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Story: Apple users must pay for faster Wi-Fi

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Posted by: longmover (Friday 19 January 2007, 10:56 AM)

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Only if it adds value

Matt, thanks for your reply. The reason they have to charge is because enabling additional functionality above and beyond the sale spec could be construed as retrospectively adjusting the value of an item already sold. I can't see it applying to Microsoft patches because they are simply fixing something which should have worked when shipped and to a lesser extent providing incremental software updates/minor enhancements. The situation with the Apple WiFi upgrade is that it makes the hardware function at a level above and beyond the specification of the original unit, this is effectively giving the consumer a hardware upgrade and so cannot be given out for free due to SOX constraints. This is nothing more than Apple covering their backs because of the whole Enron drama, perhaps your article would be better titled: "SOX forces Apple to charge for update"....

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