{"id":1387,"date":"2007-01-16T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/buy-base-station-to-get-software-update\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T01:01:22","slug":"buy-base-station-to-get-software-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/buy-base-station-to-get-software-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Base Station to Get Software Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nCore 2 Duo\u2013based Macs ship with 802.11n-capable hardware, but to get the software to enable this you have to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/airport-extreme-with-airport-disk\/\">new AirPort Extreme base station<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/backstage.ilounge.com\/index.php\/backstage\/comments\/oh-about-that-80211n-card-in-your-c2d-mac\/\">iLounge<\/a>, this is not because Apple\u2019s trying to push base stations, but rather because they\u2019re trying to comply with accounting rules from 2002\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act\">Sarbanes-Oxley Act<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/backstage.ilounge.com\/index.php\/backstage\/comments\/oh-about-that-80211n-card-in-your-c2d-mac\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nThe company believes that if it sells a product, then later adds a feature to that product, it can be held liable for improper accounting if it recognizes revenue from the product at the time of sale, given that it hasn\u2019t finished delivering the product at that point.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nIn other words, it may be illegal for a public, US-based company to issue a free software update that adds features. I\u2019m not a lawyer, and I haven\u2019t read the Act, so I have no comment on whether this legal interpretation is correct.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core 2 Duo\u2013based Macs ship with 802.11n-capable hardware, but to get the software to enable this you have to buy a new AirPort Extreme base station. According to iLounge, this is not because Apple\u2019s trying to push base stations, but rather because they\u2019re trying to comply with accounting rules from 2002\u2019s Sarbanes-Oxley Act: The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}