So Mac OS X Lion goes on sale tonight, but before you suck down 3.6GB, consider doing it off-peak. And if you’re on iiNet — heads up that the Mac App Store is outside the Free Zone. So unlike iTunes songs and movies, Mac Apps (and Lion) count towards your quota. More at Lifehacker: Get Mac OS X Lion Without Exceeding Your Download Cap.
blueevo
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:18 PMWhy the attack on iiNet? Most ISPs dont include traffic to the app store. I figured that would be common knowledge.
Danny Allen
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:21 PMNo attack, purely a PSA.
Jacob
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:54 PMI think you’ll find the reason behind mentioning iiNet is because iiNet has unmetered access to iTunes….. I think you’ll find that gizmodo was simply pointing out that those who are of the assumption they will be able to download it unmetered that they should think twice so they don’t blow their quota….
Jacob
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:58 PMHence “And if you’re on iiNet — heads up that the Mac App Store is outside the Free Zone”
and “Did You Know: iiNet Free Zone Doesn’t Include The Mac App Store”
Dave
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:27 PMSeriously it’s not that expensive to have a 50 or 100 GB download limit so 4GB shouldn’t hurt that much. However I give Apple a HUGE thumbs down for not having a DVD or USB install option. Yeah they’ll let ya get it in there stores but what about all of us country bumpkins who are 3 + hours from them.
Yagan Kiely
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6:30 PMPodcasts don’t count towards the Freezone either.
Ben T
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:26 PMI’ve been downloading Lion Developer Previews from the App Store and it’s definitely been counting to my free zone. Someone might want to double check this.
Chris
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 9:22 PMYou’ll find that since it’s all grabbed from an Akamai server some data is counted as freezone sometimes, and not so other times
The other day I downloaded a few gig of mac apps & updates and it was all freezone too, it’s luck of the draw but you can’t count on it always happening and iiNet reps have stated so on Whirlpool
JimmyP
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:36 PMTonight? We know it’s tonight? I was expecting in the morning. Has Apple made a time related announcement?
John
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 7:39 PMiPhone software updates don’t count either…
Jess
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:34 AMI downloaded OS X this morning and it counted towards my freezone!!!!
Jonathan
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 2:46 PMYeah, I can also confirm that downloading Lion last night (around midnight, well before my offpeak hours start at 2am) came out of my Freezone on iiNet. Looks like you might be wrong on this one Giz.
Craig
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:01 PMIt was in my Freezone too
Greg
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:13 AMFreezone for me too.
Axel
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 9:30 AMThis article is completely wrong. I stayed up this morning, not even knowing that downloading Lion would count towards my
Freezone. If I only knew, I would’ve downloaded it the day it came out during peak hours and not off peak.
Rupert
Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 1:12 PMFreezone for me too
Melzz
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:21 AMDownloading Lion was counted towards my Freezone, Also downloaded xcode and it went into the freezone.