Re: In Retrospect.....

[stevewhite@spammers.are.scum.com (Steve White)]

In article <35b0e6dd.0@news.nauticom.net>, kloesch@nauticom.net (Kevin
Loesch) wrote:

>         If you really believe this then you have no idea what the current 
> commercial software market is like. Dozens of software companies are biting 
> the dust every month in the booming PC market. How the hell do you think 
> anyone would have the chance of making it in the long dead Apple 2 market? 
> These few remaining developers that are whining about piracy killing their 
> products don't want to admit or face the truth, that they made an extremely 
> stupid business decision by trying to make money on the Apple II. 


Depends on the scale. Some developers still make money on the C64/C128.
Depends on the size of the potential market. Lots of schools still use
Apple II's.

Piracy shrinks a market, whatever the initial size of the market. That's
simple economics.





steve



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