<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Actually until the most recent iWork suite (or was it the immediately preceeding one?), there was a 16-character key that had to be entered to unlock the software.</div><div><br></div><div>--j</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 20, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p><snark> that's because the average technical skills of the typical Mac won't allow inserting a character string longer than an atm pin number!</snark></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2010 11:15 PM, "Richard Bronosky" <<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Even their Mac OS, which is not free, installs without a serial<br>
> number. As does their iLife and iWork software suites. I really<br>> appreciate not being treated like a criminal if I am going to pay for<br>> software.<br>> <br>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Chris Fowler<br>
> <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 21:19 -0500, Michael Potter wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> With the premium they charge they can afford to give better service.<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>><br>>> Yes. A friend had an iTouch that would not keep updated time. He took<br>>> it to the store to try and find out why and they updated it for him to<br>>> 4.1. It was out of warranty.<br>
>><br>>> The update is free, even to i* that is out of warranty, but it was<br>>> decent of them to do it for him. He was having problems at home doing<br>>> it him self.<br>>><br>>> It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.<br>
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