Long history of screwing customers? There has been some of that from Apple over the years. No excuses here.
Charging for OS updates? Are you running Linux or BSD? If not and you are running WINXX, BeOS, Amiga-OS, Solaris, SCO or any other commercial OS then you pay for updates. Companies have to defray the costs of development even if they aren't interested in making a profit. Apple's price/feature ratio for upgrades is extremely high compared to say WINXX. You may be confused by the marketing nonsense that goes on with most other companies. Apple choses to identify its products with point-releases while Microsoft choses to completely rename their product. Sun choses to jump whole version numbers for what should be point-releases. So What. The marketing name for the product is irrelevant. The additional functionality is the only important consideration in justifying the cost of the upgrade.
BTW-iDVD and GarageBand are too large to be downloaded and if they are required for the Suite then the only solution is to distribute everything on CDs/DVDs. The price that Apple is charging is reasonable under the circumstances.
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Inferior? Huh? I'll let that go due to ignorance.
Long history of screwing customers? There has been some of that from Apple over the years. No excuses here.
Charging for OS updates? Are you running Linux or BSD? If not and you are running WINXX, BeOS, Amiga-OS, Solaris, SCO or any other commercial OS then you pay for updates. Companies have to defray the costs of development even if they aren't interested in making a profit. Apple's price/feature ratio for upgrades is extremely high compared to say WINXX. You may be confused by the marketing nonsense that goes on with most other companies. Apple choses to identify its products with point-releases while Microsoft choses to completely rename their product. Sun choses to jump whole version numbers for what should be point-releases. So What. The marketing name for the product is irrelevant. The additional functionality is the only important consideration in justifying the cost of the upgrade.
BTW-iDVD and GarageBand are too large to be downloaded and if they are required for the Suite then the only solution is to distribute everything on CDs/DVDs. The price that Apple is charging is reasonable under the circumstances.