So you base your tech purchases on the opinion of the daily mail, ignoring common sense and techinical know-how? Good plan.
"Apple hikes the prices in its App Store by 25%... but ONLY in Britain" I did'nt read the rest because its the daily mail but assuming this is true i assume thats what he is getting at I would never buy or own a apple product purely because i have no need for one a triple the price computer that looks fancy is not my thing Even the iPod read anywhere and there are tons of devices that are better at cheaper prices the iphone is just the same as any other smartphone Overpriced that is all
Not just them my friend. I much prefer android on the mobile industry and windows on the PC front. We have to admit here Apple is one very money hungry business and I am most probably opening a huge can of worms but that's me and my own opinion. Example at work I am the Staff member in my store that does not own an iphone. It would be damn boring it we didn't haven't a difference of opinions,
Please don't start an apple hating thread. I don't bum apple but they have their place, if they want to put the price up they can. Deal with it.
They rebalanced their prices to be more in line with current exchange rates - the first time they've ever done this. Believe it or not, the Pound isn't as strong as it once was, and the Dollar is getting stronger. (and the Daily Mail would try its best to have you believe otherwise) Sure, it's a bummer, but do the maths.
Welcome to the real world. This happens to continental Europe pretty much every day, so i have just one word for you - adapt. For example look at STEAM : Plus you complain about price increase in few tens of pennies ? You know, you remind me of this : http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/13/apple-adjusts-international-app-store-prices/ UK: £0.59 -> £0.69 Australia: AU$1.19 -> AU$0.99 Japan: 115 -> 85 Yen Mexico: $10 -> $12 Switzerland: 1.10Fr -> 1.00Fr Norway: 6.00Kr -> 7.00Kr So the UK went up, but so did Mexico and Norway. Other countries went down, all relative to their currency's performance to the US dollar. Apple have never done this before in the app store - but they've done it plenty of times with hardware. The UK at one stage was the cheapest place to buy Apple products, with an iMac costing just over £600. The Daily Mail have spun this way out of proportion. Every company has to adjust prices if they're dealing internationally. Ergo, stop reading crap papers.
Also, these price increases will give you cancer... ...according to the Daily Mail. *Somebody was gonna!
and they're made by homosexual Chinese children who're oppressed by making porn every day while being paid 1p a year.
Frankly, I don't get the amount of hate Apple is receiving these days. How much more does an Apple smarthphone cost compared to similar android model from Samsung, HTC etc? Macs have a reputation of a designer product, and will therefore cost extra. Not everyone of us will pay 300€ for a kitchen lamp or 1000€ for office chair. Still there's market for those, and I'm not seeing Eames Aluminium Group Management Chair hate threads popping up all the time. Not everyone wants a generic-looking case and a plasticky boxy monitor to their apartments, and once you start getting a more stylish components (Silverstone/LiLi case and so on) the price of a build starts to ramp up pretty fast. Also, my iPhone 3gs works perfectly out of the box, doesn't require any tinkering, and the UI is so straightforward even my 18 month old daughter is able to use it (to some extent, she can start up and play the games she likes, knows how to get it to play her cartoons and stuff like that), which is something I can't say for my brother's Galaxy S. Every app I've bought from App store has so far worked right away, again something which I can't say for my brother's android phone. I don't have first hand experience on latest offerings from either camp, so I'm not commenting on those.
Why I will never understand people who base their buying decisions on ignorant tabloids. Not the first time the OP has started moronic threads with Daily Mail links.
Actually, the smartphone category is one of the "Apple way overpriced it compared to the alternatives". iPhone 4 is 640€+ item here in Slovakia, pretty much all Android smartphones are "550€ and lower" category. I hope we don't compare subsidized prices with contract...
I don't own an Apple product (and never have) because I own an Android phone and play games on the PC. There is nothing else to it, really.
Saying "I will never own a brand X product", as a rule or principle, is thick as bricks. I own precisely one Apple product - an ipod - despite generally disliking their products. Why? Because that one product (the ipod classic 120GB) happened to be a great product for a reasonable price at the time. I similarly own one Sony product (a PSP-3000) despite generally disliking their products and their practices, because it just happened to be a good product made by them. You can't make sweeping generalizations about a particular company being totally awesome or totally bad. Well, you can, but it makes you simple, frankly.
Um...because they're control freaks trying to limit what their users can do with the items they purchased? Like Sony and Nintendo? I've boycotted all these companies for the last decade (and yes, I'm an Apple ][ owner) since I prefer to support those who treat me as a consumer, not a brainwashed piggy-bank.
