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Re: pricing + apology
> As for the objections to our proposed $700 price for a full blown runs everything under
>the sun emulator, our intent is at that time to offer educational discounts and also to offer
>crippled, application specific versions (in addtion, by then we will be selling through
>distributors, which will boost our sales and help the NeXT community grow, but will result
>in a lower profit per unit sold). Currently, Executor-MSW is application specific due to our
>prioritizing of bug fixes. When we have the real thing out we hope to still have products
>out that are in the current price range. Details remain to be worked out but it would be
>something like a general emulator that *doesn't* run any of the top 25 applications for $100
>or less with the idea that for more money you can be enabled to run more applications. I
>can't make any promises because there are some pretty large companies concerned with
>macintosh compatibility and the market forces are pretty overwhelming.
>
I don't suppose I have any objections to a $700 price for the
"full-blown" emulator... the important thing to me is that there
be some reasonable upgrade policy. I haven't seen anything out
of ARDI (other than the promise of a free upgrade to the first
version that supports printing) regarding any upgrade path to
get from Executor-MSW to the more advanced versions. I guess
what I'm saying is I don't want to end up paying $1000 to get
the $700 emulator.
[ By the way, Cliff, you might want to narrow up your margins a
bit when you post. Many people read mail on 80-column terminals,
and anything beyond that either gets truncated or wrapped in
an unpleasant fashion. ]
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