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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beta and E.T.O. (Apple crispies)
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.112326.7404@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Feb 91 11:23:26 GMT
References: <49117@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Feb13.131117.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> <49212@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <49212@apple.Apple.COM> jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes:

***FLAME ON***
In article <49212@apple.Apple.COM>, jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes
>  The overhead involved in doing a beta version through APDA is considerable and
>makes beta's [...] pretty much the same price as a final.
>  Instead of doing betas through APDA, I have been moving to putting beta out
>on E.T.O.
This strategy is at best misguided, but I am waxing flambescent because I feel
it intentionally provides a misservice to the developer community.
>  If you are a leading edge developer, who would use beta products, then E.T.O.
>is the product for you.  For $300.00 a year, you stay current with the latest
>and greatest from Apple.  I highly recommend that you take the plunge, along
>with a lot of other developers, and go for E.T.O.
I do not have a CD-ROM drive (I did for six months but never opened the box)
but what is wrong with using the develop disks?  They cost $30/yr, right?
For $300/yr, I highly recommend that you put finals on E.T.O.  How can we
justify such a cost for unfinished software, just because there is room
on the media?  How can we justify the time to wade through and discover
what is worth our time to use?
***FLAME OFF***
Marketing is a black art, motivated by a desire to stay in the black.  We
need to push some of the 'black marketeers' not into the red, but into the
pink, where everyone is happy, healthy, and hopefully horny.
-- 
Laird J. Heal                           With fiends like us
Here:  laird@chinet.chi.il.us		who needs enemas?