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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by joekrill on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:48PM (#6593580)
Windows 8.1 upgrade is free. How is this any different?
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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by byuu on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:52PM (#6593613)
Well, a much smaller percentage of Windows users are on 8.0 than OS X users are on Snow Leopard or later. If Blue allowed upgrades from Windows 7 for free, that'd be a more equal comparison.
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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by sahaskatta on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @09:27PM (#6596141)
That would be incorrect. There are more Windows 8 users than ever version of OS X combined.

Sources: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/02/windows-8-jumps-pa...

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by city41 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @09:27AM (#6598532)
That's not what he said. He was speaking in percentages relative to each install base.
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Re:Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free by masklinn on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @02:21PM (#6593878)
Mavericks is free from Snow Leopard onwards (because Leopard didn't have the appstore).

In terms of period that's equivalent to giving 8.1 free to all W7 users (both SL and W7 were released mid-2009)

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