Originally posted by ITR 81
I doubt you will find many OS without them asking you to upgrade this and that.
Almost all known software asks you to upgrade it from time to time.
If your using a computer your using a commercialized product.
If you had it your way Apple wouldn't be able to even put it's www. site on their.
Thats to extreme and would end up hurting Apple then helping it.
Extremism of this type hurts everything and has never lead to anything good.
I think it's a good idea. As it's not spam when you have the products on your computer to begin with. Also I rather cut out the middle man then have to pay extra for a d*mn box and printed materials.
Ok, what part of my post didn't you read?
Oh, I know! It was the part where I said:
Free updates to third party apps I have installed is a different matter-- and a move I would welcome.
None of what I was saying was about updates. It was about mixing sales with updates.
If you'd get off your horse for a second and read my comments rather than blindly taking them as a Luddite assault, you'd realize what I'm arguing is hardly extreme.
I specifically said I thought the www method was the better way to go-- so if I had my way Apple certainly
would have their website.
Yes, my computer is a commercial product, but one that I've paid for running software that I paid for. If the $129 I paid for Panther doesn't cover the cost, raise the price. If there's a demand for ad subsidized software, then by all means provide that as an option-- but don't expect me to buy it.
My sofa is a commercial product but it doesn't interrupt me when I sit down to tell me about the great ottoman I could buy.
Personally I think Quicktime coming up and asking you to buy the pro edition either now or later hurts Apple
and their users. It makes their product a pain to use, likely making it less used, and it tarnishes Apple's reputation for being a company above using annoyance as a sales technique.
Conversely, I think providing an electronic retail outlet would improve Apple's image and give folks without an Apple store or some other equivalent in their geographical vicinity a way of getting more from their Macs. Just do it a different way.
Don't stick it in my face when I'm trying to get work done, or make using the product more of a hassle than it's worth.
I'm tired of being bombarded by advertisements at every turn-- and I don't think there's anything extreme about that view. It think it's the reason people don't "register" the products they buy any more-- they know what happens if they do.
I think periodic OS updates are an important thing to encourage for security reasons if nothing else. Anything that discourages a user from doing so is a bad policy, in my mind. If you look at the problems Windows has, among the biggest is people not patching known vulnerabilities.
This is a discussion of what a string buried in a preference file means, for god's sake. There's a number of ideas floating around about what Apple could do with Software Update and I'm simply making a modest statement about what I would prefer.
As I stated clearly and up front:
There's obviously people here with different opinions on this, and I may be more sensitive to this than most...
I think I can safely count you among those people...
