Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!cambridge.apple.com!alms From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager) Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 19:23:05 GMT References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <459@amanue.UUCP> <20020@usc.edu> <1211@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <5068@ubc-cs.UUCP> <4312@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Sep23.021909.8835@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@cambridge.apple.com Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: allbery@NCoast.ORG's message of 23 Sep 89 02:19:09 GMT In article <1989Sep23.021909.8835@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: But in my posting that started this thread, my complaint was that I CAN NOW GET THE EQUIVALENT TECHNOLOGY FOR LESS from others. It's not as nice, but what makes it nice -- the software -- is not the expensive part. Software is the expensive part. Otherwise everyone would have software as good as the Mac's. But, companies like Atari and Commadore charge so little for their computers that they can't afford system software development. (Don't ask me why Microsoft/IBM can't do it. It's certainly not for lack of resources.) Apple doesn't sell the Finder and all the other system software. They have to make their money off the hardware sales. -andrew