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> The cost is just baked into the margin on their hardware. Oh no! Wait, why is this somehow a concern? You buy a Mac and get an OS with years worth of free up
by giantrobot 2y ago
> The cost is just baked into the margin on their hardware.
Oh no! Wait, why is this somehow a concern? You buy a Mac and get an OS with years worth of free updates to that OS and additional years of security updates to the OS. Where's the problem?
- nightski 2y agoThere's no problem. It's just the same model as Microsoft with the only difference that Microsoft works with an ecosystem of hardware manufacturers vs. being the sole one.
- wongarsu 2y agoIf I buy a laptop from Dell the cost of Windows is also baked into their margin. And you equally get years worth of free updates. The point is that "MacOS is free, Windows costs money" is a bad comparison both from the end-user PoV and the actual economics of what's happening.