Apple is starting to make serious gains in the market, so that means they're evil, and as penance, they should just give everything away. Because $20 is too much to pay for a software update.
I guess the value of a software update is what the market will bear. But personally, I hope the market doesn't bear the thought of charging for software updates
for consumer electronics. Rio did think about it at one stage, but fortunately it was abandoned on technical grounds (there was no way of tying a purchased upgrade file to a specific device) without us having to persuade them what a PR disaster it would be.
Are there
any other consumer-electronics companies who charge for software upgrades? Or at least, for ones which the end-user can apply themselves?
Peter
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