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From: topping@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (brian e. topping)
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Subject: TML Pascal II upgrade
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Date: 7 Feb 89 00:31:52 GMT
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I know how you feel about the TML prices going up after such a short period.
Before they shipped out those upgrade notices, I called in regard to what
the policies were going to be, and their response was quite interesting,
but also quite disturbing.  It seems that Applenomics has moved into more
areas of developer support than just ridiculous Certified Dev. prices and
higher MPW prices.  According to the person I spoke with at TML, Apple is now
requiring TML to buy the MPW Shell manuals and disks PREPRINTED.  This means
that TML not only has to accept whatever Apple charges for the stuff, they
also have to pay shipping for truckloads of MPW manuals from California to
Florida, just so TML can ship them back to you.  I am sure this is not helped
much by the fact that the shell manuals are supposed to be 2-3 times thicker,
a larger compiler manual, and a larger disk set for both products.

You know, I wonder if Apple marketing, with their pinstripe analysis of
supply and demand, has decided that, in order to raise prices for mac 
software they could lower supply by weeding out potential developers like
us.  Just a thought  :-(   -bri