On 1/18/06 7:46 AM, Jim Correia didst favor us with:
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 1:27 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>>> Personally, I'm just happy for those that bought the DTK are getting
>>> something other than a $999 hole in their wallet.
>>
>> I'm afraid I've been misunderstood. I'm happy for those people too.
>> I'm just
>> less than happy for the people who would have gotten one if they
>> had known
>> how it would turn out but didn't because they took what Apple said
>> at face
>> value.
>
> It doesn't take too much of a stretch to interpret this move as Apple
> making good on their initial promise.
>
> As I recall (I don't have the original material in front of me) your
> $999 got you a transition kit that you could use to developer Intel
> version of your software through the middle/end of 2006. Due to
> changes required for the production hardware, 10.4.4 doesn't run on
> the DTK machines. In order to make good on their promise that you'd
> have a machine to develop on through the end of 2006, they have to a)
> give you new hardware or b) maintain 10.4.4 such that it runs on
> prototype hardware that no one (besides developers) will ever see.
> The former is also a nice carrot to get the prototype systems back to
> Apple in a timely manner.
Oh sure, that part makes perfect sense to me. Another problem it solves is
that there may have been -- and probably were -- changes in the architecture
(which is why they can't be upgraded to 10.4.4) that would limit their
usefulness to developers. So really they almost had to replace them with
some shipping model. The issue is that the replacements don't have to be
returned, which would have made a difference in some people's decision not
to get a DTK. I know I certainly would have been much more likely to get a
DTK had I known it would be replaced with something I could keep, or even
gotten a hefty discount toward the purchase of a release model. But the
rental fee option was never an option for some of us.
Larry
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