Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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Hi Versu,
So if the US doesn't have VAT then the price difference should be around 18% i guess...but it's not, in extreme cases it's around 38%! crazy!
I understand what you say about the dollar being undervalued, but that is just a reason why the price in euros should have been reduced!, it is not...
I guess apple considers europe to be a niche market in it's own niche(!). Marketing-wise it's just an opportunity to get higher margins without any serious investment. Just see how in Europe the education sector is absent from any campaigns from Apple.
I now see that even the "design people" has been changing from Mac to white box pcs, the price difference is so great that the change becomes inevitable. Only the geek crowd is getting very interested, and that is a bad sign IMHO.