Charge more for your product?
Dance/Sing/Perform on a street corner?
Or apply for a $120 dollar business loan?
Heh. I'll purchase Tiger when I feel like continued development of
Apple Java apps isn't going to be a headache.
Well by then Apple will likely be on the next cat (maybe even on some
other animal by then...)
:)
On a serious note...
I know a lot of folks dismiss getting a "Select" level ADC membership
[1] as to expensive ($500 per year) but I wanted to point it isn't
really that expensive if you factor in what you get.
- You also get DVDs of the shipping version of Mac OS X and Mac OS X
Server major releases (for development use). In other words saves you
$129+ for client or $499+ for server (assuming a major release comes
out during your membership subscription). This is not clearly stated
in the membership write up but always done historically to date.
- You get access to the ADC Hardware Purchase Program [2] for the
purchase of a single system (system includes laptop/xserve/all-in-one/
cpu + peripherals). So say you buy the low end Mac mini, keyboard,
mighty mouse, and 20" cinema display you get a discount of about
$104. If you buy the low end Power Mac (comes with keyboard and
mouse) and 20" cinema display you get a discount of about $480.
- You get 5 software seed keys. You can distribute these among others
at "your company". These keys give you access to seed / developer
previews for both major and minor revisions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X
Server as well as for other items (Java, Xcode, Xsan, etc.).
- You get credit for 2 technical support incidents. These can be a
life saver for a project if you hit a roadblock that out need Apple's
direct assistance with.
- ...and a few other things...
In other words such a membership can pay for itself by giving you
access to major revision (10.3, 10.4, etc.) of Mac OS X and Mac OS X
Server. Also it can pay for itself with the discount you get buying
hardware.
