windows 10 wird nahezu verschenkt da es sich sonnst nicht verkaufen würde.
ganz einfach. mal im ernst. wer würde neben android, ios, mac osx, linux distri xyz noch geld für ein home user OS ausgeben, das keinerlei mehrwert bietet?
Prices of Apple's Mac OS X have long been on the wane. After four releases that cost $129, Apple dropped the operating system’s upgrade price to $29 with 2009’s OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and then to $19 with last year’s OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Microsoft – the king of the operating system in the '80s and '90s and on into the aughts – still charges PC makers who sell the Windows OS preloaded on their desktop and laptop machines, but that business is shrinking, thanks in large part to the continued success of Apple
Part of what's going on here is that the low-cost mobile ecosystem has changed the way people think about operating system software. Smartphones and tablets have left traditional computers in the dust, and their operating systems and apps are overwhelmingly free. Upgrades to Apple's iOS platform – which powers the company's iPads tablets and iPhones – have long been free, as have new versions of Google’s Android mobile OS. Like Microsoft, Google supplies operating systems to outside hardware makers, but unlike Microsoft, it doesn't charge them for the software.