Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!indri!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: APDA Price reducations Message-ID: Date: 7 May 89 19:47:45 GMT References: <1084@orbit.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 > *Excerpts from ext.in.info-apple: 6-May-89 Re: RE: APDA Price reducations* > *Shawn Stanley@ucbvax.ber (982)* > LWELCH@COLGATEU.BITNET writes: > >The most recent APDAlog talks for a little while about how it has reduced > >prices for items on the Apple // and Mac technical notes. But, the only > >actual price reduction is in the 1989 Disk version of the Technical notes > >from $25 to $20. All of the other Apple // item prices seem to have stayed > the > >same as they have been since Apple took APDA over. These new APDA prices are > >about 2 to 3 times what APDA used to charge when it was independent. I wish > >Apple had not taken over APDA. Everything was much cheaper before & they did > >about everything APDA does now. > I think Apple has really hurt APDA by taking it over and deciding to be > non-competetive in their pricing. I wish they'd at least match Tech Alliance > with the products they have in common, while bringing down the prices on the > products that you just can't find anywhere else. If there are no price discounts, and everything available from APDA can be obtained from other sources (like tech notes) what is the point in spending one's hard earned cash on APDA? The newsletter is not all that great for the money they want for it, and just joining APDA doesn't make you a "certified developer." That costs *more* money. I cannot see for the life of me what ADPA is good for anymore now that Apple has acquired it. I've heard complaints that customer service has gone down the tubes, and the prices are almost prohibitive for students like myself. Apple's acquisition, despite their well-documented reasons for doing so, has IMHO ruined ADPA and made it just another arm of Apple's corporate bureacracy where once it was an independent creative entity. Seriously, what's it good for anymore? jeremy mereness ============= jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arpanet) r746jm7e@CMCCVB (vax.... Bitnet)