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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New Apple Self-Help Tools
Message-ID: <51696@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 06:43:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.040127.5260@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <51554@apple.Apple.COM> <17258@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
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In article <17258@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>In article <51554@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>
>> buying them! When we asked around, we found out that customers didn't
>> think that such a package could be any good at that low of a price. So
>> Apple raised the price and the course started selling more briskly.
>
>Don't tell me, let me guess--you were talking to executives, not
>programmers, right?

Nope, we talked to real programmers. Most of them were ones that
attended classes at our Developer University (which should prove that
they were real programmers).

However, those people we talked probably respresent a cross-section of
the developer community that is different than the one on this net, to
wit: professional programmers with incomes, as opposed to starving
students with growing loans.

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