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Story: Apple users must pay for faster Wi-Fi

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Posted by: longmover (Friday 19 January 2007, 9:44 AM)

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The real reason for the $1.99....

..is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If Apple were to ship this for free then it would be deemed to be retrospectively adding value to a product which has already been shipped, Enron anyone?

I am not a reporter but 5 mins on the web turned this up, come on ZDNet, this is appalling.

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