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From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Message-ID: <5317@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 22 Mar 90 08:17:37 GMT
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In article <174@pacvax.UUCP> tjc@pacvax.UUCP (Tom Colley) writes:
>In article <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>>Huh?  Being an Apple Partner costs $600/year, and gets you really good 
>>hardware discounts, access to MacDTS, access to events like the annual 
>>Spring Developers' Conference, and developer mailings, which include 
>>things like the CD.
>>
>>The CD-ROM drive, last I looked, was less costly than, say, Toshiba's.
>
>Hello Apple?
>I develop Mac software on my own time at home. I have already sunk quite
>a bit of my own money into Apple (Mac II, color monitor, APDA, Inside Mac, 
>MPW, MPW C, MIDI Toolbox, etc.)  I am not a large corporation that can 
>afford to buy anything!  I just do not have the cash to buy a CD ROM
>(around $700 - $1200), becoming an Apple Partner ($600/year), flying to
>the 'annual Spring Developers' Conference', or (after becoming a
>'partner') buying a CD that has the updated Inside Mac Manuals ($???).
>I would appreciate being able to get the updated IM in some other
>(slightly cheaper) form.  Thank you.


  Oh, come off it, people!  I've been hacking away on my Mac for years
getting a program into shape, paying for everything out of my (small)
pocket.  Recently I found an investor.  One.  The grand total for a CD-ROM,
certification fee, and a flight to San Jose for a few days for the
conference was ~$1500.
  What's my point?  If you are serious about MAKING MONEY as a developer,
you ought to spend the money for this stuff.  The above is about 1/10 the
price of a nice, big, color ad in MacWorld.

  If you are doing it as a hobbyist, don't worry.  You can almost certainly
get what you need from Apple through APDA, no CD-ROM, no nothing.  If you
NEED pre-release System 7.0 software, if you NEED to buy one each of every
CPU Apple sells, if you NEED to get your product out to beta testers
yesterday, you WILL pay the money, and with a smile!  If not, don't.
Chances are you can do whatever you want with paperback IM, auto-order
technotes, and a little cleverness.

-- Mark Wilkins