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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, December 18, 2003Hidden costs of Mac ownershipA Newsfactor article discusses the hidden costs of owning a Mac. "Apple users who want to stay current with the latest Mac operating system release have needed to pay $129 on a regular basis. When Apple released version 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, each one of the releases cost $129." Whatever you feel about this, give Microsoft some credit: It has released a slew of free add-ons for Windows XP since that OS first shipped over two years ago. Apple's "free" upgrades (Safari, iLife, etc.), meanwhile, are apparently subsidized by its OS sales, as the company charges for each incremental upgrade, with one coming about every 12 months. Let's be honest here: It's fine--and fair--for Apple to do so. But because Apple's market is so small, and it's OS hasn't until recently compared well to XP, it's been forced to upgrade users on a faster schedule; it must be a nasty treadmill. Microsoft, with hundreds of millions of users on various Windows versions, can move along much more slowly, knowing that people will simply upgrade over time as they replace their PCs. It's an interesting comparison. [ Posted at 10:28 PM | Permalink ]
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