[WS:] Please note the boutique pricing scheme - the "high end" (64GB w 3G) model costs $116 to produce, but its retail price is $330 higher. Functionally, Ipad is piece of shit in my opinion, far inferior to a netbook that sells for $270 but does not have a "boutique" appearance.
It is difficult not to see an appeal to snobbery/class status here, which shag mentions.
Wojtek
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> They want to prevent
>> prospective MacBook or Mac Mini customers from buying a $300 netbook
>> rather than an Apple product which costs at least two or three times
>> as much".
>
> A couple years ago, I thought about assembling an XPC instead of buying a Mac-mini. I spent a couple weeks researching parts, and found I couldn't put something together that was cheaper than a Mac-mini, by about $50.
>
> I also spent an afternoon in Zhongguancun about the same time, thinking I could get parts to build a really cheap laptop. Again, it was a little cheaper than an equivalent white 13" MacBook, but not so much that it was worth spending the money.
>
> So in my experience, you can get desktop PCs that outperform Macintosh computers for not-much-money, but when you come to smaller devices, which are all about integration, Apple has been pretty competitive on their pricing.
>
> So I'm skeptical of these claims that Apple charges 300-1000% markups ;-) on their merchandise.
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