Pay for upgrade only to use on intel mac?

I upgraded from FCE 2.0 to FCE 3.0 HD earlier this year (paid $99). I did this mainly because after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) keyboard shortcuts started to crash FCE when using local keymap (finnish). I also thought, that by doing so I would not have to pay so much than for upgrading later to 4.0 or and so on. Usually upgrades tend to be cheaper, if you have more recent version from which to upgrade.
Now I have new, shiny intel mac (macbook 2GHz) and I'd like to use my FCE HD on it for now on, because I was told that all apple applications were already universal-versions by now. They are indeed, but it seems that only version 3.5 of fce hd is universal, and I would have to upgrade again, only to get the software working again (like last time, when keyboard shortcuts stopped working). However, it seems that upgrade from 2.0->3.5 costs as much as upgrade from 3.0->3.5. So upgraders who have already upgraded once (or even twice for that matter) have to pay the whole upgrade price again. And you can't get universal version of fce hd from software update.
Is this the way apple is rewarding its loyal customers who actively buy product upgrades? I'm not against paying for upgrades, but i'm not willing to upgrade twice a year only to keep the software i've already paid for running on my computer. I was planning to upgrade again when version 4.0 with serious upgrades comes out, but i'm not going to pay $99 then again, because it seems that upgrade price from 3.0->4.0 or 3.5->4.0 will be the same.
Meanwhile, I'll seek cheaper sources to keep my paid software running on my mac.

FCE 3.0 was introduced nearly a year before the Intel Macs and it was never claimed to be a UB version.
Unfortunately many people bought it thinking it would work on the new machines.
To be fair to Apple, if you read the small print on the box, you will see that as a system requirement it needs a G4 or G5 processor.
The poor customer was left to infer that an Intel processor would not work properly.
Definitely a case of "Caveat Emptor".
You probably can use FCE if you press the "esc" key whenever, you get the error message.
Ian.

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