“Apple seems set to kill the optical drive when it releases Mac OS X ‘Lion’ as a downloadable upgrade via the Mac App Store,” Jonny Evans blogs for Computerworld.
“While this begs questions — principally how a Mac user can launch a faulty Mac from disk, without a disk — this isn’t the first time Apple’s changed an industry,” Evans writes.
Full article, in which Evans provides a “short (and necessarily incomplete) list” of industries that Apple’s changed, here.
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RUMOR: Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store – May 4, 2011