Apple宣布它将允许客户下载其Apple商店的下一个Mac OS X，代码为“Lion”的Mac OS X.此举是由于客户担心带宽限制或帽子将限制通过Apple Mac商店下载狮子的能力。
Apple的移动强调了几年前Nemertes的预测如何，带宽限制将扼杀互联网创新即可通过。In that study, we concluded that if current trends were to continue, demand would outstrip capacity before 2012, we’re now seeing the direct impact of failure to upgrade access speeds, especially in rural areas of the US, coupled with bandwidth caps increasingly instituted by service providers on their overburdened networks. The rapid rise of mobile platforms such as tablets and smartphones, coupled with new services such as Hulu and NetFlix, are serving to exacerbate the bandwidth constraints that we predicted.
接入带宽约束将以各种方式影响其计划，包括限制利用基于云的服务的能力，特别是对于远程/移动/远程工作员工，以及使用互联网用于应用程序访问的员工的能力的限制包括视频和备份的服务。IT架构师旨在减少用于分布式应用程序的带宽需求的有线和无线的应用程序交付优化平台更大的利益。