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Originally Posted by joblack
If you compare it with other companies Apple is getting an unusual profit margin. Even if you just check out the total profit before taxes Apple makes over 30 % profit over volume of sales. That's ripping people of (the same is with Intel by the way) ...
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Apple, and really no company is "ripping" people. The exception would be a monopoly, or a closed economic system. If you do not think their products are worth the price, I would suggest you don't buy them. It is a free choice in a free market economy. To me a Cadillac is just an over priced piece of junk. But the people that buy one are not being "ripped off", they are buying, and getting, what they want. Not my business, or my problem.
My Sony PRS-300 cost me $180. All it does is display text for me to read. I got Kindle for iPhone and PC for free. So why did I pay for what I can easily get for free? Because as a consumer in a free market economy I can buy what I can afford to, and not have to justify it to anyone. If I choose to buy 20 iPads and use them as paper weights, no one is ripping me off. Again, I am buying, and getting, what I want...