On 1/17/06 11:30 PM, Eric Schlegel didst favor us with:
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> The bottom line for me is that I believe Apple should have been up
>> front
>> with everything relating to this program so that *all* developers
>> -- large
>> and small, lots of money to spend or a little -- could make the best
>> decision possible.
>
> I have no inside information - but I consider it to be quite possible
> that we actually did not even have the plan to allow trade-ins until
> recently. It's entirely possible that Developer Relations didn't even
> know what exact type of Intel Mac would be introduced until recently
> - the hardware groups keep that information quite compartmentalized.
> Then again, maybe Developer Relations had this plan 9 months ago. I
> don't know - but neither do you. Don't assume. :)
I'm sure DR didn't have details on the hardware that would be available or
even when the first models would ship. But somehow the idea of giving away
new iMacs just doesn't seem like an afterthought. I can't help but believe
that they had something planned all along, be it an exchange like this,
credit toward a purchase, or some such thing, but didn't decide exactly what
they would do until more recently. In any case, what they did put people in
the position of making decisions without being able to consider an important
part of the equation.
Personally I still don't regret not getting a DTK. I don't really want an
iMac, as I much prefer using a PowerBook. But I would have liked to have
made my decision with more complete information, and I'm sure there *are*
developers out there who would have opted for the DTK had they known they
wouldn't just be left empty handed at the end. If I were one of those people
I'd *really* be miffed. ;-)
Larry
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