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1.) Maybe that's a Sydney Store issue? Never experienced anything close to that myself. 2.) Yeah that's dumb. Maybe it's a stocking thing since it's Australia?

1.) Maybe that's a Sydney Store issue? Never experienced anything close to that myself. 2.) Yeah that's dumb. Maybe it's a stocking thing since it's Australia? Never heard of anything like that in the US. 3.) Almost everything on the mac store exists outside of it as well, but I agree it is somewhat designed more for consumers. You could use deployment tools if the source isn't App Store, or a 'family' account that shares purchases among users. Though I agree that's not ideal. Supposedly they're improving management with some new tools similar to how apps can be managed on iOS.

dbg31415 10y ago
Was only in the Sydney store that one time, it took 1.5 hours to get a power cord. The line to get service was running out of the store. This was a few years ago, they had tremendous demand since -- if I recall -- they were the only Apple Store on the continent at the time. The max number of laptops was in Austin, the store in The Domain. Just looked into the Volume Purchase Program as suggested in another post... interesting but doesn't help me 3 years ago when I had the problem. Glad they've made moves to fix it.
- jsjohnst 10y ago
  Apple VPP came out summer of 2011, so it existed 3 years ago.
  - dbg31415 10y ago
    Ok, well then I just didn't know about it then. And for that matter, Apple Support didn't tell me about it when I called them asking for solutions to the issue years ago. What I liked about HN was that it wasn't Reddit. You feel good because you can downvote me? Hooray, downvotes really add to the conversation. Not much point in talking with someone who thinks I'm lying. And I don't give a shit about internet points, so keep downvoting me.
    - jsjohnst 10y ago
      Whoever down voted you probably did so because of your attitude (just my guess, obviously I don't know for sure). I suggest reviewing the guidelines of HN!

dbg31415 10y ago

Was only in the Sydney store that one time, it took 1.5 hours to get a power cord. The line to get service was running out of the store. This was a few years ago, they had tremendous demand since -- if I recall -- they were the only Apple Store on the continent at the time. The max number of laptops was in Austin, the store in The Domain. Just looked into the Volume Purchase Program as suggested in another post... interesting but doesn't help me 3 years ago when I had the problem. Glad they've made moves to fix it.

jsjohnst 10y ago
Apple VPP came out summer of 2011, so it existed 3 years ago.
- dbg31415 10y ago
  Ok, well then I just didn't know about it then. And for that matter, Apple Support didn't tell me about it when I called them asking for solutions to the issue years ago. What I liked about HN was that it wasn't Reddit. You feel good because you can downvote me? Hooray, downvotes really add to the conversation. Not much point in talking with someone who thinks I'm lying. And I don't give a shit about internet points, so keep downvoting me.
  - jsjohnst 10y ago
    Whoever down voted you probably did so because of your attitude (just my guess, obviously I don't know for sure). I suggest reviewing the guidelines of HN!