xavdid, 4 months ago

@atpfm hopefully an intersting #askatp for @siracusa: why did apple stop charging for major OSX upgrades?

As far as I could tell, they went from $129 (most cats) to $30 (last couple of cats) down to free (CA locations).

I realize the software landscape was very different then (OSs came on CDs) but a paid upgrade system seems like it would fragment the userbase much more than we have today.