Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29

Post by jimbokun » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 1:58 AM UTC

chrisjsmith wrote: post #113

mgkimsal wrote: post #106

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They didn't try with me. They didn't try with any of my friends. I think they're trying with the wrong crowd. Interesting side thought here (at least to me). MS has traditionally done very well selling to the larger enterprise market. As the headcount in those orgs go down, will MS' influence drop? Newer people coming in will probably have come from smaller orgs where MS is less prevalent, and when there's overall fe…

They probably are - I agree. They should make personal licenses cheap and ubiquitous therefore creating mindset. Most smaller orgs just buy machines and live with what is on them these days and only tech-focused companies seem to care what they run. The entire NHS (UK's free health system) seems to run on Windows 2000 and XP quite happily still because that's what the machines came with at the time.

Post by jsz0 » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 2:02 AM UTC

mikeleeorg wrote: post #131

recoiledsnake wrote: post #54

>This isn’t actually the first time Apple has offered an OS upgrade at a steep discount compared to its Windows rival (which typically runs over $100) — Snow Leopard made its debut at $29. A pretty flawed apples to oranges comparison. OS X is more similar to bios updates... you buy the hardware, the vendor makes money off it and gives away the software. With Microsoft, you're paying the OEM money for the hardware(wit…

I have 10.5 and held off on purchasing 10.6 because I was waiting for 10.7. It bums me out that now I'll need to purchase both 10.6 and 10.7, regardless of how much the Windows upgrades cost. Judging from some of the tweets & comments I'm seeing elsewhere, a lot of other consumers are bummed too.

Post by angrycoder » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 2:32 AM UTC

chrisjsmith wrote: post #102

recoiledsnake wrote: post #46

Not sure why below comment is dead. The account seems ok and not hell banned. Was it flagged to death? If so, anyone who flagged it,why? dsplittgerber 24 minutes ago | link [dead] Anyone else surprised by how many hugely popular apps Apple is going to kill with new Lion/iOS? Instapaper built-into Safari now, all kinds of messanger apps killed by iMessage, some of those photo apps going down the drain as well, Reminde…

That is sharecropping. If you play on another corporation's turf, expect this to happen and expect your income to be destroyed with zero days notice.

Post by decadentcactus » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 2:58 AM UTC

ejdyksen wrote: post #157

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Speaking from Australia, I'll assume that at least iinet will have it on their cap-less servers to download. For example most major Steam games are and don't count against the cap.

Interesting...in the case of Steam, does the ISP run that server, or do they just whitelist the Steam server IP?

Post by thurn » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 3:48 AM UTC

ary wrote: post #186

After all the talk about delta updates in the keynote I had hoped that Time Machine would be doing file deltas now. A read through the Lion features page doesn't turn anything up. Anyone know?