Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!bu.edu!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!isle From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: After Dark 2.0 - any news? Message-ID: <23497@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 3 Aug 90 18:33:50 GMT References: <26716@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Aug3.102021.2770@coral.bucknell.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Isle Systems - Waltham, MA Lines: 37 In article <1990Aug3.102021.2770@coral.bucknell.edu> smith@coral.bucknell.edu (Greg Smith) writes: > >I recently purchased a tape drive for my Mac. With that drive, I received the >After Dark starter kit. There didn't appear to be any way for me to become a >registered user, although the kit did include a form for me to order the After >Dark programming kit, extra modules, etc. for ~$14.95. Is there some way for >me to get After Dark 2.0 without spending the $14.95 for that programming kit >and an additional $5.00 for an upgrade after that? I can do this story one better.... A friend of mine had a pirate copy of After Dark running on his computer. I saw it, really liked it, so I ordered a copy from MacConnection for $22. Now I'm going to have to pay $15 (70% of purchase price) for version 2.0. So, now I'm getting to pay $37 for the same package that will still cost $22 from MacConnection. I sometimes have to wonder why I'm honest in the first place.... Adobe is doing the same thing with Adobe Type Manager 2.0. $20 for twice the speed for 1.2 -- that's not the 70% of the purchase price, but still about 50%. Because I've decided to support a company and a new product from the beginning, I'm the one who's going to get to pay... I don't mind paying upgrades for products that are significantly better, but if the company that makes them doesn't think the new version is good enough to warrant a price raise, then why am I getting charge more? Ken -- Ken Hancock | This account needs a new home in MA... Isle Systems | Can you provide a link for it? isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu | It doesn't bite... :-)