The world's most advanced desktop
operating system advances even further.Coming in July to the Mac App Store for just $29.99
Aperture is $79 vs. Photoshop ($$$)
Now OSX is only $29 vs. Windows ($$$)
It's actually cheaper to use Apple now.
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It's actually cheaper to use Apple now.
No, it isn't.
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Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!
OSX X SP1 29 $ ? Disaster
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Also Aperture and Photoshop are very different things.
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2 hours ago, beerinbelgi​um wrote
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Aperture is $79 vs. Photoshop ($$$)
Now OSX is only $29 vs. Windows ($$$)
It's actually cheaper to use Apple now.
As long as you already own a Mac that can run it, yes.
Also nice that you can install it on any machine registered to you.
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Do you think the low price might have something to do with this?
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@BitFlipper: With what? I see very little fluctuation in those numbers, and what little is there seems to be due to the uptake of mobile devices, not with the price of OSX.
I think the prices are a little high for Windows, but not that bad. Apple can sell the OS so cheaply because they make the money mostly from the hardware, something Microsoft can't do. My only real complaint with Windows is the number of SKUs. There should be one, maybe two SKUs. I also think there should be permenant "family packs". Sell it for maybe $50 more and license it for up to 5 computers in the home.
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The problem is that they're such different business models. If MS makes one SKU for Windows, they would basically have to keep that price at the Home Premium version or risk losing the consumer sales. That would result in in significant revenue losses from the many enterprise customers and OEM's that go to professional/ultimate/enterprise.
To be fair to MS, while you can no doubt obtain a product chart showing a dizzying array of Windows versions, for Windows7 consumers there were basically two choices - Home, and Business, with Home now not being nearly as neutered as Vista home was (the move to higher versions being supersets or the versions before it was finally done, well overdue).
It will be interesting to see if they revise the Starter versions with Windows 8 - netbooks in late 2012 will be quite capable machines compared to when they first hit the market. They certainly can't ship it without Aero or the new Start Menu in that case, it's such a significant part of the experience.
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Mmm. They put the 'recovery disk' on hidden disk partition. I think there are lots of cases where that won't work.
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