[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Mark]

On 30 Jul 2008, at 06:11, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Anyone remember the 10.1 upgrade disk fiasco? 10.0 CD's (it fit on one
> CD at the time) cost (I think) $129. When 10.1 came out Apple sold
> 10.1 CD's for the same price.
>
> To make things easier for customers and to foster the adoption of  
> 10.1,
> Apple sold 10.1 upgrade CD's for $20. These contained everything you
> needed to install 10.1 from scratch, with an extra program the checked
> to make sure you actually had 10.0 installed before it would install.
>
> The idea was that since you already had a license for OSX, there was
> no need to buy another. The $20 was the cost of producing the CD and
> selling it in the retail channel.
>
> Within days postings were flying around the Internet on how to burn a
> modified CD that would install without a prior OSX system being  
> present.
>
> For $20 and a blank CD, you could make all the OSX install CD's you  
> wanted.

Again, a difficult and harmful episode that's likely to have put Apple  
off doing it ever again.

I do think Apple users are a bunch of ungrateful mercenaries  
sometimes, and that's often what stops Apple doing some cool stuff  
that would otherwise be a great thing to have.

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