iPad Getting Paid OS Upgrades After 4.0

[filmman03]

[citation][nom]orionantares[/nom]Cheap imitations that they are sadly managing to gouge people with.[/citation]

Well of course. Advertise your products and beat down the competition. Raise the prices and enforce strict rules on your products. O and make it all shiny, that's important. don't look under the hood though.

 

[JMS3096]

Actually the text merely says that updates AT LEAST through 4.x will be free. No mention whether updates past then will be free or not. Try reading the referenced text instead of blindly copy-pasting an article from somewhere else.

Of course, I forgot that this is Tom's Guide, and that's pretty much the description of any "news" piece on here.

For the record: I am posting this from a ThinkPad, that does not and will not ever have an Apple i******* connected to it.

 

[ubergeek]

(somewhere behind the sceens at aPple): So how can we make a few extra bux off our new iPad? Milk it, milk it... I GOT IT! We'll launch it with the iPhone OS and then make them PAY for the iPad OS it should have come with in the first place. We'll include some of the features we know about but didn't tell them were in it and they will greatfully thank us with some more money at a later date. BRILLIANT!


(In the rest of the world): not again!

 

[Guest]

HAHAHAHA
knew it.

 

[Manos]

F*** you too Apple. I aint paying shit for pure updates. WTF is up with that?

With love from Greece.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I am very surprised that one might have to pay for updates. It is usually a complete new version that one pays for.

 

[d3adp0ol]

my god, what a rip-off. They put a feature in the device, but then lock it just so they can charge you extra for it later? not to mention they're forcing customers to pay extra for security updates and other firmware fixes that are a necessity to keep the device working properly. Apple is such a garbage company, but the iZombies will shell out for anything with a fancy logo

 

[HalJordan]

It is just another form of the Apple tax, and Apple acolytes will gladly pay it as long as the get an Apple sticker with their iPad which they can't slap on the back of their cars...

 

[Guest]

I heard that there is multitasking in 4.0; that alone is worth the price

William, theamazingipad.com

 

[Guest]

I have a Blackberry which is great with the chat function, otherwise pretty much useless. I also have an HTC android phone which I probably used for all of three days before I gave up. The iPhone 4 is brilliant. Does everything I hoped it would do. I also have the iPad and I use it for a few hours every day. For all you haters out there, please buy your Android/Windows Mobile/Blackberry etc and put up with all the crap that brings with it. I used PC computers from 3.11 to XP and ever since I switched to Mac I don't even want to touch PC's with a stick.