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If Apple wanted to do that, they very well could. They introduced the Mac Mini for $500 and I guess it didn't sell too well. The low-price desktop computer market is already flooded and very competitive. They know who their core market is -- high end, high quality computer buyers -- and they are doing (increasingly) well in that market.
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apples doing just fine, theyre ganna hit the roof in a couple years at their current pricing scheme cause only so many people are gullible enough to pay the mac tax, then theyll have to make a decesion to continue charging 500$+ extra for the same hardware (fanboy: blah blah its better blah. me: its the same hardware since they use intel now, you can find other laptops and desktops with the same equipment for a better price)
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Thats what I was thinking.Originally Posted by phaed
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Also, you can't just compare Mac and PC hardware directly and claim that there's a "Mac Tax." Mac software running on Mac hardware has different performance than Linux or Windows software running on PC hardware. You have to look at the overall performance/price ratio.
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Not every company is in a race to the bottom to be "number one".
Consider any Superior good or Veblen good, for example.
There are many metrics for success.
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@ OP:
No, it's three different things you're talking about (or inferring) here.
Microsoft continues to hemorrhage customers because of issues with Vista. Apple continues to gain market share based on gaining traction and credibility with individuals and businesses. Linux continues to increase it's share because of it's established credibility, people finding there actually are alternatives to Windows, and that those alternatives are viable.
Apple is in it's own unique position. They are the only PC maker who is able to have (and hold on to) the very significant profit margins they are. Part of the reason they're doing well is that they don't present themselves as "being like everyone else", and because of the psychology associated with pricing. Apple doesn't sell anything for bargain-basement pricing, and I doubt they likely ever will. It's not that they couldn't sell even a $400 laptop or $200 desktop system fully capable of running Mac OS X, both things which arguably would get them more sales. It's that they wish to differentiate themselves by price-pointing their products such that people feel like they've actually bought better than that plastic Sony, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo or Gateway laptop they also saw on the shelf.
Like it or not, it's a strategy that works.
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its the same hardware, intel chips, intel processors, and intel/nvidia/ati chipsets, silcon image storage controllers, its all the exact same, when it was ppc you had a point but now its not, the mac tax is what youre paying to use osx, and its not worth it
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Even when it was a PPC, it still contained Intel/Nvidia/ATi chipsets, an Intel IDE controller, a Foxconn motherboard, and was all designed to Intel specifications (including the AGP and RAM busses).
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