Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: CD's Message-ID: <38735@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 18 Feb 90 20:39:11 GMT References: <0ZqqDaC00UgyM0dHYo@andrew.cmu.edu> <12166@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24 In article gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: > >> What IS your problem? If you weren't paying everyone in the distribution >> channel, what makes you think they would still work to get the CD to you? > > I certainly realize that, but my point is, it's cheaper to make a CD >than a tape, but you still get charged a hell of a lot more... > > -Greg T. Having been involved with several musical organizations that could afford to create cassette tapes and even LP records, but not CDs, I'd like to see some justification for the statement that CDs are cheaper to produce than cassettes. To me they definitely have more value, but I believe cassettes are by far cheaper to mass-produce. Let's back this stuff up with figures, if anyone can. (Do it in mail if you like to not waste any more net bandwidth on this topic.) -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions represented here are Developer Technical Support, Apple II | not necessarily those of Apple Group. Personal mail only, please. | Computer, Inc. Remember that." ============================================================================