Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Spot, the Wonder Dog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: After Dark 2.0 - any news? Message-ID: <43611@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 3 Aug 90 19:47:35 GMT References: <26716@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Aug3.102021.2770@coral.bucknell.edu> <23497@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: Third man from the Rhino, the Jungle Cruise Lines: 33 isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes: >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.... Well, you're honest because it helps you sleep better at night. Your honest because it's the honest people that make sure a company gets enough money to survive long enough to release 2.0 -- and making sure they get enough money to convince them it's worth doing 2.0. There's a strong fallacy in your argument -- You're assigning a value of $0 for your ability to have the product. You're saying "I can buy it now for $22 and buy the new release later for $15, or I can buy the new release later new for $22" -- what is the *value* of having it for the period between "now" and "later"? If it's zero, then why are you bothering to use the product? Remember, you're USING the product while waiting for the upgrade. That use is returning some of the value that you paid for it. Sure, you could have waited. But what would that have cost you elsewhere? -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] It's a small world, after all! It's a small world, after all! It's a small world, after all! It's a small, small world!