Michael Steeber on his Substack newsletter:

Back in the days when software could be weighed and measured, the release of a new operating system was as big of a deal as any other hardware release. But let’s not forget: updates weren’t free. Mac OS X Panther, released on October 24, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., cost $129.

This was shortly after I left Apple Retail, but looking at the pictures from this era brings me back to that time.

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