Lion really only available via download from Mac App Store?

[rjmacs]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Gareth]
[quote=M A V I C]
It is tied to the same machines as iTunes authorizations.

No, it is not. Mac App Store auths are separate from iTunes auths for content.
A news report I read earlier today on one Mac site said Lion will be tied to iTunes auths.
That would be a lot of weird overhead for Apple, since the ordering and delivery would be through the App Store, not iTunes, which are - as Gareth noted - separate.

Not having seen the article you did, i suspect that the author didn't appreciate that App Store and iTunes account authorizations are different.

[decay]

aka "how to keep Lion off hackintoshes"

[deckeda]

decay wrote:
aka "how to keep Lion off hackintoshes"

For awhile.

Hackintoshes tend to be a 2nd or 3rd OS X machine, and someone will further streamline the function of taking a Mac's HD and tweaking that install for a PC. But yeah, it limits flexibility.

[pqrst]

Is it just my imagination or does mean that you have to buy a copy of Lion for each mac? No family five pack anymore? If so, then this seems a bit like the registration requirements of windows.

[decay]

pqrst wrote:
Is it just my imagination or does mean that you have to buy a copy of Lion for each mac? No family five pack anymore? If so, then this seems a bit like the registration requirements of windows.

no, you buy once and install on all your personal macs.