03-31-2010, 02:15 PM | #1 |
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Apple to Charge for iPad OS Upgrades After One Freebie
Apple to Charge for iPad OS Upgrades After One Freebie
iPad owners will receive one major OS upgrade for free, but subsequent OS upgrades will cost a fee, according to documentation posted by Apple. Apple on Monday began seeding the Golden Master version of its iPhone OS 3.2 software development kit to developers, which will be the version of the OS that ships on the iPad, according to MacRumors’ Arnold Kim. Apple also posted the iPad licensing agreement to its server. A clause in the agreement reveals that iPad customers will get a free download of the major OS following the one that shipped with the product, and after that, subsequent major OS upgrades will come at a cost: Apple will provide you any iPad OS software updates that it may release from time to time, up to and including the next major iPad OS software release following the version of iPad OS software that originally shipped from Apple on your iPad, for free. For example, if your iPad originally shipped with iPad 3.x software, Apple would provide you with any iPad OS software updates it might release up to and including the iPad 4.x software release. Such updates and releases may not necessarily include all of the new software features that Apple releases for newer iPad models. That implies that for first-generation iPad customers, iPhone OS 4.0 will be a free download, but versions that follow — 5.0, 6.0 and so on, will cost a fee. The iPad’s upgrade policy would fall in the middle of the upgrade policies for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. iPod Touch owners had to pay a $10 fee when they upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0 and iPhone OS 3.0. iPhone customers, however, receive OS upgrades for free. Apple has cited legal accounting requirements when explaining the reasoning behind the iPod Touch’s policy. Source: Wired |
03-31-2010, 02:18 PM | #2 |
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pft. Wait about 1 day after it is released and you will be able to find it online
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03-31-2010, 08:23 PM | #3 |
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It's amazing how you're jumping the gun when Apple hasn't even announced anything official. You're just regurgitating what you read on the rumor mill.
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03-31-2010, 11:51 PM | #4 |
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the wording is from apple legalese that comes with the iphone 3.2 sdk or itunes 9.1.
the problem with reading into legalese is it's required to keep apple's options open. they're thinking about the future when iphone os releases are big enough to mirror mac os 10.x releases. i think that by the time they are thinking of actually doing something like this, the release will be big enough we won't think too much about paying for it. |
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BTW: iPod touch users have had to pay for every upgrade... they didn't even get one freebee. BOb |
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04-02-2010, 02:35 AM | #7 |
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04-02-2010, 04:44 AM | #9 |
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04-02-2010, 04:47 AM | #10 |
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Did I get Windows 7 for free after buying a Vista Machine ? No, so why accuse Apple of doing something wrong ??
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04-02-2010, 06:12 AM | #11 |
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i didn't realize photos had so much to say about the ipad.
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04-02-2010, 09:28 AM | #12 | |
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I'm still on XP but I mostly use ubuntu. I haven't "missed" out on anything since ms simply sells something that tries to do more but requires more memory and processing power. Unless a company can sell benefits of an upgrade then it won't work well. In retrospect windows 95 was huge..98 not so much...me hardly...xp was big mostly because of the file system.. With apple it depends as to what changes they are planning... |
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Remember how the switch from system 9 to OSX was so radical? Well, the passage to the next iPad OS could be radical too, and that alone is worth paying for. |
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04-02-2010, 11:47 AM | #14 |
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But that is the point. You'll get the next MAJOR upgrade for free... That is still more than what other companies are doing...
Thus I don't see the point of criticizing Apple on that decision. That is one freebie that they did not have to give... |
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I see another point that might push Apple to charge for upgrades. The iPad is cheap!
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