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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: rtgwbmsr on 4 January 2003, 07:41

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 4 January 2003, 07:41

Apple may start charging up to $50 for iDVD (Previously $20), iMovie, and iPhoto.

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979129.html?tag=lh (http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979129.html?tag=lh)

I don't use those so it's no big loss to me!

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: psyjax on 4 January 2003, 08:21

If iTunes goes payware, I'm switching to MacAmp.

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: psyjax on 4 January 2003, 08:34

I had to comment on this agian. Apple is getting fucked up, considering that the iApps are a major reason OS X is sooo damn good!

They will be sucking the life out of their system. A very Microsofty move by apple, shame on them. People should send in some complaint letters!

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: xyle_one on 4 January 2003, 08:49

Thats fooked up. It seems like a backwards ass way to sell computers. I sure as hell will not be paying for any upgrades to these apps. I do use iTunes & iPhoto, but im sure i could find alternatives if i have to. Fucked up.

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: choasforages on 4 January 2003, 21:29

maybe apple is dieing. if they shoot themselve's in the foot and out of business, us linux zealots are going to have to take the full force of M$.

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: hm_murdock on 4 January 2003, 10:10

I can tell that I switched not a moment too soon. Right in the middle of the OS X conversion, and in the middle of a slump that's strangling them!

To arms! To arms!

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 4 January 2003, 10:17

If Apple goes down I think I'll change my name to Fladius and become omish.

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: cahult on 4 January 2003, 23:36

I think this is just an evil rumour. Why should Apple do something like this on the very threshold to big success?

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: ravuya on 5 January 2003, 00:14

quote:

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Originally posted by psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax:
If iTunes goes payware, I'm switching to MacAmp.

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Audion for me, but I will miss iTunes' cool music database system. Reminds me a lot of SoundJam MP, a great product which they killed and gutted to make iTunes in the first place.

Title: Apple to charge for some iApps
Post by: cocoamix on 5 January 2003, 00:33

NOTHING can be worse than Apple's situation in 1996. They'll survive. Too many people care too much about the platform.
That said, iTunes is the only iApp I'd pay for, mainly because of its awesome MP3 organization tools and its AppleScript functionality.
For instance, when I'm browsing forums, I just hit a key combo (control+right) and Applescript switches to iTunes, plays the next track after a dialog box pops up for 2 seconds showing artist, track, and album, then immediately switches back to Chimera.
I love it.
WinAmp on my PC seems like such a dinosaur by comparison.