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From: martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: develop, Dynamo, and life in general
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Date: 13 Feb 90 15:22:21 GMT
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*** In article <38552@apple.Apple.COM>,
*** mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
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>In article <-533196065@cpl-mfh.UUCP> martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman) writes:
>>
>>Since were on the topic of develop then maybe someone can straighten me out
>>I received my copy of it the other day and from my impression if you are
>>only a member of APDA and not a certified developer then you must pay $30 
>>for 4 issues a year.  How they can charge $30/year for 4 issues while
>>magazines like NIBBLE, the old PC_tech journal, Dr. Dobbs and such could
>>publish 12 issues a year for less than $30 is beyond me.  
>>
>
>Check out the advertising content and percentage of _d e v e l o p_ and
>other publications.  About 0% for _d e v e l o p_ and 60% for other
>publications.  You also receive a CD-ROM with every issue which contains
>a COMPLETE linked and cross-referenced archive of EVERY back issue.  For
>some people the price should have been closer to $50, but the Developer
>Press group kept it as reasonable as they could.
>
>-- 
>Mark B. Johnson                                            AppleLink: mjohnson
>Developer Technical Support                         domain: mjohnson@Apple.com
>Apple Computer, Inc.         UUCP:  {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson
>


I didn't realize the CD Rom was coming with each issue, but I reiterate my
previous reply to another poster, I have no desire to purchase a CD-Rom drive
for $900 or so.  To me a diskette with the current issues source code would
have more than sufficed.  Why have the diskettes been given to APDA so they
can cost additional monies.  It would have made more sense to place the
CD-Rom with Apda and it would not have to be updated so frequently.  Seems
to me Apple figures if it made $900 on the CD rRom it can afford not to 
make much profit on the CD's in develop, but if you haven't paid for the 
CD-rom then you can fork over additional money to get the code on diskette.
If Apple really wanted to support people then they would make develop
available with diskette, cd-rom, or just as a magazine and you could pay
for what you wanted.  Now I have to pay for a CD-Rom disk that I can't use 
and have no desire to or else I can fork over some more money to APDA for the
floppies.  The other magazines I mentioned have these types of options.

P.S.  I'm not flaming APPLE I'm just trying to understand the logic.


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