Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!tank!gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Developers conference Message-ID: <8406@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 17:26:56 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 39 In article , es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg) writes... >[quotes omitted because I haven't figured out how to not omit them] > >Well, I can see where moving it around would lose something, and you're right, >San Jose is Apple's backyard.... but for starving college students in >Pittsburgh, a $300 round trip is quite hefty (esp. if I get to pay the leg >when I get there!). But it would be nice if they could more if out once in >a while. C'mon folks: this _is_ the Developers Conference we're talking about. It's a way cool extravanganza where you get to meet and greet the Apple tech high and mighty, eat good food, learn cool non-disclosure stuff, and in general learn enough to help your projects a great deal. Or at least that's what people who've been have told me. I've never attended. But that's OK by me; when it's worth it to me, I will. Apple doesn't _need_ to provide this kind of support to every starving college student -- or starving wage slave -- with a great programming idea. And they can't. It's just not realistic. I think mini-developers conferences sound like a great idea, but I'm not too sure how practical that is either. For my money I'd like to see Apple beef up its non-human developer support: revise Inside Mac and lower APDA prices on tech docs and tools (no, not MPW, I've heard already why that's so expensive). That would go a long way to helping us 'poor folk' until we can afford the DC. Robert ============================================================================ = gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu * generic disclaimer: * "It's more fun to = = * all my opinions are * compute" = = * mine * -Kraftwerk = ============================================================================