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From: epan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric C. Pan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Phil & Dave, where are you?  All is forgiven: come home!
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Date: 12 Feb 90 08:38:57 GMT
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  Being an apple partner and someone who happened to have access to both a CD drive and Phil and Dave's Excellent CD vol II - the release version, I can offer some insights into the issue. Even though it's true that it probably only cost Apple $2 - $5 dollars to make the CD itself, I can understand why it's relucant torelease it in APDA, not to say public. As we all know, it includes SpInside Mac.That is what? $125 dollars of Inside Macintosh ... then it has all the system   and hypercard softwares - inclu



ding a variety of international softwares.. plus source codes and utility programs.... All that means is that it's informational value compared to apple's traditional pricing should be about $400+.

Now , let me ask you all, Are you willing to pay for that? Or do you think Apple will lower the price and offer competition to Addison-Wesley?

Also, I can't imagine how many silly phone calls the tech support will get on the foreign language systems....
   Now, APDA release will be reasonable. But like I've said, there will be a problem for Pricing.... but take my word for it... if you are serious about the Mac.... SpInside Macintosh is worth getting into Developer program, and buying a   high speed hard disk to put it on....