I can certainly imagine how you feel!... Could it be that there is a difference in our perceptions of what is a fair price?... I don't mean just a difference between you and I,... i find this genuinely interesting, perhaps there is a difference between UK and US and even between long term Mac users and 'Switchers' (like myself)...
I know that if I were you, and had just bought the product a month before they brought out this upgrade I would be livid and would be back down to the Apple store demanding a free upgrade... Did they tell you that there was probably going to be an upgraded version in a months time?...
I don't think it is a fair comment (not from you, but from the manufacturers) that computers are updated all the time - the fact is that they are canny marketing guru's and create needs in the minds of users where there clearely aren't really needs,... they want us to upgrade and they don't give a monkey's whether or not we need the new features of the product that they are producing...
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Originally Posted by mdnky I just got it Dec 4th of this year (36 days ago)...how do you think I feel? I'm sure someone else got it after me. That's the way the cards lie in the computer world.
It's not really that big of a deal to me. Things get updated all the time and some of those cost a whole lot more than $79 (or 45 GBP, 427 FRF, 128 DEM, 609 SEK, 9000 JPY, 837 MXN, 65 EUR, etc. [not counting fees, taxes, or other charges during conversion]).
If it's worth it to someone to upgrade, they will. If it's not, they won't. I think I'll be happy with the '05 version for a while...I really didn't see anything I "have to have" out of '06 just yet. As it is now, the only programs I use are iTunes (everyday), iPhoto (maybe once a week), and iMovie/iDvd (rarely). iWeb would probably never be used (that's what BBEdit is for, for me at least) and I think I've opened GarageBand once so far. |