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To: Deagle; dinodino
Apple is involves a cult of users and supporters so no use trying to express common sense to them. They will support Apple to the end and it just might be the beginning - of the end.

You realize that there are 1.2 BILLION iOS devices that have been sold. 700 MILLION of them are for iPhone users, and 300 million are for iPad users. That is SOME CULT, Deagle. There are just over 100 Million OS X Macs now in the wild. OS X Macs are continually gaining ground while Windows PCs have been losing ground in every quarter but one for the last five years. Again, that is some cult, especially when you realize that the vast majority of the Mac users come from ex-Windows users. Perhaps those Mac users know something about the devices they use that you non-users just don't know? Especially since most of them are already intimately knowledgeable about Windows and have deliberately chosen to go to another platform?

As for Apple products being "overpriced", when that many people are willing to step up and spend THEIR hard earned money—their money they could easily choose to expend elsewhere—to buy Apple products, the unbreakable Law of Supply and Demand, says that Apple products are priced just exactly correctly—especially because Apple is selling every single one they can produce and has a backlog of demand they cannot meet on products such as the Apple Watches.

I have a degree in Economics. That's what you learn in Economics, especially Capitalist Economics. Ergo, Apple products are NOT "overpriced" and in fact they are priced just right to meet demand. I could put that in mathematical functions and price point derivatives, and all that, but let's not waste time doing it.

When you can show me Apple dumping products to get rid of them. . . then you can start claiming they are "overpriced."

16 posted on 08/23/2015 12:42:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Actually, I think that you have demonstrated my point! Thank you, Apple has no where to go but down in prices (call it the China syndrome) and you will be one of the last to understand what is happening and why.

Also call it technology finally catches up to most modern products and Apple’s products are way past due except for the cult thing. Apple products are nice but overpriced and since China has entered into the picture, they will drop! Don’t buy stock now...


17 posted on 08/23/2015 12:54:04 AM PDT by Deagle
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To: Swordmaker; Deagle; dinodino
When you can show me Apple dumping products to get rid of them. . . then you can start claiming they are "overpriced."

Just because people are stupid enough to pay for something that is overpriced, doesn't mean it isn't.

Prime example... Housing Markets.
20 posted on 08/23/2015 7:06:46 AM PDT by PJBankard (If I had something clever to say, I would have put it in my post.)
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