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A lot of corporate "philosophies" are actually just business models. There have been times between then and now they charged for the OS. They do charge for othe
by jrochkind1 9mo ago
A lot of corporate "philosophies" are actually just business models. There have been times between then and now they charged for the OS. They do charge for other software. But largely it's been a good business model for them.
- wlesieutre 9mo agoIn the 2000s I remember the OS releases being $130, which (depending on exactly what year you start from) is equivalent to $200-250ish today. Not a yearly cadence because back then they only released a new OS version when it was done and had features worth releasing, but even every two years that wasn't a cheap update.
- jrochkind1 9mo agoi think it was only a few years that lasted, but not positive. There was a brief period where you could actually license MacOS to run on non-Apple hardware, I bet they charged for that too.