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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: APDA - any satisfied customers?
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 13:06:40 EST
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>I for one am not renewing my membership for APDA. Why?

I just did. Not for the products.

>1) Their prices for 3rd party products are higher than many mail-order houses
>2) Their freight charges are outrageous - mail-order houses are *much* cheaper

About these, I don't knw. Living down the street from Computerware means I
don't pay much attention to mail order.

>To anyone considering joining APDA, don't, unless you *have* to get MPW or
>any other Apple products. 

Or unless you need Apple documentation, Apple pre-release documentation or
software, or any of the other stuff that Apple Developers need on a timely
basis. Like the HyperCard documentation for XCMD/XCFN. Or pre-release of
Inside Mac Vol. 5. Or beta releases of Apple software.

Look at the focus. ADPA's set up primarily to get Apple stuff out to
developers. From my experience, it does that quite well. I've never suffered
a major delay, I've never had an order problem. The third party stuff, the
commercial products, those are nice to have, but that's not what APDA's all
about -- those are added services. You can get most of those things through
MacTutuor, too, which is a magazine. Or mail-order stores. 

If that stuff isn't as competitive as you'd like, fine. Don't order it. But
for what APDA does as its primary focus, it's irreplacable. If you don't
need it, don't join APDA. As lnog as I have my Mac, I'll be a member.

chuq

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Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM	Delphi: CHUQ