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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Phil & Dave, where are you?  All is forgiven: come home!
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Date: 8 Feb 90 17:50:42 GMT
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In article <1990Feb7.234134.5010@Neon.Stanford.EDU> 
philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
> I've never been able to understand this APDA thing. Why doesn't Apple
> distribute development software through regular stores (OK, as well as
> through APDA, if there are a lot of products that wouldn't sell in
> sufficient volume to be carried by a retailer). And, for that matter,
> why restrict certain products to various categories of certified
> developers? Who REALLY gains from all this?
> 
> Philip Machanick
> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu

Well, here's my personal interpretation:

First of all, almost NONE of anything sold by APDA would sell in enough 
quantities to make it worth a dealer's while.  The one exception to this 
seems to be the literature, which generally can be found at any of the 
larger bookstores.

The obvious (to me, anyway) reason for restricting certain materials to 
certain categories of developers is to make it worthwhile to BE one of 
those certain levels of developers.  As for why we don't just support 
EVERYONE doing development, that's the easy part: there are about 35 of us 
here in MacDTS, and about 6,000 Apple Partners.  Think about that for a 
minute.

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