> Now that the cat is out of the bag, what people are thinking about Apple > charging the full retail price ($129) to get the 10.2 update?
If you listened to the earning's report yesterday and looked through their financials, you could kind of see it coming. They're doing it for 3 reasons: 1) they're looking at a loss in the current quarter- which means any little bit helps if it will be a small loss. If you believe apple's statistics, there are 2.5 million active OSX users. If 5% of them preorder 10.2, that's ~$16.1 million. Helps the bottom line, when you consider the xserve so far will net them ~20 million. Ties into the above, but none of apple's products are doing that great right now. Xserve hasn't met expectations (4000 sold, not as much as they thought), the educational market is extremely weak for a lot of reasons, the iMacs aren't selling that well and tower sales are way, way down. They'll come back, but innovation takes time and they've painted themselves into a bit of a corner. Any bit of revenue helps right now. > Personally, since Apple is still trying to build momentum for OS X, I think > it's a bad decision... I'd agree with you- I'm in the camp that believes OSX is awesome but that apple shipped a beta quality product. Free updates (or $19.95) until OSX was just plain kick ass would be awesome in terms of customer relations. But because adoption hasn't been huge, the upgrade cost will hopefully be an incentive for those on "marginal" OSX-able machines to upgrade to a new machine, and tap into the users who depend on OSX and need the upgrade bad. The real ones getting screwed are those who bought a new iMac or computer just a bit ago and now have to pay for the upgrade in order to scan. Basically though, apple is doing it because they can. Michael Bryan Bell ------------------ ICQ: 16106263 Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
