a code by
email or any other way. OTOH the App Store simply offered a Download
button where I'm pretty sure it had showed a price earlier in the day.
By then I was willing to just pay up.

My claim was confusing as clicking through from the NZ Store in one
case took me to the Australian claim page. Later in the day I tried a
different link that seemed to take me to an NZ claim page.

It gets extra confusing because Apple in NZ is tied to Apple Australia.

It occurs to me as I write this that since I'd been using the beta
*perhaps* this was what gave me the download and perhaps I haven't
actually installed the release version yet.

Yet when I'd downloaded the beta I didn't just get it from the Store.

Now I'm confused…

Cheers,

Miraz

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On 26 Jul 2012, at 17:19 , Nello Lucchesi <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Ars Technica (and Apple) say that Apple will send a code to use on the store:

One person I talked to have said that APple told them it might be “up to 72 hours” before they got their download code.

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On 26 Jul 2012, at 18:34 , Miraz Jordan <[hidden email]> wrote:
> It occurs to me as I write this that since I'd been using the beta
> *perhaps* this was what gave me the download and perhaps I haven't
> actually installed the release version yet.

If you have the GM then the release version is identical. No need to download anything.

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, LuKreme <[hidden email]> wrote:
> One person I talked to have said that APple told them it might be “up to 72 hours” before they got their download code.

This morning I've received 2 emails from Apple. One has a PDF
attachment, the other a password to open the attachment.

Too busy watching Olympic Opening ceremonies to delve into the emails yet.

Cheers,

Miraz

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