why has snow leopard been removed for download

1-800-MY-APPLE or 1-800-676-2775

Sorry, but Snow Leopard was never available as a download. Lion was, and Lion has been removed from the App Store.

If you need to purchase Snow Leopard you can still purchase a copy from Apple's online store's telesales agents.[1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753) or Customer Service and Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775.] It's also possible that you can purchase the USB Lion Installer Flash Drive.

Kappy, I think you misunderstood wideeyedgirl's point. Up until Mountain Lion was released, Snow Leopard was available from the Apple Store as a physical disc, to allow those who were running OS 10.5 Leopard to upgrade to Snow Leopard, so they could subsequently upgrade to Lion. However, since the release of Mountain Lion, this product is no longer available from the Apple Store. This means that Leopard users who have been holding out now have no legitimate way to upgrade to 10.6, 10.7, or 10.8.

All of my computers are currently running Snow Leopard, so I'm fine, but I'm hoping that for the sake of those upgrade-shy users, Apple will offer some sort of solution, like when they offered Lion on a thumb drive a few months after that OS's original release.

That is not correct. You can purchase Snow Leopard and Lion from the Apple Customer Service numbers posted earlier.

So how did I misunderstand the question?

This means that Leopard users who have been holding out now have no legitimate way to upgrade to 10.6, 10.7, or 10.8.

Except by the method described.

Those users waited too long before updating.

Kappy, you had mentioned that Snow Leopard was never available as a download, but wideeyedgirl never specifically asked for a download. She just wanted to upgrade to Snow Leopard.

But yes, you had answered her question by suggesting that she call Apple directly. This has already been mentioned in other threads.

Klaus, are you suggesting that users should always upgrade right away? Those that followed this and upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion paid $29.99 too much, because you can go straight from 10.6 to 10.8.

And what about those users who have Snow Leopard and want to upgrade, but don't have sufficient hardware to run Mountain Lion? Did they wait too long? Are they also supposed to call Apple directly?

Klaus, are you suggesting that users should always upgrade right away?

What I am suggesting is that users should always try to run the highest version of OS X that their particular Mac can run, not just for the 'extra features' but also for security reasons, i.e. available security updates, which Apple do not supply for outdated versions like Tiger or Leopard.

Are they also supposed to call Apple directly?

If they already have Snow Leopard they have no reason to call Apple!

And what about those users who have Snow Leopard and want to upgrade, but don't have sufficient hardware to run Mountain Lion? Did they wait too long?

That is a question of money. Not all of us can afford, or can see the necessity, of buying the latest MacBook, iMac or whatever. What our Mac did yesterday it will also do tomorrow! The 'built-in obsolescence' of a Mac used to be about 5 years, but is now only about two years or sometimes less. To replace a computer that often is, IMO, overkill, technically speaking, but it may appeal to rich fashion victims! 🙂

Klaus1 wrote:

If they already have Snow Leopard they have no reason to call Apple!

Actually, they do, if they want to upgrade to Lion, since the download is no longer available for purchase from the App Store.

That is a question of money. Not all of us can afford, or can see the necessity, of buying the latest MacBook, iMac or whatever. What our Mac did yesterday it will also do tomorrow! The 'built-in obsolescence' of a Mac used to be about 5 years, but is now only about two years or sometimes less. To replace a computer that often is, IMO, overkill, technically speaking, but it may appeal to rich fashion victims! 🙂

And I agree with that. However, Apple seems to have gone from being very cautious about leaving legacy machines behind (case in point, the transition from OS 9 to OS X, or the transition to Intel processors) to making half of the machines with the current Intel architecture obsolete in less than three years.

Yes - Apple is useless- I can't find anything at their website.

I guess that's why we still need Ebay so we can upgrade Apple's software when we can no longer upgrade the flash player on our perfectly fine old operating systems.

But I'm surprised that Apple has missed this opportunity to double dip on us late- adopters.

Hi Peggy,

This is a very old thread that has nothing to do with Adobe Flash Player.

If you are having problems with Adobe Flash, post a new question. I'm sure your problem can be solved.

You missed Peggy's point, which was completely appropriate. Older versions of Flash have been nuked by Apple or Mozilla. The newer ones won't run on the older OSs. She isn't having a problem with Flash, but getting a safe version of Flash to run on her older OS, which isn't possible. Yes, Adobe stopped providing Flash updates for 10.5, but not everyone can move from 10.5 to 10.6 or higher, or if they want to, they are having difficulty doing so.

Just saying! I'm not having a problem with my flash player-thank you very much. I'm having a problem upgrading to Mountain Lion from Leopard when there's no way to download or purchase the Snow Leopard here. Maybe you still love apple after 27 years but after 18 I'm sick of them. If you don't want this post coming up ibn Google searches then delete it.

Can you call Appe where you are and order the 10.6 disc. In the US, and UK also I believe, it's available by getting Phone Sales at Apple.

Thank you WZZZ! Exactly!

I can buy a disk of Snow Leopard on Ebay and get it just as quickly. But why Apple can''t integrate Snow Leopard into the download-purchase of Mountain Lion is just baffling. The flash upgrade will work fine with the Snow Leopard upgrade.

But why would I want to come back and purchase the Mountain Lion operating system from Apple when they waste my time in running me around looking for this intermediate piece of software? I would put that high on my list of "annoying behaviors."

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I think that exactly the point wideeyedgirl is making- it's stupid customer relations.