Why is Apple Charging $0.99 for FaceTime for Mac?
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Why is Apple Charging $0.99 for FaceTime for Mac?
Due to Accounting requirements, Apple is charging people with older Macs 99 cents to purchase the FaceTime 1.0 app which has just been released on the Mac App Store.
FaceTime beta was free but the final version of the app is priced at $0.99 and free for newer Macs. This is not a huge price at all and everyone can afford it. Still it has bewildered a lot of people and they have been wondering why it’s not free. Some even went about calling Steve Jobs a liar when he said FaceTime is going to be an open technology. So this is why apple is charging us for FaceTime, as observed by us and Dan Moren.
Macworld’s Dan Moren has confirmed that Apple’s charging us because of an Accounting requirement,
The same had also happened when Apple had released the firmware upgrade for the first generation iPod Touch.
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