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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Mac Osx.2 Post 29596 by saabir on Wednesday 9th of October 2002 05:59:41 AM

10-09-2002

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I would agree with LivinFree that OS X is definately something to get excited about - and more than that, it is actually a practical and stable operating system with some great features.

However speaking from the UK (I can't really comment on the situation in the US) I think Apple are making the same mistake that they consistently seem to make - they are not making the product available enough. I am basically referring to their pricing strategy, in a market where there are very cheap, relatively powerful, PC's - Apple just do not seem to be pursuing an aggressive enough pricing regime.

We all know that the G3 or G4 computers are leagues ahead in terms of technical and functional superiority - but Apple falling into the same 'Beta-Max vs VHS' mistake they always seem to slide into. A technically superior product with a poor promotion/pricing campaign will rarely out-do a technically inferior product with a better promotion/pricing campaign. It's all about the basic three P's (Pricing, Promotion, Packaging) and Apple seem to be neglecting the Pricing and Promotion aspect of this Business model once again.

I've known scores of people vociferously interesting in purchasing hardware that can run the new OS X 10.2 - to be put off at the last hurdle when the economic reality hits them. Fair enough the point can be made that anyone sufficiently interested in OS X will find the extra cash to purchase the goods - however this isn't going to do anything for pushing the product to widest possible customer base.

OS X is an excellent OS. But the average Joe in the street will not appreciate that until it becomes economically viable for the hardware to be purchased by the average customer which is the bread and butter of the domestic PC market.

Once again I remind eveyone that this is a uniquely British take on the issue. So come on Apple - get the promotion and pricing into step so people realise just what a fantastic product OS X is. Long live Jaguar!

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PERLMACOS(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					      PERLMACOS(1)

NAME

       README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)

SYNOPSIS

       This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic).  If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be here (unless you
       are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X).

       When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS X.

DESCRIPTION

       The latest perl source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl is
       kept in close sync with regular perl releases.

       To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition of the macos subdirectory, distributed separately.  It includes extra
       source files, config files, and make files.  It also includes extra Mac-specific modules.

       To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the macperl directory, which includes the source files for creating the application
       itself.

       All of this is available from the development site, via HTTP (in the MacPerl Installer, which includes all the source and binaries) and
       anonymous CVS.

	       http://dev.macperl.org/

       The source is also in the main perl repository in the macperl branch (the 5.6 source is in the maint-5.6/macperl branch).

       You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely available.  These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site for
       all things having to do with MacPerl development.

       MacPerl 5.6.1 and later are supported on Mac OS 8.1 and later, for 68040 and PowerPC architectures.  The MPW tool may be used on Mac OS
       7.5.5 and 68030 computers.

       MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is also available, on the CPAN and on SourceForge.  It is based on perl 5.004, and works with Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 com-
       puters.

AUTHOR

       perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher <neeracher@mac.com>.  It is currently maintained by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>.

DATE

       Last modified 2002.05.02.

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