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Date: Sun 17-Oct-1990 23:11:51 From: haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Haugeland) Subject: Re: Software prices (was Mac Emulator) glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >Adobe Illustrator will sell at exactly the same retail price as on the >Macintosh. Lotus Improv is about $595 (from memory). WordPerfect is >$495. FrameMaker is $995. TouchType, our product, is $249. >LightHouse's Diagram! is $249. Stone Design's TextArt is $375. > >There is plenty of affordable software, and most of the software is >being priced at "PC" prices, not at workstation prices. There is >plenty of very expensive software on the Macintosh, too. I'm not convinced that this answers the charge that NeXT software will be more expensive than for other platforms. After all, nobody in his or her right mind would pay list for Adobe Illustrator, Lotus 123, or Word Perfect; mail order prices are 50% to 60% of "retail". But if NeXT software is not carried by such competitive vendors, we may actually have to pay list price--in effect, almost double the real prices for other machines. Does anybody know anything about this, or have any ideas? John Haugeland haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu
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