>I bought an ibook in 2002 and each time an upgrade was announced I chose not to purchase the upgrade (none of the advertised features appealed to me). That's

>I bought an ibook in 2002 and each time an upgrade was announced I chose not to purchase the upgrade (none of the advertised features appealed to me). That's not how it works. You either go on with the program or you get left behind. >Eventually I was not able to run safari anymore which I have never forgiven them for. You could run your old Safari just perfect. You just couldn't run the latest versions. Which you kind of caused on yourself. Especially since the OS went to some major transitions to more modern technologies and APIs, which you opted out from. >In my view Apple is charging users for service packs. Sure, because the progress in any other OS has a much higher rate, and those features come for free... (Not to mention that OS X versions cost 1/3 of what Windows versions costed, and now cost 1/8 of that, PLUS you can install the same bought version in multiple machines, so, more like 1/16 of Windows).