{"id":172,"date":"2009-07-01T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.225.155.113\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/01\/whats_it_going_to_cost_me\/"},"modified":"2019-10-13T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T20:21:46","slug":"whats-it-going-to-cost-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weinstein.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/whats-it-going-to-cost-me.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s It Going to Cost Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing on a theme, Appleinsider<\/a>
\nestimates that “nearly half of all iPhone users … jumped at the
\nopportunity to enhance the functionality of their handsets by
\ninstalling the free iPhone Software 3.0 update” within the first
\nweek of the software update’s release. However, the very same
\nsoftware update that iPod Touch users can also apply has seen
\nextremely limited adoption.<\/p>\n

According to Appleinsider’<\/a>s sources,
\nwithin four days of the software lease, 44% of iPhone users applied
\nthe 3.0 software update while only 1% of iPod Touch downloaded and
\ninstalled the very same software update.<\/p>\n

The difference? Apple uses different
\naccounting methods for the iPhone and iPod lines. As a result, since
\nthe initial release of the iPod Touch, Apple has charged a nominal
\n$10 price tag on software updates.<\/p>\n

Considering that I rationalized<\/a> that
\nconsumers, much like a business, preform a rough cost-benefit
\nanalysis<\/a> when considering if they should preform a software upgrade
\nor not, this bit of evidence presents something different, that
\nconsumers will consider adopting a software upgrade when there is no
\ndirect cost associated with the update.<\/p>\n

Apply this bit of information to the
\nWindows world and well, it shouldn’t shock anyone that Microsoft
\nrecently announced<\/a> that the upcoming Windows 7 release, set for this
\nfall, for consumer versions will be less expensive than similar Vista
\nupgrades.<\/p>\n

Microsoft will also eschew the
\ntraditional limitation that to qualify for the upgrade pricing a
\nuser must be upgrading from the immediately preceding software
\nversion. That is Windows XP users and Vista users will qualify for
\nthe upgrade price, whereas traditionally only Vista owners would
\nqualify.<\/p>\n

And if that wasn’t enough, for a
\nlimited time Microsoft has cut the price by 50% for those who
\npre-order their upgrade before July 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n