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There is an impression that Apple does this for you, for everyone, as a completely benign and sane sales point for which they go lengths to acchieve. It's fals
by dsirijus 14y ago
There is an impression that Apple does this for you, for everyone, as a completely benign and sane sales point for which they go lengths to acchieve.
It's false.
It's what YOU, the end consumer of Apple products, pay for - random people checking out their products. It's in YOUR price tag.
I personally don't like MY money being distributed that way.
- potatolicious 14y agoHow ridiculous. We can say the exact same thing about test drives, trial subscriptions, free samples at Costco, etc etc. Any type of "sampling", or indeed any marketing, can be said to be paying customers subsidizing non-paying customers. All of the above cases are completely absurd points to make, including in relation to Apple.
- dsirijus 14y agoI'm not downplaying that practice; of course it is common. What I do have trouble is the general sentiment that they go out of their way to help you, and it is just embedded in the price tag. And the blame for that is not even on Apple side - it's on you. And, like I've stated, I just PERSONALLY don't like it, as a general practice.
- forgottenpaswrd 14y agoI find this statement utter nonsense. The cost of an Internet line and some maintenance is negligible with the cost of the store itself. Apple sells much more laptops that anybody else per store square meter(from 10x to 100x) with a profit margin higher than anybody else. The cost are much smaller than the competence, with switched on pcs than nobody could use(password protected). It seems common sense it not so common after all.
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- dagw 14y agoHowever if doing all this means that they sell more laptops then they get better economies of scale and lower per item prices, which drives down the cost.
- dsirijus 14y agoTrue, also probably only to a certain extent. I have not really studied Apple, but last few years I have been checking out their laptop lines, I could only see cost increase of whatever is the current line.
- gnaffle 14y agoWhat cost increases? Hasn't the price stayed roughly the same, or gone down in the case of the MacBook Airs? The exception being when an entirely new product line has been introduced (like the Unibody MBPs and now the Retina MBPs).