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Apple Adjusts International App Store Prices
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How about making these changes to the Apple Store.
You're still ripping Australians off.
Australian Prices should be less than the US.
You're still ripping Australians off.
Australian Prices should be less than the US.
apart from automatic toilet seats yet another reason why I love living in Japan
Ah, I love those toilet seats. I didn't feel clean for weeks after I left Japan.
Dammit you have ruined it
I was on the cusp of signing a deal to import these to the UK and make billions.
Now you have posted this on mac rumours you've blown it
Greece is also some 28% smaller than the U.S. and has an approx 74% smaller land mass. On a per capita basis, the U.S and Greece's debt are on par, about $40K. I'm not saying the U.S. debt problem isn't serious, but so is Greece's, and one should not trivialize either. There is no use keeping score here, it's not a football match. Saying Greece's debt is "only" 3.25% of the U.S. is meaningless. The true comparisons are as a % of GDP and per capita, not gross amount.
Make sure you get the high end ones with the heated seats, hot air driers and everything. I've never spent so many happy hours with the newspaper . . . .
How mathematically challenged do you want to behave? Seriously, demand your currency plummet so you can save a few Kroners! Sounds logical!
Those ****ers have raised the price in the iTunes store as well. DRM-free tracks cost $1.29 in the iTunes Store with a U.S. account, right? Well, it's gone from NOK 10.00 to 12.00 now. That is NOK 9.30 per dollar. Even if you make a correction for the 25 % tax, it's still NOK 7.44 per dollar - which is 34 % higher than the mid-rate USD/NOK (currently at 5.53).
Out-****ing-standing...
Out-****ing-standing...
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Hmm... I didn't spot that demand there, maybe I needed to read between the lines. Besides which (on the subject of being mathematically challenged) it would in fact be the other way around.
Returning to the issue, I think in the case of Norway it is to do with the introduction of sales tax rather than the rebalancing against Apple's native currency.
;-) Wait till everyone realizes this change effects Apps pricing only.
99c iTunes US music track is still $1.69 in iTunes AU.
That is because the music licensing is to the Australian rights holders but still it really is time they came to the party with a bit of currency adjustment. Not holding out much the Oz Music Industry has always struggled with currency.
Actually, I think that apple products are more expensive in Greece (for instance, the iPad costs 519 I think, and definitely not 479 as in other euro countries - with a 23% VAT).
Probably because the economy is booming, and everyone has loads of money....
It's kind of funny though - although off-topic - to see people arguing about which currency is better, who speaks more languages and stuff like that..
(no offense, I hope)
I understand people that see higher prices, never pleasant to see that - fair or not.
Anyway, I hope at least new prices in euro won't be higher.
It may have lost some value over the dollar the past few days, but I believe it's still more dollars per euro than some weeks/months ago...
If mdrittmeyer (typo intended) attempts to mock my math skills as well, I'm going to post my Calculus grade here only to annoy him/her.
The pricing of recent updates has been pretty good.
Remembering there are other costs with physical stuff like shipping.
Hardware pricing follows a standard formula after currency conversion add 5% for local costs then 10%GST finally round up to the nearest Price ending in 9 (99 for 4 figure prices).
Australian Dollar would need look like it's going to be over $1.15 for the sticker price to be the same.
True, but if Australian rights holders are paid in AUD, and pay their electricity bills and buy their groceries in AUD, then how the AUD compares to the USD doesn't affect them in the way it affects Apple - and it's probably not going to convince them to take what is essentially an arbitrary cut.
Tunes haven't really become more expensive as compared with your other outgoings in general (god i remember the cost of a bottle of mineral water in sydney earlier in the year! Wow) and if you couldn't see the green grass of the US iTunes store you might not have known just how 'cheap' tunes are here!
Its shocking how late apple is.
The last time 1 USD was worth 1 CHF was in early summer 2010 ...
For the past 6 months the USD barely reached 0.85 CHF so we are still over 15% off reality and chances that it gets worse are higher than that the USD gets closer to CHF again.
The last time 1 USD was worth 1 CHF was in early summer 2010 ...
For the past 6 months the USD barely reached 0.85 CHF so we are still over 15% off reality and chances that it gets worse are higher than that the USD gets closer to CHF again.
Well said!
Ignorant people will never understand how difficult it is to learn another language. if that guy really knows Japanese, he should be patient with others because I am sure as hell that he made many mistakes while learning Kanji. Hiragana and Katana are not that difficult, but Kanji...etc.
Canadian prices are a little better, but not great yet.
First I was pissed, then I thought that at least developers make a little more from some regions. Then I thought of actually checking the Mac App Store, and found some really strange prices. FaceTime is 5.60 NOK, while the lowest tier should be 7 NOK. I thought they started listing prices without VAT (which you aren't supposed to do here when selling to the public). But then I saw other prices were reduced by amounts I couldn't make sense of. Aperture looks cheaper than it used to. Is FCX down 100 NOK or so? Anyone got a snapshot of the previous prices for Apple's products in the Norwegian MAS?
All the Apple hardware in Australia and New Zealand are the same price still well over priced. The US dollar is heading down the toilet today. It's gone down to record lows. The US should be paying more for all products a lot more.
I'll be in the States next month buying up these cheap prices on all products.
I'll be in the States next month buying up these cheap prices on all products.
Uk prices
If anyone's still complaining about UK prices, if you haven't worked it out yet, we're actually getting a pretty good deal on app store prices, and are paying more on hardware.
To be clear, the US prices don't include sales tax, which is added later.
At 99c, and with an average sales tax of 9.64%, Americans are paying around 108.54c which would be 109c if you round up. This is equivalent to 67p. we pay 69p.
But remember that sales tax in the UK is included in the price and is more that double the average US rate at 20%, which means by rights we should be paying 73/74p.
If you work out the pre-tax price for the UK, it's 57.5p, which is 93c
In other words,
a). We were paying quite a lot less than the US until these changes. Something like Final Cut had a pre tax price of £150, which is $242. In the US, the pre tax price was $299.
b) Even now, Apple are still charging us less than the US, if there is a small difference in price, it is because of tax. The pre-tax price of Final Cut is still $268 in the UK. Even with double the tax this is still less than the US post tax price!
If anyone's still complaining about UK prices, if you haven't worked it out yet, we're actually getting a pretty good deal on app store prices, and are paying more on hardware.
To be clear, the US prices don't include sales tax, which is added later.
At 99c, and with an average sales tax of 9.64%, Americans are paying around 108.54c which would be 109c if you round up. This is equivalent to 67p. we pay 69p.
But remember that sales tax in the UK is included in the price and is more that double the average US rate at 20%, which means by rights we should be paying 73/74p.
If you work out the pre-tax price for the UK, it's 57.5p, which is 93c
In other words,
a). We were paying quite a lot less than the US until these changes. Something like Final Cut had a pre tax price of £150, which is $242. In the US, the pre tax price was $299.
b) Even now, Apple are still charging us less than the US, if there is a small difference in price, it is because of tax. The pre-tax price of Final Cut is still $268 in the UK. Even with double the tax this is still less than the US post tax price!
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All the Apple hardware in Australia and New Zealand are the same price still well over priced. The US dollar is heading down the toilet today. It's gone down to record lows. The US should be paying more for all products a lot more.
I'll be in the States next month buying up these cheap prices on all products.
There have been rumors that Apple is planning on adjusting hardware prices too. It would make sense if they did that along with the upcoming refreshes.
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-is-p...-price-cuts-on-new-mac-hardware-report/104548
All this talk of US iTunes/apps prices having sales tax added on later... I'm resident in California (home of the highest sales tax in the US AFAIK), my credit card is registered here, and yet all my iTunes invoices show zero tax.
Perhaps I'm the only one, and should keep my mouth shut about it?!
Perhaps I'm the only one, and should keep my mouth shut about it?!
