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The Mac App Store Is Now Open (Even The Lebanese Benefit)

January 6, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

My favorite part of this is the fact that I can now use my Lebanese credit card to buy any Mac software. For too long, Paypal — a service that doesn’t believe in a country called Lebanon — was the only way to pay for good indie software. We had to resort to all kinds of Laborious workarounds that involved faxing a copy of your passport to financial-services websites. Those days are now hopefully over.