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Amazon Offers Discounted Mac OS X 10.2
WCityMike writes "Apple's decision to offer no upgrade fee to existing Mac OS X users caused a great deal of unrest amidst Macintosh users, but Amazon may have made the argument a bit moot by offering a $50 mail-in rebate, thus bringing the price down to $79 for all users. Check out their listing for 10.2, or the mail-in rebate form. I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?"
Not only do you have to feed your personal info to Amazon by placing the order, but to get your rebate, you need to feed rebate.com as well.
Even if you use a throwaway email address and a 555-1212 phone number, that'll still probably mean more junk snailmail coming to my house.
An aside: I was at Sam's Club the other day and was told that I had to get an updated membership card. When the girl was doublechecking my info, she asked, "I have '555-1212' as your current phone number. Is that right?" I said yes and she just continued on. I'm debating on whether she knew what the number was or not.
OS X 10.0 came out about 17 months ago. $130 every 18 months doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Interesting.
It's also worth noting the Microsoft Operating Systems rate #5, #8, #9, and #17.
If you're interested, here's the breakdown:
5. Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers
8. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade
9. Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade
17. Microsoft Office XP Professional Upgrade
It's too bad they don't release actual numbers. I wonder if Jaguar beats all of those combined?
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