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Michael Glenn writes
> Sounds great.  How about a version that only does icons, crashes often,  
> has maybe half the functionality of the old Icon.app, and costs me $0.   

Seriously, I doubt anyone would make heavy use of a program that crashed often.   
I have talked with a number of people who would use Icon back in 2.0 and 2.1  
days but didn't because it had a serious lack of documentation, it was  
unreliable and unpredictable.

If you need something without bells and whistles and just want very basic  
drawing tools, what's wrong with IconBuilder?

I don't think $100 is too high for students to pay, nor do I think that it's  
too low a price for Appsoft to sell Image for (actually, I can't think of a  
single piece of software I use that is worth more than $100).

> Appsoft has GOT to be kidding me[...]

From what I understand, the features in Appsoft Image are far above the tools  
provided with the drawing programs bundled with operating systems or GUIs.

> Anyone up for a boycot of this app till the price drops below $30  

I would think $100 would be a fair figure to ask, if what I believe to be in  
there (based on what I've read in magazines and on the net) is actually in  
there and working.  From what I understand, it seems to be the Adobe Photoshop  
for the NeXT.

I think NeXT pushing the ultra-low-end (nearing "Mom, look, I made an app"  
quality) IconBuilder is part of their poorly executed effort to not step on 
NeXT apps in production.  One thing they forgot about is that if they bundle  
crap, they are telling developers that it's okay to sell something that does  
little more than this and charge an arm and a leg for it.

> Either that, or write our own Icon.app for the NeXT, but at this  
> point when I think of *designing* icons, images, etc. the very LAST thing  
> I think of anymore is a NeXT.

It amazes me how many people think it's okay to expect anyone who wants  
something done to "write it themselves".  There are NON-developers who own NeXT  
machines and they have money to spend on apps that will do what they want them  
to do.

If I were you, Michael Glenn, I'd hold off until something better comes along  
or Appsoft lowers the educational price on Image.
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