sorry about that. I think I misquoted you and intended to quote someone else. There was a specific date shown or the day highlighted I had seen was the current day. Either way my mistake.
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sorry about that. I think I misquoted you and intended to quote someone else. There was a specific date shown or the day highlighted I had seen was the current day. Either way my mistake.
Yes, because they sure are slow to recognise when it goes in the opposite direction.
Shops empty of course but behaviour better I think. Nothing like the tube and buses. I live on a busy road and been very little traffic.
Things are very civilised here in Finland so far. My stepdaughter lives in London and I visit often so I know how things can get among some members of the community. I was living in Vauxhall during the last riots and it was a bit unnerving.
Collective silence of those who were wondering when Apple were going to drop their prices to increase sales....
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Interesting, here in Czech Republic some upgrade prices went up, but lot of them went down.
MBP 16 – i9 – previously 9800CZK, now 10000CZK
/ but 32gb ram – prevously 12800CZK, now 12000 CZK
etc.
MBP 16 – i9 – previously 9800CZK, now 10000CZK
/ but 32gb ram – prevously 12800CZK, now 12000 CZK
etc.
As I said before, if you want to use macOS there's no other way to avoid the costs. (legally)
I for one won't ever want to drop macOS, so yeah, I do not have a choice other than paying more.
More than 10% in some cases
And this can't really be exchange rate fluctuations as the Macbook Air got the same price cut in the UK.
Also thanks for not crediting me MacRumors, I told you about this last Wednesday.
And this can't really be exchange rate fluctuations as the Macbook Air got the same price cut in the UK.
Also thanks for not crediting me MacRumors, I told you about this last Wednesday.
Always with the excuses for Apple's shady behavior. Can you ever admit when Apple's done something wrong or shady?
You're just saying stuff now. None of that is based on reality for Apple.A tip of the hat to Tim Apple — get ahead of the curve, never let a helicopter-money check go to waste.I predict their next move will be a claim of corporate poverty as they stand (at a social distance of course) in the line for federal bail-outs.
The only companies talking about a bailout have been hammered the hardest by this virus freakout, as in their business has basically stopped...which isn't their fault.
Should the cruise industry, airlines, hotels, and Boeing just go out of business? Maybe they should, but there are only select companies even talking about taking federal loans...and they kind of need some kind of consideration. Other business are getting consideration too...as are citizens.
This isn't 2008 where banks did this to themselves.
There’s nothing wrong or shady about adjusting prices based on devaluation of foreign currencies against the dollar. You may not understand the math behind it, but that’s not really relevant.
I do not think the cruise companies should get bailouts from the USA
Let them get bailed out by the government of the country whose flags they fly under in order to avoid US regulations
Maybe when Apple actually does something wrong or shady?
I am not seeing the issue here. The dollar is rising, meaning that prices of goods are now more expensive relative to the US dollar, and Apple is adjusting their prices to take this into account.
But instead we have so many conspiracy theories about what Apple is doing and why. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I could also say the same here - is it so hard to give Apple credit where credit is due, instead of always being so negative and automatically assuming the worst of Apple every time their name pops up in the news?
Then it's worth the cost to you and is probably priced correctly... You have a choice: change operating systems, or spend more money. You choose spend more money.
MacOS isn't free because it's without value, it's free because it's supported by hardware sales.
Put those under the, "maybe they should" go out of business category. Point remains...this isn't anyone's fault except China and it's disproportionately impacting the travel companies, one of which is a massive part of American manufacturing and GDP.
Yeah nah. Their prices for SSD upgrades are twice aftermarket retail rates, and RAM 4 times aftermarket retail rates. Gooouuuuuugggggeeeee!!!!!
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When your RAM prices are already 4 times aftermarket retail prices, you don't need to raise upgrade prices, especially as the world's economies are burning.
Yeah yeah yeah, we have choice. But see, the readership of this site contains a large number of people who love Apple products, but are aghast at the direction so many of the production decisions are heading in. What was it, 4 years of keyboard disaster; soldered in SSD/RAM; horrible touchbar; too hot to use as a laptop; I could go on and on. So yeah, my choice is to sit on my current 2015 MBP, and wait in hope. My 2015 is still the best MBP ever made, so I happily continue to use it. But one day it will die, and I will be wondering what the hell do I get next.
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Is there someone crazy enough to spend money on a Mac now?
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US Dollar became absurdely expensive last days. This way Apple will sell their stuff only in the USA.
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You speak like if the computer market was a perfect competition one.
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US Dollar became absurdely expensive last days. This way Apple will sell their stuff only in the USA.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The alternative to high upgrade costs is higher base model prices.
With an entry level $1,500 MacBook Air instead of $1,000, or a $3,000 base 16” MBP, instead of 2,400, Apple could lower the price of upgrades drastically. Of course, a lot of people that would normally buy the lower end configs will be priced out 🙁
But hell, why pussyfoot around? Why not go all the way? Why not a MacBook Air, $2,200 for the i3/8GB/256GB base model, with upgrades very well-priced: $5 for CPU upgrades, $5 RAM bumps and $5 for each higher capacity SSD upgrade. A maxed config would be $2,230—cheaper than today’s $2,250!!
Woo Hoo? 🤷♂️
Increasing the money supply tends to make the dollar weaker. It's a matter of supply and demand. If you increase the supply of dollars, the price of dollars (in pounds, euro, yen or whatever) goes down. The reason the dollar is getting stronger is that demand has gone up-- when the world gets freaked out, they buy the currency of the worlds largest economy as a safe investment.
Increasing the money supply would tend to bring exchange rates back in balance, but I'm not sure anything can overpower the flight to safety right now.
That said, I'm not sure where the trillion dollars a day number comes from-- that's not what the money supply is growing by-- the money supply grew by a trillion dollars in the last 10 months or so.