Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Kreme From: Kreme@cup.portal.com (Lewis Kreme Butler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Piracy Message-ID: <18889@cup.portal.com> Date: 28 May 89 10:26:23 GMT References: <8905231040.aa00906@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 27 |Has it occurred to you that there IS A CONNECTION between the level of piracy |and the desertion of the Apple 2 market by large numbers of software |developers (who find the Apple 2 market unprofitable)? The Macintosh market |has a reputation of not only paying for the software but of having a |willingness to pay for "premium software." And from the vast expanse of Pirated Mac software, I would say it is a wholly undeserved reputation at that. The fact is, Mac wares are more profitable because there are COMPANIES using them that can't afford to pirate, so they shell out $400-600 dollars for Excell, Word, Pagemaker, or what have you. The fact is, most private users do not spend oodles of dollars buying wares, whether you believe it or not. That's why all those Word "help" books (they are really manuals) sell so well. Companies purchase, users "borrow." It all comes down to the fact that the Mac has a business base, and the apple does not. that is why Mac software does better in sales. Now if Apple games and software was all priced in the $20-30 (instead of 40-60), their sales would almost certainly triple. I know I would buy a lot more software if it wasn't so damned expensive! Kreme@cup.portal.com "The flutter of a butterfly's wings spawns the tornado" "Yeah, magic" "No, fractal mathematics." "Same Thing" -John Constantine