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Originally Posted by Estuche
When I use the adjective "dirty" I do it as of "unsporting, dirty, foul, or violating accepted standards or rules (i.e., a dirty fighter)". Precisely because Apple is crushing the accepted standards of pricing set by the market it is forcing its competitors, just as you say, to either match their offerings or perish
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Dude, it's a totally different product. The iPad is not an eReader. It's just a 10" iPod. You say later in your post that you didn't mean to say that Apple was being "unfair" to the competition, but in this paragraph above, this is precisely what you are saying. What on earth is an "acceptable market pricing standard"? We here in the U.S., where Apple is located, live under a capitalistic system with anti-trust rules that effectively mean there is no "standard market pricing." You price your product however you want, and if you can make a profit, good on ya. You are suggesting that because the Kindle DX2 is priced at $489 and the Que is priced a couple hundred dollars higher, Apple is somehow beholden to that price structure and should therefore have priced their product by some acceptable sliding scale that is fair to everyone, otherwise they are breaking some kind of unspoken "rule" about pricing a product like this and are thereby "playing dirty." What you are saying just doesn't make any sense at all in our market system. Maybe in a more regulated, price-controlled environment, that might be the case, but not over where Apple is based. The only thing that can get you in trouble here in the U.S. is predatory pricing, but if you can demonstrate that you are indeed selling your product at a profit, predatory pricing is pretty hard to prove.