Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- Subject: Re: How ATTRACTIVE is CoCoa development?
- From: Bob Savage <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:04:03 -0600
on 1/27/02 4:15 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
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The educational institutions already have Windows PCs and Openstep
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Enterprise 4.2 worked fine on them. You could have the development tools
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and Windows at the same time. If a school wants to use Cocoa now, they must
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spend a minimum of $899 for Mac hardware to run it instead of $99 to run
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the Openstep development tools on the Windows machine they already have.
Every school I have been at since 1989 has had a Mac lab. EVERY one of them.
Education is considered the one market segment (outside of the arts) where
Apple is considered a market leader. So we deduct the $899 (actually $749 at
the education price) for the iMac they already have, and MacOSX came with
it, so we have free versus a hundred bucks.
It still looks to me like Apple is actively courting the educational
developer.
Bob