RunRev Pricing

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>> But as for getting going with Mac, I believe all Mac versions are 
>> included in the Mac license, which would mean both OS X and the older 
>> Classic.   I can't imagine RunRev would charge separately for the 
>> defunct OS 9.
>>
>> -- 
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World Media Corporation
> 
> 
> I was going to let this remark pass, but we have a mixed bag of readers 
> on the list and it comes as a bit of surprise to hear it from you, 
> Richard. OS9 may be defunct but last January Steve Jobs stated that OSX 
> accounts for only (well, he said already) 40% of Mac users. For 
> marketting, the technical proveness of a system is less relevant than 
> the size of that market segment and it seems that majority of Mac users 
> are still with the older platform. That is quite a few people. May be 
> your products are addressed to the upper group which switched, but this 
> is not true in general. W98 has been defunct even longer and it is still 
> fully supported by most software vendors (granted, it is somewhat easier 
> than in case of OS9/OSX).

I'm just preaching the Steve gospel.  A majority of Mac sales across all 
products I manage are still for Classic.  Maybe I should have used 
"retired" rather than "defunct".  Beyond that, please don't shoot the 
messenger: it's Apple pushing to get rid of Classic, not me.  I rather 
like OS 9.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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