Re: Apple tax on new iMac: fair or foul?
My first thoughts:
1. $95 out of $1849 is around 5%, not really gouging. See local retailers for examples of price gouging
2. The price gouge is technically in the headline price to start with rather than the translated one per se.
3. One area they can legitimately claim cost variations is anything that involves humans as Australian minimum wage is multiples of the American version.
4. The AUD is quite volatile and 5% seems acceptable padding.
There are many complaints one could make: shit spec, high base price, virtually unmodifiable, everything glued in place etc.
I think USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt are the greatest things to have happened in computer tech as it means that people can upgrade the main drive in these from slow spinning rust to a 1TB M550 and Apple can't prevent it. Memory is the only hold they really have - Intel already see to it with annual pin variations that CPU upgrades are off the menu.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
