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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: Solid Value, Rulers, and Copy Protection (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.202800.25907@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:28:00 GMT
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- Good Comparison of PC-Windows market and Next market deleted
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- However, we can hope that developing on a Next is easier to do than in that
- Windows environment. We should add that the checkbook program mentioned
- requires a team of 5 windows experts and 3 manyears of work to get the product
- out the door. Whereas the Next app too a college student a weekend.
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- All kidding aside. If we are constrained to the normal venture startup
- companies the market for Next software is too small to bother with.
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- A better model for comparison I think is that of comparing it to a writer.
- Most professional writers will tell you: "Don't quit your dayjob when you make
- your first sale."
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- The small cheap useful apps are going to be written by people who are not
- depending on sales to make their living, at least initially. The income
- function will be 0 for the first year or so (learning). Finally the first good
- app comes together. A month of hard work. That month may generate income for
- the next several years.
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- The really large complicated apps are either going to depend on programmers
- sharing (by sale or gift) new object classes, or are going to be limited to
- corporations who can afford to put significant resources into a product without
- an immediate hope of return.
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