Re: Apple customers enraged at Idiot Tax!

KDT wrote:
On Sep 6, 9:50 pm, Steve de Mena <ste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
KDT wrote:
On Sep 6, 8:46 pm, Steve de Mena <ste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
KDT wrote:
On Sep 6, 6:00 pm, "MuahMan" <muah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Technology aficionados who rushed out to buy Apple's much-hyped iPhone
since its debut less than three months ago are expressing buyer's remorse
now that Apple has slashed the product's price by one-third. VOA's Michael
Bowman reports from Washington, the announcement of a revamped line of iPod
products has not bolstered Apple stock, which plunged more than five percent
Wednesday and continued to sink in trading Thursday."
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-06-voa57.cfm
Why are these people complaining. You are Jobs little bitches. He knows
you'll pay whatever price he sets no matter what the product. You paying 40%
more because you are a Mactard is par for the course. You paid the idiot
tax, now deal with it.
So what about all of the people paying for Vista "Premium"?
Sorry, don't see the analogy. Did the list price of Vista (any
version) go down 33% two months after its introduction?
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You don't think MS is taking advantage of market opportunities and
engaing in the same type of price discrimination (an economic term,
not a perjorative one) with the six different versions of Vista?
There seem to be six different variations of iPods now...flash, hard
disk, 1GB, 4GB, etc. Different sets of features, different price
points, just as with Vista.

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So I can just hack something in the $79 shuffle and make it a 16GB
iPod Touch? How much more does it cost to manufacturer a DVD with
Vista Basic than Vista Premium? Microsoft has higher margins on each
Vista license sold than Apple has on each iPod. So is MS price
gouging?


With your reasoning Final Cut Pro Studio should cost the same as iLife, as you are just looking at the media.

I disagree Microsoft has "higher margins", as you have completely left out their R&D costs out of the equation. Unbelievable.

BTW, all 32 bit versions of Vista come on the same DVD, it's the product key that activates the particular version.

Steve
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