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In article <115@avsd.UUCP> govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) writes:
>> 
>>>A software company has to amortize its development costs over projected
>>>sales.
>> 
>> Right.  And so there's no argument for developing any ST software.
[ much of my own stuff from previous deleted ]

>Two comments:
>
>If I may be allowed to generalize, people who buy STs are, on the
>whole, quite different from those who buy PCs and clones.  Many PCs
>go into businesses where money exists to buy expensive software, but
>ST users seem to have trouble buying even moderately priced software.
>
>Rumor has it that WordPerfect Corp. is so disgusted with ST users
>pirating ST WordPerfect that it is considering withdrawing it from the
>market.  As I said, it's only a rumor.  If true, however, it seems
>to support my thesis that software should be priced for the intended
>audience, and I know no ST users who would buy it for $300.  

You missed my point and seem to be just saying the same thing over again,
and so that's what I'll do too.

From a business standpoint, you said it yourself, you must amortize the
development costs over the projected sales.   Yet you also state that
there are fixed price limits in the ST arena.  I agree with both counts,
and I therefore re-state that there is no sound reason to develop
Atari ST products.

The equation doesn't add up.   You can't expect large volume with an ST
product; and you yourself state that you can't increase the retail price
either.  So there's no way you can ever recover the development costs.

So there's no reason for a commercial enterprise to spend any development
money on Atari ST products.  You're saying it, not me.   I'm just agreeing
with you.

Following this logic, there's no reason to buy an Atari ST computer, becuase
nobody is going to develop software for it.  And there's no reason to develop
my own software, unless it's my hobyy, becuase I'll never recover my own
development costs either.  This means that my ST will only have non-commercial
software available and eventually it will die.  Umm... seems like I agree with
you here too.   Now I only wish didn't already have a pile of 'em.
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