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Actually, the parent poster has a heck of a good point. A large majority of OSNews regulars come from English-speaking countries and some make some weird assumptions about the rest of the world.

As anyone outside the US and some wealthier countries on Europe knows, Apple products are ridiculously overpriced for what they are. And when people living on wealthy countries complain about the price, I guess that it is obvious we're talking about niche prices for everybody else here. It has better to be a premium product, which clearly it is not in Apple's case.

I am not talking about iPods and iPhones as these, for the time being, do have something that make them stand out slightly from the competition (although there are times that I wish I had a cheaper brand music player instead of an iPod Touch so that I could use it easily with Amarok without having to resort to hacks that don't always work). I am talking about Mac desktops and laptops, that these days are made of the same components found on any brand name offering but that they will charge you an arm and a leg for it.

OSX is a nice OS and I realize that it does have some great features, like better accessibility than Windows and FOSS desktop environments which might be an important reason for some people among a few other things but then people should come out straight and say that they're actually paying a higher price because of OSX and drop the "Apple makes better hardware" line because it is bullshit.

Kaiwai stated clearly that he does not care for the prices charged anywhere other than on NZ and that a English-speaking helpdesk tailored specifically for his kiwi accent was a must as if those requirements were the same for everybody else. It might be true for him but to use that to justify Apple's prices is ridiculous and gets tiring after a little while...