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I think culture does play a part, and reasonable pricing. It's easy for someone to justify pirating windows, especially if it's not their main operating system
by robryan 16y ago
I think culture does play a part, and reasonable pricing. It's easy for someone to justify pirating windows, especially if it's not their main operating system compared with OSX which is at a price point that no one but a broke teenager would really consider pirating it.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoPlease correct me if I'm wrong, I may well be on this - approx Amazon prices. Win 7 is from about £75 (home/student); Mac OS X 10.6 is from about £25. With Windows you get all the upgrades free until the next major release. With Mac OS X you pay for point releases and that is the price we see here? I note that Amazon (UK) has OS X 10.5 priced at c.£110. From Apple Computer's website, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1338 http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1338: Reference releases; update vs. upgrade Mac OS X v10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 themselves are not downloadable updates, they are reference releases, also called upgrades. This means, for example, you can't upgrade from Mac OS X v10.3 to Mac OS X v10.5 via a downloadable installer. Reference releases are available from the Apple Store online, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Distributors (AAD).