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P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 days agoSo when someone buys [anything] with a screen, the OS on the screen if free?
I don’t have a receipt for the OS in my car, so it means I must’ve gotten it for free. Same with the seats, steering wheel, mirrors, buttons, doors, you bang it! But what did I actually pay for then?
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
I never said that. But it does show how this black-and-white all the nothing approach makes no sense.
macOS is free because it’s free.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have a MacBook Pro 15” 2018. I paid around $3K for it new. What is the cost for me to update to macOS 26 Tahoe or the one that comes after it?
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
I’m running Sonoma on a 2016 MacBook Pro. didn’t cost me anything because macOS is free.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How much to upgrade it to Sequoia?
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days ago
The last version of MacOS I used was $130 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
And in my original comment, I said they hadn’t charged for it in about 15 years. And it’s been almost exactly 15 years.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days ago
Just because they stopped selling it doesn’t mean it’s free
Tortellinius@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, and if you got Windows 7 in 2009 with modern hardware then you had up-to-date free Windows since 16 years.