I wouldn't say their prices are ridiculous but they are definitely too high IMO. I'm more concerned about people's income than the price of things though. I heard an interview a while back where a guy said if Americans wanted to rebuild the manufacturing base, they'd have to pay more for things like iPhones. If they made iPhones in California and Mexico instead of China they would cost 50% more. It's the Wallmart problem, people like $12 t-shirts.funky shit wrote:nylarch wrote:They better care - thats changing fast. I work in a large Financial Services org and Googles making inroads and MacBookPros popping up everywhere in dev departments....executives are getting iPhones and wanting to use them for work as well...I'm really surprised how much traction Apple is starting to make in the Enterprise world...didn't think it would happen but I'm psyched. Will be working on a MBP with 250GB SSD in a week or two.they fall flat by having 95% market share, or 20x as much as apple. why should they really care?
no real threats untill apple lower their rediculous prices.
That said, everything does cost too much. Fender guitars went way up last year, hundreds of dollars more. I looked at this thing called a Voicelive that Fever Ray uses, it's $500, $800 for the new version. The price of milk didn't even go down during the recession. Look at the price of jeans, most of them are too trendy and flashy for me. I would never shell out $180 but I got a pair of Ernest Sewn jeans for half off and I'm not kidding, I feel like a million dollars in those damn jeans. I know mac haters don't believe it but Apple makes nice gear, and nice costs a lot. More than ever. Plus they invent the thing so they create the market. The personal computer got away from them and you can tell they aren't going to let the same thing happen with the phone and iTunes, thus the whole App thing to keep their product dynamic. You gotta admit, they know what they're doing. Would I prefer open source, yeah, but then again I like reading the New York Times on my phone while listening to Sound on Sound podcasts. Apple made that happen- technologically and culturally- not Dell, not Microsoft, not Sony. There is value in that, but will we create enough good paying jobs so more people can afford such luxury, that's the question I have. Income more than price.
i like the single-charge-24h laptop for people really on the go. or the one with a colour-adjusted screen with colour-correctness for any form of art-workers (which is really something a macbook pro should have since years, as they are for the 'artsy' people), etc..
) - it was awesome, really rugged, ran Win2K, never let me down, great battery life, I tweaked the hell out of it and it ran really streamlined and reliably. In short, it was an engineer's laptop for engineers. Which, unfortunately, is not what the kids care about... HP is sexy for engineers and people who don't buy into slick adverts, but that's an ever-diminishing minority... 
