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The fact that Apple is even allowed to charge more than 100% markup is one of those tell tales signs of "you might be living in a suboptimal society when".
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
The fact that Apple is even allowed to charge more than 100% markup is one of those tell tales signs of "you might be living in a suboptimal society when".
- robertlagrant 3y agoSuboptimal compared to what optimal society?
- lsmeducation 3y agoA spiritual one.
- robertlagrant 3y agoCan you give an example?
- lsmeducation 3y agoSaudi Arabia
- robertlagrant 3y agoSaudi Arabia is a more optimal society? By what measures?
- lsmeducation 3y agoBy Allah’s measure. Jesus Christ, it was a joke. Are you sitting there refreshing for responses?
- robertlagrant 3y ago> Are you sitting there refreshing for responses? No, I just saw it at random. You replied 3 minutes after my response; far sooner than I replied to you.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoThe same one where advertisement for prescription-only drugs are not allowed on TV, politicians are forced to run on the merit of their party's platform and negative campaigning is illegal, where the housing market doesn't allow someone to "wait for a higher bid" when someone offers them asking price and rent bidding is illegal, and where health care is practiced in a way that actually helps people in a cheap and effective manner because that's your tax dollars at work. You know. A good society.
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- semicolon_storm 3y agoWhy? Apple is a “premium” offering and doesn’t have a monopoly in any area. If there was no other options I would agree
- Guvante 3y agoOnly if you use their definition of monopoly at minimum they form an Oligopoly in phones. (They repeatedly have claimed in court that all computing devices are the market they compete in with iPhone) If you are an Apple user what real choice do you have? The cost of switching is massive for established users as everything Apple only supports Apple. Sure an unaffiliated user can choose but once you are in one camp it requires a massive change to switch. They utilize this to raise their prices holding the difficulty to switch against their users. On a similar note they use heavy vertical integration to avoid options for users. You want their OS you need to buy their hardware. "Doesn't have a monopoly" only makes sense in a make believe world where you have 95% market share or enough competition.
- scarface_74 3y agoWhat massive costs of switching?
- Guvante 3y agoUnless you never touched the App Store there are real costs there and you could spend hours if not days transferring stuff. (Accounts cloud data etc.) Unless you get a new same manufacturer device and then it takes minutes and you keep everything.
- scarface_74 3y agoWhat “cloud data”? Most apps that are available for iOS are also available for Android and are subscription based these days. Copying data from iCloud Drive to another cloud provider like Google Drive can be done in the Files App. Music you bought has been DRM free since 2009. Apple works with MoviesAnyWhere. Four or five of the major studios participate too. Meaning any movie you buy from one of the participating studios can be synced to Amazon Movies, Google Play Movies (or whatever it’s called these days), Vudu etc. Photos can be synced to Google Photos, Dropbox, OneDrive. Bookmarks can be synced between Chrome and Firefox and Safari if you have a Windows PC using Apple’s extension for those browsers.
- photonerd 3y agoThat’s just basic capitalism
- astrange 3y agoNo product price has anything to do with its production costs except that it's usually, but not always, higher.
- lm28469 3y agoThe price is part of why they sell so well