That's a particularly poor attempt at online journalism. Making the developer release available through the Mac Store makes a lot of sense - it lets Apple reduc

That's a particularly poor attempt at online journalism. Making the developer release available through the Mac Store makes a lot of sense - it lets Apple reduce the physical packaging and posting costs and given that it's for developers, shouldn't be a problem for them. I would like to add that I bought Windows 7 online from Microsoft and downloaded it, so Apple's hardly doing something new here - MSDN has had similar downloads for years. The disc isn't dead, it's not even sleeping - most people will still want to burn their downloaded copy of a final release OS to disc for reinstall media.