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- From: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <wallich.724643856@pepper>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:57:36 GMT
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- edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys) writes:
-
- >I don't know if I'm reading the APDA price lists correctly, but it seems to
- >me that in order to get MPW w/ C and C++, one needs to shell out an insane
- >amount of money, somewhere around $600. Is this correct? Does any other place
- >sell MPW, perhaps at a slightly lower price? I'm beginning to really like
- >THINK C, especially since it cost me $50 through Drexel.
-
- Nope, you're reading it right. Seems Apple, in their infinite
- stupidity, has decided to make the Mac a "professional development
- machine". This means *expensive* licenses for *all* their development
- tools. MacTCP and MPW among the lucky packages to get "revenue
- enhanced". Gotta pay for all that cheap hardware someplace.
-
- I think like everything the bean counters and managers don't
- understand why a product gets popular. After all, the folks inside
- Apple get all this for free, so the street price doesn't matter. They
- figure that "professional developers" can afford the outrageous
- prices, forgetting that the small independent developer is what helps
- make the machine a success. Look at all the cheap stuff you can get
- for windows, *including* the development kit.
-
- Basically, Apple is shooting itself in the pocketbook, and virtually
- guarenteeing that people will give up all the cool and better stuff
- on the Mac for inferior, but affordable stuff on a heap like Windows.
-
- Either that or they want to boost sales of ThinkC and encourage people
- to write a real shell so you can use gcc with it instead of MPW.
-
- At least the prices aren't up their with the NeXT box (yet)...
-
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- Ken Wallich
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