Actually, this seems to be a classic "end of the Empire move."
Back when the BeOS was in their heyday, their stock hit $35 a share, and their
developer support was as good as Palm's is now (back
when Palm support was much more primitive.)
But once BeOS prospects really started to really decline, after they failed to take
the Windows market and their stock fell to
pennies a share, they switched from awesome free support to charging a flat $200 an
hour for email help.
Apple went through several "screw the developer" phases during their up and down
periods. Sometimes companies get that crazed look
in their eye while fighting for their own survival and they sell all their calfs.
(Any farmers out there?)
But anyway, I've had tons of fun with this but I choose to believe the optimistic view
that they are not going to kil the forum and
just kill direct tech help.
Ken Davidson wrote:
> > > Basic Membership - This annual membership offers access to the only
> > > searchable technical support database for the Palm OS. Just $100 per
> > > year allows 24/7 access to thousands of FAQs with hundreds more
> > > added each month.
>
> > Pay $100 to access a database? Someone must be joking ....
>
> Have you seen Palm's stock price lately?
>
> When I read the message, I got the impression that some genius in
> marketing saw 10,000 developers and said, "Imagine the money we could
> make if we charged these people to write code for our platform."
> Shareware and freeware authors make precious little money for their time
> as it is. How many do you think are going to fork over that kind of
> money and continue to use this platform? Commercial authors, maybe. But
> there are far fewer of those around.
>
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Ken Davidson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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