Lame: Apple Charging $0.99 For Facetime For Mac
The unexpected for FaceTime at the Mac App Store is a result of accounting regulations, Apple. US accounting rules sometimes require companies to charge for updates if they provide a significant feature left out of original products. An alternative solution can be to restate past earnings, something Apple would likely prefer to avoid. Apple has sometimes been for charging for updates typically expected for free.
Lame: Apple Charging $0.99 For Facetime For Mac Pro
The most frequent example has been major iPod touch firmware upgrades, which cost a small fee up until iOS 4. In 2007, the company went so far as charging $2 to enable 802.11n Wi-Fi on some Macs.
FaceTime for Mac now available for $0.99 (updated) It's a big release day for Apple, and one of the smaller releases is still sure to please a few Mac owners. When Apple released FaceTime 1.0 into the Mac App Store earlier today with a $0.99 price tag, many users were up in arms over the charge for what had been a free application during its beta phase.