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I just want someone to explain the $99 stylus. What's so special about it?
by zxcvcxz 11y ago
I just want someone to explain the $99 stylus. What's so special about it?
- roymurdock 11y agoIt's like the $80 magsafe charger. Thing probably costs $3 to manufacture and distribute, but good luck using your macbook without one. Simple price gouging, but most customers are happy to pay.
- adevine 11y ago> Simple price gouging, but most customers are happy to pay. Also known as "economics".
- outworlder 11y agoIt doesn't cost $3. Not even an iPad charger costs are that low. Of course, no brand chargers made in China could reach that price point but one just have to do a Hacker News search to figure out what they are sacrificing.
- Gracana 11y ago$80 is definitely too much, but fwiw there is a difference between Apple's chargers and the $3 aftermarket competition: http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...
- ctdonath 11y agoSomeone did a detailed comparison between the $19 Apple 500mW cube charger vs a no-name $4 lookalike. Short version: the former is an engineering marvel of efficiency, compactness, and safety ... while the latter is likely to kill someone. You may not appreciate the "diminishing returns" of increased quality for increased price, but Apple's bottom line shows a great many do.
- FireBeyond 11y agoYeah, there's also a fairly healthy middle ground between engineering "marvels" and "what is the utterly cheapest piece of crap I can find on eBay". (btw, there are a lot of complaints, including from me, about plenty of flaws with Apple chargers - I've had two sheathes come apart so they look like paper lanterns exposing bare wire beneath them)
- SunShiranui 11y agoMy experience (and that of most people I know) with Apple chargers is that they break all the time despite the utmost care. I would hardly call that an engineering marvel. Edit: I should be more specific - I wasn't referring to the chargers themselves, but rather their cables.
- 72deluxe 11y agoMine is 3 years old and is OK other than a few cat chew marks. I can't understand what other people do with their hardware - it always look like they've played football with it or left their dog to chew it, sit on it, dribble on it or left it outside in the rain. Always very odd.
- therein 11y agoOh come on, that's such a sweeping generalization. Just because someone compared Apple's cube charger with one of thousands of knockoffs and found that the Apple charger actually adhered with the safety regulations does not mean that Apple's accessories are appropriately priced due to their quality. It doesn't even mean the charger deserves the $19 price tag. How about the iPhone 6 docks, are they also a marvel of engineering? Are their prices justified?
- jakeva 11y agoHe or she didn't claim they were 'appropriately priced' and since such a claim is subjective to begin with nobody is forcing you to pay for things you feel are too expensive. Buy whatever you want. His or her argument seems to be, and I would agree, that the quality is higher with an Apple charger. If you don't feel the price corresponds, that's totally fine with everyone involved.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoWell, it's twice as expensive as the existing chargeable force sensitive Pencil for iPad made by another company.
- baq 11y agoand the worst part is that the Pencil will probably lose half of its business.