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Apple to Charge for Boot Camp?
An anonymous reader writes "According to a report MacScoop has obtained, Apple will charge current users of Mac OS X Tiger for the final version of Boot Camp that will be released at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard, this Spring."
Damn accountants.
Inconsequential. Dual booting is *so* 2005.
Nobody even turns off their macs anymore, much less boots into a different OS.
Jeez, why so uptight? Is the neck opening on your black turtleneck sweater a couple of sizes too small?
'Cuz, you see, on Windows, it's easier: Every new version is a real new version. A whole number, not some wimpy little decimated digit to the RIGHT of the decimal point. That's why Windows is always TEN TIMES better than the Mac. You don't see us Windows users trying to boot OS X on our computers do you? You guys are just lusers.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I have an idea... Apple could port those APIs to a prior version of the operating system... yeah they would take the older version of the operating system and add all these new APIs to it, burn it to a CD/DVD, put it in a box and make it available to customers. That sounds like a plan.
Exactly. Which is why they will be able to buy the Tiger version for $29. It's quite simple, try to follow.
One should never throw the letter Q into a privet bush.
"This is great. It will encourage more people to move to Leopard at a faster rate.
More revenue for Apple. More profits for Apple. More Macs for us to buy. Yea!"
This is a comment on the site. Most illuminating, people who do not know the difference between their own interests and that of other people.
Hardly know where to begin....
A street-corner hooker is significantly cheaper than a high-class escort.
$2B OR NOT $2B = $FF
But both will give you syphilis if you don't wear a condom...
Hmm, mod me insightful if you find a deep meaningful analogy to the OS debate, hidden in the above. I personally could not, but of course I posted anyway.
You think thats early? Back in '89 I was resizing partitions by manually dragging electrons across the surface of the disk with a tunneling electron scanning microscope and a really small pair of tweezers.
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