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Actually, they've been including Xcode with the OS and giving away minor updates for free. History of Xcode, every new major version was released with an OS and

by ptomato 16y ago

Actually, they've been including Xcode with the OS and giving away minor updates for free. History of Xcode, every new major version was released with an OS and would not run on the previous versions of Mac OS X. See also: iPod Touch until recently. Major updates cost some nominal amount of money, minor updates are free.

__david__ 16y ago
Yeah, which I think invalidates your accounting hypothesis. If accounting is the reason for the cost then they would have already been charging for it.
- ptomato 16y ago
  No, because they were distributing it as part of the operating system, which they sold.