Alongside today’s slew of announcements, Apple has released an official 1.0 of the FaceTime application, which had been in public beta since October. This release appears to be for existing Mac owners, and customers buying Macs from this point forward will be getting FaceTime preinstalled on their machines for free.
Why is Apple now charging for FaceTime you ask? Well, it appears it has something to do with Apple’s accounting rules, and Apple has to charge for the update. It’s not clear what it takes to trigger these rules, but Apple feels that there was a significant enough change in the software to charge for it.
Now, amongst all of the griping, you have to realize that Apple never promised that this was going to be free when it was officially released. You also have to realize that it’s 99¢, and not the steep $9.99 Apple used to charge for, say, iPod touch software updates.
The question I have is what is the difference between FaceTime 1.0 and the beta we’ve all been using?
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