Re: Free updates.
If folk were paying for buggy software as they do whenever MS release an update then that’s understandable. But folk pay zilch for effectively freeware.
Are you under the impression that people have to pay for each Windows 10 update that comes along?
Most people who use Windows buy a new PC with Windows preinstalled. Its cost is part of the PC's product price, just as it is with MacOS. By your example, people who bought PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled, or with 7 or 8.1 and who used the free Win 10 upgrade deal, are now paying "zilch" for "effectively freeware" too, which you are apparently suggesting makes it okay to release beta-quality crap to the public.
The only difference in how one pays for MacOS and Windows 10 is that Windows 10 is available as a purchasable standalone product, while MacOS is not. Otherwise, both are commercial software obtained by buying a computer that comes with the OS installed already. That doesn't make MacOS free... it just means that the cost is part of the computer's purchase price, as with Windows. Neither one is freeware, and neither one costs "zilch." If it's unacceptable that Microsoft releases crap (and it is), then it's equally unacceptable when Apple does the same. For the company that charges more for its products because things are supposed to "just work" and not have the problems Windows has, perhaps even more so.
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