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I wish people would stop using the term “overpriced”. Apple sets the price. Their sales targets and subsequent results dictate whether they have priced it appro
by thebruce87m 7y ago
I wish people would stop using the term “overpriced”. Apple sets the price. Their sales targets and subsequent results dictate whether they have priced it appropriately. We will probably never know if it was overpriced.
But we already have a word to describe something that costs a lot: expensive. Really we should be asking if it is good value for money.
- cyphar 7y ago> Really we should be asking if it is good value for money. Which is what the term "overpriced" is almost always referring to. Overpriced is not a synonym of expensive.
- thebruce87m 7y agoI guess I’ll have to get used to people using terms such as this one, “on accident” etc.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoAccording to Merriam-Webster, "overprice" is a word that has been in use since at least 1576 and has always meant "to price too high (relative to its perceived value)". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overprice https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overprice
- thebruce87m 7y agoGood info. I wonder if the feeling of “nails on a blackboard” will go away whenever I read it now that I know.