Re: How Apple screws the Maccies

Tim Murray wrote:
Leopard is the 5th paid OS X release:

2001: 10.0 cost $129
2001: 10.1 cost $19.95, free if you picked up a copy at a store.
2002: 10.2 cost $129
2003: 10.3 cost $129
2005: 10.4 cost $129
2007: 10.5 cost $129

That's $665 of the Apple Tax since 2001


Perhaps you have forgotten the simple math I did for you in February, in "Seems like Mac users pay a little less":

Wintrolls belabor the point that Mac users who have chosen to upgrade through all versions have paid more than Windows users. Never mind that fact that Mac OS has seen features go up -- features Windows doesn't even have -- and speed increases as well.

I whipped up a little comparison of plain retail prices. I picked Vista Ultimate because it was the version that has Flip 3D, backup, photo, DVD, movie, and other features that you get with Tiger + iLife. (see http://tinyurl.com/j7vu4)

1) What is wrong with the Backup in Vista Home Premium? Is Ultimate really a requirement? With OS X I had to buy two additional programs (Dot Mac and SuperDuper) to get decent backup capabilities.
2) 90% of MS OS sales are via OEMS, so most people are not paying "$300" for their OS. More like $100 of their system price was for the OS. Those who do upgrade, if they have any brains, would go to newegg.com and buy an OEM copy of Home Premium for about $120 (the same price as their OEM XP SP2).

Steve


Using a date of 01 May for a release of Leopard, if you bought all five Mac OS X from 10.0 to 10.4 and then Leopard, add in three iLifes, you would pay $1020 over 2197 days, or 46.43 cents per day. (If it comes out sooner the cost per day increases.)

If you bought Windows XP Pro for $300 and Windows Visa Ultimate upgrade for $260, add in three Outlooks (because Express doesn't give you what you get in Tiger) you would pay $860 over 1830 days, or 46.99 cents per day. And that doesn't include the aspirin for headaches.

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