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From: breek@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Was there a fee for Certified Developers?
Message-ID: <362breek@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 26 Jan 89 08:43:10 GMT
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I would just like to know if there was a fee involved with being an Apple
Certified Developer, a now non-existant catagory. I have a partly-filled-out
application to become an A.C.D. at my elbow, but have read in the latest
APDAlog (the first under Apple's ownership) that the Certified Developer
program is being replaced by the Apple Partners program. They start the
notice out with the phrase "To improve its services to the developer
community" just to make you think something wonderful is going to happen, but
after telling you all the good news, they mention on the next page that it
will cost SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR! They also have a watered-down version
for in-house programmers and such for a mere $350/year. Either I almost made
a horrible mistake and applied for a program that would cost me two month's
rent a year, or Apple has decided it only wants to help people who can afford
that much for a fee. (Read the Scott Knaster article on page 19 for a
description of the sort of person Apple may wish to help at the exclusion of
all others).

Thanks for any info you can provide-

Lyle D. Gunderson,
Apple Probably-never-to-be-certified Developer
breek@byu