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Originally Posted by holymadness
Just so we're clear, you're blaming Apple for Google's pricing strategy?
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To an extent.
Consumers, even more. Hence the quote. What people accept meekly becomes the definition of what is acceptable.
As long as people are willing to overpay for storage, whether for Apple or Google, *everybody* will feel able to do the same.
BTW, over at CNET, Carnoy is not-quite-ranting over Apple's pricing:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7...a-ipad-memory/
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Retina Display aside, my problem with the iPad Mini -- and why I'm kvetching (bring on the "Would you like some cheese with your whine?" comments) -- is the $100 Apple charges for going from 16GB to 32GB, plus another 100 bucks to go from 32GB to 64GB. (The $130 premium you pay for the Wi-Fi + cellular models is the subject for another article).
Of course, it has every right to charge whatever it wants and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Apple makes its biggest margins on the memory bumps across its entire line of iOS products. After all, they're the same products; they just have more memory.
I can understand paying a nice premium over what you'd typically pay for flash memory, but it gets a little ridiculous when you're paying five times what you'd normally pay. Sure, you can say the memory in Apple devices is higher grade than your basic flash memory. But the breakdowns iSuppli has done of the iPad 2 and third-gen iPad show that the bump from 16GB to 32GB costs Apple about $17. It's another $34 or so to go from 32GB to 64GB. According to iSuppli, 64GB of NAND flash memory runs around $67 -- or at least it did this past March.
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Apple provides pricing cover for Google, just as the BPH's high ebook prices provide cover for their competitors. As long as consumers pay the higher prices willingly there is no incentive for either of them to change.