Don't get me wrong, I really think what Paul has done is great. However, I
was expecting a price at around $30 or so. $50 just feels high. My mind
may change when I see the latest and greatest and I will admit that it may
be a bit unfair to him to judge his product based on a "preview" copy. :)
on 4/1/02 7:54 PM, Jim Witte at jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us wrote:
> $50 !! I hope you mean that seems cheap, not that it seems
> expensive. $50 seems very cheap to me. Consider that if the Newton
> were still alive, and by some miracle Apple had not done there own ATA
> drivers by now, and some third-party company did what Paul did (probably
> with about a third as much work because they'd be able to muscle
> internal information out of Apple), they'd probably charge at *least*
> $100 (99.95 actually ;-) for it. True, the price comes out to about $70
> (75Eu) for an multiple-Newton license with the API, but I still consider
> that to be not much, considering that Paul's been working on this for at
> least a year, killed two Newton's in the process (well, probbaly not
> *completely* killed, but certainly not revivable without technology that
> we don't have like a external flasher..)
>
> Way to go Paul,
> Jim
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