An Update is Available For Your Computer!

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25 February 2011

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Funny because it’s true.

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dbin78

“Linux” should be “Linux/Chromium” :)
- Oscar Godson
  
  @dbin78 Chromium is still just Linux ;)
http://thenextweb.com/members/dbin78/ Dain Binder

“Linux” should be “Linux/Chromium” :)
http://projectdeploy.org Oscar Godson

@Dain Binder
Adi Jaya

if it is “An update is available for your computer” then this cartoon is wrong, false, misleading, incorrect. In the Mac, updates are always free.
Adi Jaya

if it is “An update is available for your computer” then this cartoon is wrong, false, misleading, incorrect. In the Mac, updates are always free.
Stephen Goebler

Cute … and accurate (unfortunately)
http://thenextweb.com/members/fb1614477517/ Stephen Goebler

Cute … and accurate (unfortunately)
Gustavo Macedo

For normal users (not heavy users) Linux is different of Chromium. Then….
“Linux” should be “Linux/Chromium” :) [2]
Gustavo Macedo

For normal users (not heavy users) Linux is different of Chromium. Then….”Linux” should be “Linux/Chromium” :) [2]
Livefyre User

funny still not quite right; i never payed anything to update my (legit) mac
Rich

funny still not quite right; i never payed anything to update my (legit) mac
Livefyre User

mac upgrade try $29
- Vitor Hugo Silva
  
  @Lisa Ballard That’s what you pay for the software update…. because a mac hardware upgrade: ~2000$
- Elijah Meyer
  
  @Vitor Hugo Silva @Lisa Ballard Actually, that’s what you pay for a new OS. Software updates a free.
- Elijah Meyer
  
  @Vitor Hugo Silva @Lisa Ballard Actually, that’s what you pay for a new OS. Software updates are free.
Lisa Ballard

mac upgrade try $29
Livefyre User

Funny to stupid people who don’t bother to check their facts, because they think it’s true. In actuality, however, this is complete BULLSHIT. Tiger and Leopard were both $69. Snow Leopard was $29; but those weren’t weren’t even updates. They were entirely new operating systems, with robust new feature sets, and significant changes to the underlying code. Updates to each of those operating systems were/are/always have been FREE.
- Iman Sharee
  
  @Elijah Meyer LOL you’re exactly the type of person that makes this cartoon so funny! Apple charges crazy amounts for their HARDWARE. so much so, that they can afford to give away their OS for FREE and they STILL charge you for it! lol
- Elijah Meyer
  
  @Iman Sharee What, you mean people who can comprehend objective reality? There are many legitimately funny jokes to be made about the cost of Mac hardware, and the willingness of Mac users to pay that price. However, none of those jokes appear in this here comic. It doesn’t even mention hardware. It’s about the cost of an update. Which is, and always has been, FREE. You understand that those are entirely different (and, for the purpose of this comic, unrelated) things, correct?
  
  So are you saying the joke in the comic — depicting something that’s never actually occurred in real life — is merely symbolic of an entirely different cost/benefit situation, that only non-mac users are privy to? WOW. Clearly your mind works on an entirely different level than mine.
- Jen Marie
  
  @Elijah Meyer @Iman Sharee Forever alone.
Elijah Meyer

Funny to stupid people who don’t bother to check their facts, because they think it’s true. In actuality, however, this is complete BULLSHIT. Tiger and Leopard were both $69. Snow Leopard was $29; but those weren’t weren’t even updates. They were entirely new operating systems, with robust new feature sets, and significant changes to the underlying code. Updates to each of those operating systems were/are/always have been FREE.
Adam Beecher

Apple commentors in no-sense-of-humour pedantry shocker!
Adam Beecher

Apple commentors in no-sense-of-humour pedantry shocker!
Iman Sharee

@Elijah Meyer
Vitor Hugo Silva

@Lisa Ballard
Elijah Meyer

@Iman Sharee

So are you saying the joke in the comic — depicting something that’s never actually occurred in real life — is merely symbolic of an entirely different cost/benefit situation, that only non-mac users are privy to? WOW. Clearly your mind works on an entirely different level than mine.
Elijah Meyer

@Vitor Hugo Silva@Lisa Ballard
Elijah Meyer

@Vitor Hugo Silva@Lisa Ballard
Jen Marie

@Elijah Meyer@Iman Sharee
Loris Guignard

Nah, the linux user has to recompile his kernel for like 4 hours before using the free stuff
Loris Guignard

Nah, the linux user has to recompile his kernel for like 4 hours before using the free stuff
mjsolvia71

Kinda cute.

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