[X-Unix] Software update - Quicktime - invalidates your existing registration!

[William H. Magill]

Software Update downloaded a new version of Quicktime -  V7 - not an  
"update" and eliminated my Quick Time Pro Registration!

That was E X T R E M E L Y nasty.

No warnings that my current registration would be wiped, let alone that 
one would be required to purchase a new one. ... things just stopped 
working!!!
It took a bit of sluthing to discover that the Pro Registration had 
been wiped.

While I don't begrudge Apple's charging for a new version. The fact 
that neither the old "order confirmation" implied that it was version 
specific, nor the fact that the download happened without any kind of 
warning about needing a new license, says much for "customer service."


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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