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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW target market & usage
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Date: 20 Oct 89 19:43:05 GMT
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In article <16255@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) writes:
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>It's safe to say, I think, that although MPW's target market may be the
>professional developer on a IIcx, lots of people are using it on Pluses
>and SEs. Those same people are probably also on a more limited budget and
>wish that MPW cost significantly less.

I think that the stats and summary that you posted should only apply to the
people WHO USE THIS MEDIUM. Most of the people on this net are, I believe,
University students, who are on limited budgets. Stats taken at the Spring
Developers conference came up with vastly different figures, with most 
developers having Mac II's or better, multiple monitors, 5megs of RAM, mondo 
hard disks, etc. This shows a significant market that has the bucks to spend
on MPW.

I'd like to make one other comment about the price of MPW. Almost the entire
price of MPW is for covering the cost of document duplication. APDA tries to do
a classy job with this, and it costs them a lot of money. The large amount of 
documentation adds to the heavy cost.

I can hear it now..."Well, I'm willing to get slightly worse documentation for
a cheaper price." So...let them know. You have their address. You have their
phone number. Let your voice be heard! That's what it's for!.
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