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Claris Pricing Scandal (9/22/97)
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Faithful reader Norman Ackerman points out something noteworthy going on over at Claris. Seems that the Apple-owned software company has seen fit to charge Mac users more than Windows users for the same software. Norman refers us to the Claris price list, where indeed you yourself may verify that Mac users pay a premium over their Windows-using cronies. How much of a premium? Try $20 for ClarisWorks 5.0, or $70 for ClarisDraw.

What's up with this? Well, a more reasonable site might assume that perhaps Claris sells more Windows software than Mac software, so they must charge a higher price on the Mac titles to make the same profit. Or they might guess that Claris is fighting the good fight, and trying to get more of its alternatives to Microsoft wares into PC-stronghold businesses. Us? We just figure the whole thing's a big conspiracy. Remember that Apple-Microsoft agreement back in early August? There was a little more going on there than meets the eye. Wink wink.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/22/97 episode:

September 22, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

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  • 12: A Little Slow (9/22/97)   Macintouch has a link to a San Francisco Examiner article in which ex-cast member Gil Amelio (remember him? He used to play Apple CEO) finally starts to catch on. Gullible Gil has apparently finally started to realize that maybe, just maybe, Steve Jobs had something to do with his being thrown off the show last July. Yay, we're all on the same page again!...

  • 13: Video Feedback (9/22/97)   MacNN reports on a new Mac-based web site. "As the Apple Turns is a new daily web site that follows the latest "angst-soaked news and rumors from the wild and woolly world of Apple...in an effort to compile the more dramatic pieces of information from the more prominent Mac news sites and present them in the context they seem to... ...whoops, we've gone self-referential...

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