I miss when new macOS releases were actually paid and came with actually useful features that worked on pretty much every Macintosh they ran on for the most part.
I get the general point. Apple apps are more often paid and at a higher price generally. But Mac OS has been free forever. And when they did charge it was waaaaay cheaper than Windows
Paying for upgrades was popularised by apps on Apple devices. I remember a time when upgrades were free for life.
That’s true, and I believe it was to lure people from using Windows computer / make the switch. I almost forgot that they charged it at some point though, it brings back memories!
Which Apple apps are paid for? Their entire productivity suite is free, Office 365 is a hefty enough price. You get a free photo editing app, free video editing app and free music production app on every device. Of course there’s a couple of Pro apps for music and video but they are literally for pro users and generally the investment is worth what you can do with them.
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Semi-related but I remember the ancient days when the original iPod touch (not iPhone though) initially had paid OS upgrades - not too crazy for back then when the firmware was often done when the device shipped save for maybe a small patch or three. But there were also larger updates too but not too common.
And then I remember Steve getting up on stage proclaiming that Apple “has found a way!” to make it free.
Especially after Microsoft Updates kept bricking my computer during updates, but wouldnt stop trying to force them, even though every attempt to do so failed FOR THE LAST HALF YEAR. And the only way I could make the update fuck off from attempting to retry waz to turn on and off my computer until it gave up
Windows: It’s stuck again. Will force-reboot corrupt my system?
Rolling-release distro: Cool! New features. …5 programs just stopped working all together.
Point-release distro: Let’s see… under the hood improvements.
Gentoo: I don’t have time for this.
LFS: I never planned to try updating it anyway.My question is: why use Gentoo or LFS?
The first part of this comment triggered some PTSD.
I dunno, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and using mostly flatpacks for my apps have been pretty consistent for me lately, though that’s the first rolling release distro I’ve tried.
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If you use all three long enough, you have the middle reaction to updates for all three.
general reposti, you are an ancient one
Hello there!
Mac user: I’ve never once paid for a system update and am wildly confused by this meme.
And hardware support continues for so long I’ve never had a machine be unable to run a new OS before I already needed a new machine (I used my ‘08 MacBook Pro for a solid 10 years no problem).
I feel like some of y’all have never used an Apple machine before.
They used to charge for OS upgrades about 10 years ago, back when it was still called OSX.
You had to pay for OS X updates before, but they changed that around 15 years ago. I remember paying I think $60 to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
This meme is from an older time when all of this was true.
For all the people here commenting here about macOS updates being free forever, I guess they haven’t really used the OS long enough.
https://www.wired.com/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/
Should the meme be updated before it is eventually reposted? Yes. But should it misinform people? No.
I remember paying for Snow Leopard and being excited about it. Apple is nothing if not great at marketing.
i remember snow leopard being only £25 and being ecstatic
This meme is so out of touch when it comes to macOS.
I don’t think I’ve ever sat there and thought “cool free stuff” when updating. More so annoyed as it reminds me that our systems at work should probably get updated.
I once accidentally installed one on my Mac and I lost my shit.
Like, first it was an emotional reaction of losing my shit, then I actually lost a lot of important shit because there was no way to downgrade, and the latest OS cut off tools from my important tools and apps from being run.
And $99! is referring to $9.3x10^155 here…
Um, actually… it’s
933262154439441526816992388562667004907159682643816214685929638952175999932299156089414639761565182862536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000000000. 🤓Sorry, used to r/unexpectedfactorial being a thing… Forgot this isn’t Reddit anymore.
Sweet I updated and broke my package manager and the system python. I guess I’ll just reimage and start over.
:shrugs:
I don’t have time for that tbh. I go with Mac for my laptop for that reason.
Reminds me of Technology Connections:
“I like to do work on my computer. Not work on my computer. And that’s why I don’t use Linux! Yea, I went there!”
Macs/MacOS has enough problems, no reason to make anything up
Yea, we should be complaining about the bug that has existed in the last three major versions of macOS but isn’t fixed in favor of adding a few new bugs (which also won’t be fixed any time soon).
In my setup I was partially upgraded to GNOME 45 before I can upgrade to Fedora 39 thanks to Flatpak
Words of a madman
