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Originally Posted by afv011
It is definitely overpriced when you consider apple have over 50% margin, but when people are willing to queue for days to throw their money at apple, you can't blame them for riding the wave and milking their customers dry; apple is a marketing genius. Mind you, most tablets are overpriced, but not by as much as only apple has the economy of scales.
And this margin is greater with the larger capacity models - really, $100 for an extra 16GB?
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Of course they keep the prices artificially high. They have to pay for all the lawsuits they are filing to ensure they can monopolize the market and maintain the artificially high price in the first place. I have purchased Apple in the past, but I refuse to do further business with a company that discourages competition through continuous frivolous litigation. Some of these stories would almost be laughable if they weren't so ridiculous,
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/...ast/index.html
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/a...75?tag=nl.e550
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/12...ts-and-phones/
http://blog.inner-active.com/2012/01...eve-jobs-face/
http://articles.businessinsider.com/...ent-violations
http://www.electronista.com/articles...sung.expanded/