Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by edu on Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:24AM (#3598720)

I hope it'll be a free update.

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by RKearney on Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:41AM (#3598835)

You mean like how every other update was free?

It will cost $29

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by edu on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:30AM (#3599051)

Yes, with the difference that the other OS X updates were not just a bunch of iOS Apps ported to the Mac, that why I paid for them and that's why if Mountain Lion is release with a price tag over $0 I'll keep using Lion (and hopefully this will incentivize Apple to make a real OS X update somewhere in 2013-2014).

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by thomasjoulin on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:49AM (#3599139)

He meant like every iOS updates were free. It will be free

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by sjwright on Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:41AM (#3598831)

I hope it'll be $29, because that's near enough to free, and I like the idea that Apple has a financial incentive to continue supporting their existing customers.

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by edu on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:27AM (#3599037)

Then I will keep using Lion in hope they release a real OS X update sometime in the future for which I would pay play gladly as I've been doing with all the previous updated, because right now Mountain Lion is just a bunch of iOS Apps ported to OS X.

I'm sorry, but IMO the value of this update is $0.

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by ceejayoz on Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:08PM (#3600645)

"Real" updates used to cost $130. Now we get a couple updates for $30. In the long run, you're likely paying less for new features than you used to.

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