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Sep 12, 2017
4:14:40pm

Nat Gas Man All-American

This is exactly why I am in favor of a VAT....They have reached the edge of the

price point...same as it was in 1989. Granted they are pretty and do lots of stuff...but the diminishing demand at that price pushes the envelope. The problem is the $500 margin that Apple makes....nobody needs to rake customers that much. A 10% VAT tax would likely be eaten up mostly by Apple since customers wouldn't pay an extra 10% on top of their $1000 price point.

Or they could move the manufacturing to the US and get around the VAT

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Nat Gas Man

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Apple are criminals

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:09pm

They are forcing people to make them into the first trillion dollar company.

Cougar-Duck

9/12/17 1:11pm

Who wouldn't want to pay $70 for a lightning cord

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:12pm

If you mean the included lightning to 3.5mm adapter - it’s not $70. It’s free.

Cougar-Duck

9/12/17 1:15pm

Ah, is that what free means?

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:16pm

then don't

spugeddy24

9/12/17 1:34pm

Who are you exactly? You seem to follow me around the board, providing useless

IrishCooga

9/12/17 2:12pm

RE: Who are you exactly? You seem to follow me around the board, providing useless

SJS

9/12/17 4:48pm

Ask that question of their under-aged asian employees.....

ByuMba90

9/12/17 1:17pm

Get back to work small child and build my phone!

Cougar-Duck

9/12/17 1:18pm

Wait, are we talking about Apple or Samsung?

chago04

9/12/17 1:20pm

Yes.

ByuMba90

9/12/17 1:24pm

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Buffalo

9/12/17 1:12pm

I like how you took the time to add your reasoned and seasoned

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:14pm

They're geniuses. They have MLM pricing and their customers are "ambassadors".

Phcole

9/12/17 1:14pm

Oligopoly prices.

reagan21

9/12/17 1:15pm

The ambassador bit is definitely true. It's a mini-cult for some

Bob Vance

9/12/17 1:20pm

I've been a mac guy for 15 years

Choke

9/12/17 1:15pm

^^^^he gets it^^^^

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:17pm

Samsung and Microsoft are now just as expensive

CSoul

9/12/17 1:18pm

Unfortunately true. The Note 8 is $960 at Verizon.

Cougar-Duck

9/12/17 1:20pm

Holy crap!

Choke

9/12/17 1:21pm

Mircosoft's Surfacebooks are the same as MacBooks now.

immacougar

9/12/17 1:27pm

<< Deleted >>

9/12/17 1:18pm

True, because Samsung, who they steal all their new features from,

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:22pm

Can't wait for Apple to have a phone that catches on fire.

crack

9/12/17 1:24pm

RE: True, because Samsung, who they steal all their new features from,

bag

9/12/17 1:41pm

Their products are not for the poor. Enjoy your Samsung.

9/12/17 1:19pm

The Galaxy series is $700+, too.

SandYFan

9/12/17 1:20pm

$700 is less than $1,000 poor person.

Dillinger

9/12/17 1:29pm

Coming to you live from a 6S+

IrishCooga

9/12/17 1:21pm

I don't understand what it's like to not be able to afford Apple stuff, but I

9/12/17 1:51pm

I worked at the computer department at the BYU bookstore like 13 years ago. I

9/12/17 1:26pm

English majors with $4,000 Macbooks make me so sad.

SandYFan

9/12/17 1:29pm

And we wonder why kids are graduating with so much student debt.

crack

9/12/17 1:29pm

$4000 Macbook? I think the top of the line is $3600

HuskerCoug

9/12/17 1:33pm

I bought my college-age daughter a $250 Chromebook. Does that make me a bad dad?

Cougar-Duck

9/12/17 1:42pm

Yes. You obviously don't care about her edumacation.

John Doe

9/12/17 1:46pm

My last MacBook, this year, was $1,800.

Finngirl

9/20/17 9:58am

Apple Stock wasn't $2 in 2004. It's pre-ipod stock price was about $9 in 2000

reagan21

9/12/17 1:31pm

I have the 2004 price anywhere between 1.51 and 4.97 when not adjusted for the

crack

9/12/17 1:39pm

Maybe. I forgot the stock split somewhere in there.

reagan21

9/12/17 1:45pm

This site says June 1st 2004 it was priced at 1.99. I know it did split years

9/12/17 2:19pm

And yet their sheeple continue to purchase everything with an apple on it.

VACOUGFAN

9/12/17 2:27pm

And I think that they're convinced that higher price=better product.

Belboz

9/12/17 2:32pm

How long have they had your family hostage? Or are they blackmailing you into

GAINZ

9/12/17 4:09pm

This is exactly why I am in favor of a VAT....They have reached the edge of the

Nat Gas Man

9/12/17 4:14pm

Finally somebody had the courage to say it.

SuperTank

9/20/17 10:51am

What's really crazy is how they produce crap and convince people to be satisfied

Medute

9/20/17 5:03pm

Go away

IrishCooga

9/20/17 9:58pm

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