OSX

Monday, January 06, 2003

Two Different Opinions on Apple Upgrade Fees Two of the people I really respect with regard to Apple have directly opposing views on the potential new upgrade fees from Apple for upgrades to iApps. John / Inluminent: Again, it's just an idea, but the whole 'pay for upgrades' thing will go over like a lead weight, in my opinion. (We pay more for Apple computer's because the value is there in the built in free applications, not just because they're better computers... It's really hard to compete with some of the $200 Windows and Lindows based PCs that are out there - especially when anyone can install Linux on them or learn to use Windows if they have to). [_Go_] Andy: I applaud Apple for having the huevos to charge for good software - but make it worth my money. One of the huge attractions of Apple is the all-in-one package. They sell great computers that come equipped with everything you need to appear like a media genius. If they want to charge me for their software - that's fine. [_Go_] Since I'm not really a daily user of Mac stuff I'm not really tremendously qualified to comment.  But ... (and you knew I'd toss my .02 in there, didn't you?) I suspect that Mac owners will suck it up and pay.  Mac folk seem to always accept what Apple dishes out.  Me?  I'm still pissed over having to shell out for Jaguar which came out only 2 months after I bought an iBook.  The upgrade feel amounted to like 10% of the hardware cost which really hurt.  So I think that people will pay it but that it won't help customer loyalty at all.  9:18:17 AM  Google It!  comment []

Good OSX Development Tool This sounds cool: Small Screen is a little app for OS X that overlays various screen dimensions on your monitor for development purposes. [_Go_] From Studio ID.  I keep a set of jpgs around for this and I know that others use Bookmarklets for this but this sounds pretty good too. Note: I haven't tried this. 9:07:22 AM  Google It!  comment []