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Apple Raises Prices in Europe and Canada as U.S. Dollar Remains Strong
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25 $ less on average, doesn't seem like canadian customers have a reason to complain?
Also, the average 33 $ more for portugal in your previous example don't seem too bad.
So you expected the same battery life in a smaller notebook with a Retina display?
Apple may have lost you, but you have lost your mind.
I'd like to pay a lot less
I'd like to pay a lot less but the simple fact is that exchange rate fluctuations are expensive to companies. They have to either build in a buffer for such fluctuations or make an allowance for the costs of hedging.
We're OK in the UK for the moment and it may well be that Apple's increases are in response to how it thinks the Euro will perform in the coming months. Without major concessions, Greece will exit the Euro and the currency will fall. If Brussels makes enough concessions to keep Greece in, it will trigger a whole lot of demands from other countries for similar treatment and that, I think, will also cause the Euro to fail.
I'd like to pay a lot less but the simple fact is that exchange rate fluctuations are expensive to companies. They have to either build in a buffer for such fluctuations or make an allowance for the costs of hedging.
We're OK in the UK for the moment and it may well be that Apple's increases are in response to how it thinks the Euro will perform in the coming months. Without major concessions, Greece will exit the Euro and the currency will fall. If Brussels makes enough concessions to keep Greece in, it will trigger a whole lot of demands from other countries for similar treatment and that, I think, will also cause the Euro to fail.
Indeed. It's a stalehorse. The European Union wants to keep Greece in at any cost. Not because Greece itself is that important it's one of the EU's smallest economies but because they want to prove the euro (currency) is reliable and won't fall apart under pressure.
The Greeks know damn well the EU wants to keep them on board at any cost and refuse to cooperate because they know the EU won't let them go bankrupt anyway. It's beyond embarrassing by now.
The European Central Bank (ECB) now prints loads and loads of euros, 1500.000.000.000 in the next 1,5 years, deliberately weakening the currency so export will go up. Good for the economy. Not so good for EU citizens that want to buy a laptop.
The way I see it, the common are paying the price for the EU's aspirations to create some kind of United States of Europe. Like the Romans, the Von Habsburgs, Napoleon and Nazis tried and failed. Which will never work.
In the end, the euro will fall, because the countries are too different. Keeping a single currency also means you have to cover for the financial differences. In everyday reality, this means the other countries will have to cover any financial problem that arises, for example in Greece, but sooner or later this will happen to other, bigger countries.
It's not just one country becoming responsible for the debts of another, it's also the savings from one country being confiscated by they EU, the currency being manipulated the european bank, nothing stopping a country from making debts..
Pretty disappointed with the price increase, pretty sure they have lost me now.
So they are doing that bad.
Needed the price increase, sure
I'm actually surprised how everyone here is enraged about those price changes. Apple products haven't been cheap before, still everyone bought them, but have they become any less good with the recent price change? It's not like they have doubled, if the prices seemed worth it to you then there's not really a reason why they shouldn't be anymore.
Also, those increases were no surprise but just a matter of time, with the current EUR-USD rollercoaster there was no way Apple wouldn't adjust pricing at some point.
They defiinitely have lost me. My next notebook won't be a Mac anymore.
I loved the 15" because it was allround top quality for how mobile it was. The newest one is a joke and the prices have gone way up. There used to be a big quality gab between the MBPs and the competition but that has closed now. There are some really neat Windows pieces out there and they cost a fraction.
One can justify the 13" prices with some difficulty but the 15" makes just a ridiculous jump of a cliff in price for value.
2800 vs an Asus at over a 1000 less that is better, with better cooling, better performance and better graphics switching.
Apple has always gone for profit margin over volume. I think the though the people they will really loose here is students. Some could afford Macs and bought them. I saw quite a few 15" in my time. But those will become extremely rare. Those are all lost repeat customers, also being alone with Macs makes support among the cummunity for programs used in school much more of an issue. Studying with Linux required more know how than with Windows. With Macs it was decent because the other Mac owners helped each other out. Figuring out all the quirks yourself while everyone else runs Windows is an issue.
Maybe not in the Apple loving US but everywhere else will see less students choosing Macs and more hostility towards the overpriced toys means less future customers.
I loved the 15" because it was allround top quality for how mobile it was. The newest one is a joke and the prices have gone way up. There used to be a big quality gab between the MBPs and the competition but that has closed now. There are some really neat Windows pieces out there and they cost a fraction.
One can justify the 13" prices with some difficulty but the 15" makes just a ridiculous jump of a cliff in price for value.
2800 vs an Asus at over a 1000 less that is better, with better cooling, better performance and better graphics switching.
Apple has always gone for profit margin over volume. I think the though the people they will really loose here is students. Some could afford Macs and bought them. I saw quite a few 15" in my time. But those will become extremely rare. Those are all lost repeat customers, also being alone with Macs makes support among the cummunity for programs used in school much more of an issue. Studying with Linux required more know how than with Windows. With Macs it was decent because the other Mac owners helped each other out. Figuring out all the quirks yourself while everyone else runs Windows is an issue.
Maybe not in the Apple loving US but everywhere else will see less students choosing Macs and more hostility towards the overpriced toys means less future customers.
Exchange price. $1= 2.6 TL
High-End iMac 8.299,00 TL(include TAX) Just TAX in Turkey 1.297,00 TL = $3192 (include TAX) Just TAX $498.
Also In Turkey all Computer Parts and Computer selling with dollar. All companies are updating daily price for dollar parity.
Everyday prices are changing in Turkey.
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