At 07:42 PM 02/02/2007, Brian Weeden wrote:
Supposedly it is related to the Sarbanes-Oxley law passed to help prevent future Enrons. Under SOX, a company cannot claim profits from something before they sell it. Apple sold the devices, counted them as profits, then is enabling more features later on.
But if they already charged for the item, why not just give the update away for free? NVidia has sometimes doubled performance with free driver upgrades.
T
