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[–] cephus@lemmy.world 293 points 8 months ago (67 children)

Would be funny if it was true...but you never pay for OS updates on Mac.

[–] smolyeet@lemmy.world 145 points 8 months ago (5 children)

lol i was about to say. Updates have been free since what , Lion? Lemmy is just hurr durr non Linux operating systems bad πŸ™„

[–] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was Lion and even before then it was something like $35 to upgrade which was less than the cost to upgrade Windows at the time.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Why pay Microsoft though?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Baku@aussie.zone 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure snow leopard was the last version you could buy physical media for at the very least because that’s the last version I have physical media for lol

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

In my experience they are (comparatively) I absolutely hate using ipados and they messed up airdrop (because why support Bluetooth fileshare when you can have a proprietary protocol) between different versions of ipados with the latest update and now it doesn't work half the time...

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