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

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Sep 20, 2017
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Finngirl

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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

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rivercitycoug

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.

Virginia Ute

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

Virginia Ute

9/12/17 1:51pm

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

Windward_Coug

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

Windward_Coug

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

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