In today's episode of To Catch a Troll, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm says:"Apple Follows In Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Footsteps, Makes OS X Updates Free" (no link but tip o' the antlers to Varun Pramanik).Microsoft provided an update to an existing major release. If we are to follow Wilhelm's logic--the logic of alternate realities--then technically we would have to go back to the first upgrade Ada Lovelace provided for free to fix bugs in her wood- and spring-based computer. (They were actual bugs.)This is a change for Apple, a company that in the past charged for updates to its desktop operating system.It's a change, but it's also the end result of a natural progression. Apple's operating system release have been getting cheaper and cheaper over the years.Those fees were low How low? less than $50 TechCrunch: Yesterday's vague answers, t
