Pricing: SNow Leopard of $29 - Anthony Ha

That's for Leopard users - Anthony Ha

uh! - alieb

$49 family pack - Anthony Ha

AWESOME! - jnman

Not $129? Sweet. - DGentry

Snow Leopard available this September. - Anthony Ha

afront to Microsoft :-) - olafzanger

$29 = sure upgrade - Parth Awasthi

Near-final developer preview available today. - Anthony Ha

All that cheering was for "$29"?! - Ken Sheppardson

@Ken Yes. - Anthony Ha

yeah and cool price! - Luca Filigheddu

$29 means developers can count on their users having it. That's worth a cheer in a room full of developers. - Kevin Fox

What's the price for non-Leopard users? And PowerPC? - Ian Betteridge

@Ian They didn't say. - Anthony Ha

@Ian INTEL only. PPC is dead. - Jamie

It's likely $129, as it's replacing Leopard. I don't know if it's really worth even $30 for Leopard users: what's the wow factor? - Mark Trapp

They haven't been offering upgrade prices for MacOS X until now, every release has been a full-price upgrade. Having done it for 10.6, it would be very difficult for Apple to make future upgrades be full-price. So the developers cheering was possibly not so much for the $29 price as that Apple has permanently removed one barrier which kept users on older releases. - DGentry

DGentry: I don't think there's much precedent being set. 10.0 -> 10.1 was free, and there were discounted point releases throughout the Classic lifespan. They could just as easily bump the price back up to $129 for 10.7 and justify it by saying "but look at all the feature's we're including, it's like a whole new OS, and it's still cheaper than Windows!" - Mark Trapp

I'd forgotten the 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade, but not many users were on the platform then. I suppose you're right that Apple could raise the price right back to where it was, but it still seems like a reason for developers to be hopeful they won't have to worry quite so much about supporting older releases. - DGentry

I'm glad Snow Leopard will be available for USD 29. That seems like a fair price. - Rick Cogley