The Macalope: Who's driving this bus?
In today’s episode of To Catch a Troll, TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm says:
“Apple Follows In Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Footsteps, Makes OS X Updates Free” (no link but tip o’ the antlers to Varun Pramanik).
Microsoft provided an update to an existing major release. If we are to follow Wilhelm’s logic—the logic of alternate realities—then technically we would have to go back to the first upgrade Ada Lovelace provided for free to fix bugs in her wood- and spring-based computer. (They were actual bugs.)
This is a change for Apple, a company that in the past charged for updates to its desktop operating system.
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