Comments on: Going Broke On Upgrades http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Scroll of Emptiness http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306125 Tue, 17 May 2005 07:28:07 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/16/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306125 No Tiger for me.

As has been mentioned here before, I’m a recentish convert to the happy, shiny word of Apple.

I have truly partaken of the Jobs-reality-distortion-field enducing Kool-aid. I am one of the faithful. I truly believe. Etcetera.

But I’m not buyi…

]]> By: Tony Korologos http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306128 Mon, 16 May 2005 21:45:01 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/16/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306128 No doubt upgrading to Tiger will force me to do some of those upgrades…

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306127 Mon, 16 May 2005 21:38:29 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/16/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306127 Sorry, I missunderstood your point. I thought you were blaming the upgrade costs on moving to Tiger.
You were speaking in general. yeah, i agree there. Which is why I’m still on Photoshop 7…

]]> By: Tony Korologos http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306126 Mon, 16 May 2005 20:58:39 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/16/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306126 Many of these apps would have upgrades regardless of the OS situation…

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306129 Mon, 16 May 2005 20:48:54 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/16/going-broke-on-upgrades/#comment-306129 I upgraded to Tiger and I’m still using my Photoshop 7 and related versions. They work fine. Sure, CS or CS2 could be hugely optimized, but I’m fine w/o them at this point.
Same with Macromedia Studio MX (pre 2004 version). no problems there.
Same with MS Office 2004.
I don’t think I had to reup for anything except for QT 7 Pro. All my shareware and similar apps had free upgrades where they were necessary to run on Tiger.

So I had a grand total of $159.

Sure, you COULD upgrade all that stuff, but typically, anything that’s gonna get hugely broken in an OS upgrade is offered as part of the existing, paid license. (I can’t speak for the pro level apps though).

so you may be better off than you think. just my experience at least. hope that’s somewhat helpful.

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