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

[lj Palmer]

I don't understand this complaint. The web page mentioned it. Also the 
installation package has a step that requires you to answer a statement 
about the loss of QT Pro KEY ID.
..lj

On May 1, 2005, at 12:36, William H. Magill wrote:

> 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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