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The "Apple Dollars" you have in your iTunes account from gift cards are no more "real" than Amazon Coins.
by teej 14y ago
The "Apple Dollars" you have in your iTunes account from gift cards are no more "real" than Amazon Coins.
- ricardobeat 14y agoAt least it's a (nearly) 1:1 rate.
- Jtsummers 14y agoThis seems to be as well, just multiply the USD amount by 100 or divide the Amazon Coin amount by 100.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoTaking it out of USD and changing the units around (even though it's just dropping a decimal point) mentally disassociates 'Amazon Coins' from USD. Microsoft goes even further on the Xbox, 1 USD (+ local sales tax) buys 80 MSP; so it takes a moment to realize an 800 MSP game is actually $10.
- kevinpet 14y agoI've seen this many other places. They seem to intentionally choose hard-to-calculate multiples. No one ever sets them at 10 or 100 to the dollar.
- callmeed 14y agoThey are less abstract. My 8 year old's iTunes balance has a $ in front of it. She understands it.
- stock_toaster 14y agoIt is more like a credit balance though, and not a virtual currency. Purposefully, I imagine, to make accounting/taxes more straightforward.