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Old 02-20-2010, 09:41 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by joblack View Post
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) ...
It's called "what the market will bear", or, plain and simple, capitalism. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it, then the price will come down. No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy this thing. Neither do you have a "right" to own it. Apple made it, they can charge whatever they want for it. They could charge $5000 for it, and that'd be cool. They wouldn't sell any of them at that price, but hey, if that's the tag they want to put on it, go for it.

It's kind of silly to get on a forum and complain about the price of a product that you do not need and will not change your life if you either do or do not get.

It's like people on this forum bitching about the price the publishing houses charge for their books. If you don't like the price, don't buy the book. Go read War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, or any of the other totally free examples of literature that were authored by someone who writes like they actually passed a 4th grade reading and writing class, as opposed to, say, the Dan Browns of our current mass-market book market.
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