{"id":519,"date":"2007-01-22T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T07:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/01\/22\/newsletter-373-preview-apple-and-the-199-controversy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:16:46","slug":"newsletter-373-preview-apple-and-the-199-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/01\/newsletter-373-preview-apple-and-the-199-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #373 Preview: Apple and the $1.99 Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a general perception that Apple is greedy, that they will try to take you for every dime you have. Not all at once, of course, but in little increments. You buy a new Mac today, you&#8217;ll have to pay full price for an operating system upgrade every year or two. The Apple digital lifestyle applications are usually upgraded every year as well &#8212; although it appears iLife &#8217;07 is presently missing in action &#8212; and you do not get a discount if you own a previous version.<\/p>\n<p>The very same thing applies to .Mac. You may receive a discount or a rebate at the start when you sign up, but then it&#8217;s $99 a year for the rest of your natural life, or as long as .Mac exists; whichever is first, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, you can&#8217;t say that Microsoft is necessarily generous either. Consider the cost of those Windows Vista upgrades. The end user doesn&#8217;t stand a chance, unless you buy lots and lots of seats for each product, or you&#8217;re a PC maker. Then you pay a fraction of what regular people pay.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Apple has gotten into some trouble with some of you even when they seemed to be doing right by their customers.<\/p>\n<p>Take the Mac OS 10.1 upgrade, for example. 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