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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Apple releases an "upgrade" of their OS every 1-2 years at about $150 a pop.....MS releases a new version of windows every 5-7 years....at $150-200 a pop....so, an apple user will spend well over double to keep up.
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The consumer version of Vista was issued in January 2007, hardly 5-7 years ago.
The bug laden intial version of XP debuted in 2001 and was MS's longest running OS, but with major patches in 2002 (SP1), 2004 (SP2) and 2008 (SP3).
Vista pricing was also a MS headache. Vista Home Basic sold for over $170, while Vista Ultimate was over $330. By comparison, Apple's OS offerings don't come in crippled versions.
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Apple bundles and restricts/locks all of their apps and software and OS to their own hardware and store and devices etc....but they get away with it. I will never understand that.
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It's not that hard to understand. Unlike Microsoft, their business model does not revolve around licensing their OS or software. Go back to the beginning and you'll see that Gates and Allen were more into coding than breadboarding, while Jobs and Wozniak seemingly did both. MS provided software to IBM, then later all the clones; while Apple delivered a unitary product.