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Statick@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoDo you also think the engine that comes with your car is free because the manufacturer doesn’t sell it as a separate item and it’s not listed on the receipt?
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t see how cars and engines have anything to do with the fact that macOS is free.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
If including it with a paid product has a cost for the manufacturer, then you did pay for it as a part of the price of the product which you did pay for.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
That’s a guess, not evidence of your claim.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Go take an economics class
WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The OS is a component of the whole product by Apple’s own reporting and marketing material. If you bought a Macbook directly from Apple and it came without MacOS preinstalled, would you consider that a fulfilled transaction?
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
None of this means that macOS costs money. You’re spinning a pretty crazy fantasy here to try to disapprove the fact that macOS is free.
“It costs money because something else costs money!” is a nonsense absurd argument
WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Alright Theseus, how many components of a macbook need to be removed until you’re no longer buying a macbook? Would you be satisfied receiving an empty box since the monitor, CPU, motherboard etc. are not individually itemised on your receipt for a MacBook?
enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
again, if you think osx is free you are deeply, cripplingly ignorant of how Apple makes money.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
What a fascinating hallucination you’ve had.
But the fact remains that macOS is free. Wanna approve me wrong? Show me a receipt where someone paid for it in the last 15 years.
You really should talk to someone about your Apple derangement disorder.