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To: Eric Yang who wrote (7441)	1/7/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 213173

<< <Secondly, how do you think the charge for QT Pro is going to fare in terms of producing revenue?> ... What Jobs has done is to first demonstrate the superior capability of QT, hype it and then ask people to pay for the R&D. It makes a lot more sense then giving it away for free. >> I disagree. Apple is very, very, very far away from being able to charge for software that hasn't yet set a standard. They were boneheads for charging for E.T.O. (except for the Tools part), they were boneheads back in the 1980s and early 1990s for charging developers license fees to bundle things like MacInTalk and MacTCP with their products, and they are still boneheads for charging to be a member of their developer program ($250 to (1) get a CD every month of stuff that's free at www.apple.com and (2) have the privilege of buying through their hardware program, which entails paying slightly above mail order prices and waiting six weeks for delivery for hardware that's obsolete by the time you get it). When will Apple get it into its head that delayed gratification in the computer world pays many times over? Bill Gates is proud of the fact that MSFT actually lost money on the first few versions of MS-DOS. I can buy one Windows C++ compiler for $100, download every Windows reference material and SDK on God's green Earth from MSFT's web site for free, and start making money right away developing for Win32. Apple, on the other hand, charges $$$$ for comparable items, making a developer feel as if the company really would prefer that he or she get lost.