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Article #1137Re: NeXTStep 486 should cost $250
From: Mark Adler
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:28
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:28
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>> > over $5,000. I'm of the impression that the price we've >> > set is extremely cheap for what you get. >> >> While philosophically true, the above doesn't count for beans >> toward the success of NeXTstep 486 if customers refuse to pay >> the $995 asking price. Quite true. I sent this to the NeXT poster (that does not speak for NeXT): I agree with the poster that $250 would be an optimal price, based on total sales. In other words the number sold times the price per each would have a peak around $250. However, I also suspect that you're right--that the royalties amount to more than that. The solution is to get the parties to whom royalties are due to reduce their royalties on the same logic: that they'll get more money that way. Mark Adler madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Subject: Re: NeXTStep 486 should cost $250 Message-ID: <1992Apr9.182834.28929@cco.caltech.edu> Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: truebalt Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena References: <3526@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1992Apr9.180629.16018@cs.yale.edu> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:28:34 GMT Lines: 20