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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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