Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Oct 25 01:06:49 CDT 2013
Hi Hans: That seems to be the way of things these days. There is simply no way any program of significant size can be built that is not encroaching on someone's patent. If the OS is giving away for free the patent trolls are helpless. I guess the costs of upgrading from XP to another platform has been so prohibitively expensive that it has been one of the major influences causing very slow adoption of recent versions of Windows. For example the price of Windows 7 Pro runs from $75 to over $200, plus shipping and handling. This may not be much for a single product but if you have fifty plus desktops to replace for it starts to add up. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:47:04 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems Well, technically Apple started down this path with iOS a while back, but I think they realized it made sense to do it for the desktop. If you make your users pay for the OS on your machine, then you get fewer users updating to the latest software, which then becomes a pain for software developers and the architects of OS X. It makes sense for their business model and it makes sense in this internet age, where most things come through to us via a browser. The importance of the OS has become very secondary. It's just a user interface to launching a browser :) However, I kinda remember hearing a while back that Apple was forced to charge a small amount for iOS updates previously to avoid legal problems. Perhaps anti-trust issues or maybe patent laws or something like that. Maybe they've figured a way around that. I don't know for certain that this was the case though. - Hans On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi All: > > Whether Apple was the one that ended it or not is debatable but the era of the for profit OS is being squeezed to virtually nothing. > > http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/#! > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com