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Apple's Black Friday Sale Goes Live Internationally
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I think they're adding the deals now in belgium, its past midnight here now and the store says its updating:
http://store.apple.com/be-nl/
http://store.apple.com/be-nl/
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Deserve a sale?
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Deserve a sale?
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What if the hdmi cable is only worth $5 (which is true)?
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What if the hdmi cable is only worth $5 (which is true)?
That is true. I do go to the Boxing day sales in Brisbane every year.
But also Thanksgiving is not Black Friday. So this negates your argument. Cause Apple is giving a Black Friday sale and not a Thanksgiving sale.
The Thanksgiving holiday is only celebrated in the US and it makes no sense to have sales related to it in other countries. It's just another example of US culture being shoved down the throats of the rest of the world. Is it not enough to have US television and films flooding the Australian market to the point where local content is the exception, not the rule? How about having a permanent US military base on our soil? Now we are getting Black Friday discounts, as if Australians give a damn that God supposedly guided Pilgrims to the New World. No thank you Apple, we can make do without a discount for a day if it means keeping our our cultural identity in our own nation.
Well I was hoping I would get some good discount on a Thunderbolt display, or the iMac. With a student discount I am saving ca. 6$ on the lower end iMac 
Well at least this won't have to make me feel like I am in a hurry, or make me regret it later
Well at least this won't have to make me feel like I am in a hurry, or make me regret it later
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Do you have a similar (whack job) reaction when some wishes you a Happy _______ holiday if you don't share the assumed religion?
Lighten up.
Sol said:
Do you have a similar (whack job) reaction when some wishes you a Happy _______ holiday if you don't share the assumed religion?
Lighten up.
Wouldn't it make more sense to lower the iPad refurb pricing $50 also? I mean think of it this way:
People who want a BRAND NEW IPAD might buy one now, because its $50 cheaper
People who want an iPad (and don't care if its a refurb, like me) but don't want to spend $450, would buy one if it was also discounted.
Regardless, I am buying one anyway. Obviously if the brand new iPad's are the same price as refurbs, I am buying a new one.
People who want a BRAND NEW IPAD might buy one now, because its $50 cheaper
People who want an iPad (and don't care if its a refurb, like me) but don't want to spend $450, would buy one if it was also discounted.
Regardless, I am buying one anyway. Obviously if the brand new iPad's are the same price as refurbs, I am buying a new one.
Well .. there is THIS announcement on the Japanese page http://store.apple.com/jp/browse/holiday/shopping_event
but it is now 1PM Tokyo time and I am still waiting for specials to show up! Since I will be in Japan in a few weeks .. I want to get my new MBP there !!!
GAMBARU !
That is a false equivalency. I never said anything about not buying anything from a US company. The issue at hand is US holidays being acknowledged and celebrated in my country, as if they mean anything to us. They do not, just as holidays like the Queen's Birthday, Anzac Day and Australia Day mean nothing to Americans.
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Well then, you are completely ignoring the fact that we somehow have a Black Friday sale in Australia, despite this day being of no significance to anyone here.
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If I was an Atheist or part of a non-Christian faith then it would probably annoy me. Who are you to call it a "whack job reaction" when you do not even state what culture you represent? You can't just start celebrating US holidays in other nations and expect everyone to accept it, especially at a time of US military expansion on our soil.
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You're whining because you get to buy discounted stuff for 1 day ? Am I getting this correctly ?
You missed the point completely and yet you felt it necessary to comment. I guess some Canadians' cultural identity can be bought for a temporary discount.
When Apple started to extend their black friday sales to the online store, there were TONS of people complaining why that can't be internationally. Now people are whining it is? Black Friday per se is not a real holiday ... and as far as I know thanksgiving is not a religious holiday ...
But anyways .. I for one am sad that the Japanese store is not showing anything yet ... although they had the same announcement.
You shouldn't be complaining, you're lucky you have these low prices even without a sale. In Australia, most things are hundreds of dollars over the prices you have even though our dollar is up. Also, Australia isn't booming that much we're still in debt and we are getting new taxes which is going to kill off Australian businesses and many mining companies. So, technically it's FAIR!
I don't see the correlation of Black Friday and your cultural identity. Is somehow buying a item cut in price by black Friday prices makes you any less austrailian? It's not even a holiday and is only placed a day after thanksgiving for corporate convenience. No ones forcing you to believe in anything. If Austrailian had film or television worth giving a damn about, then perhaps the rest of the world would see a lot more of the arts of Austrailia. No one is making you, watch, buy or listen to anything American. But if your giving in to American culture, then bitching about American culture somehow eroding your own, Then maybe you should do right by your country and buy from a Austrailian computer company, buy a Austrailian car, listen to Austrailian music and stop the globalization of American culture into your deeply rooted cultural land.
Also unless your running through the streets having thanksgiving parades, wearing pilgrim hats, dressed like native Americans, eating turkey mashed potatoes and gravy, then there is no such bastardization of your culture. Like I said before, Black Friday is not a holiday or is it religious. Black Friday is just a corporate holiday, but I can understand. I am a Hispanic in America and detest cinco de mayo, why? Because its not a national Mexican holiday, it's a celebration held in a particular part of Mexico over a single battle fought and won against the French, not the entire country of Mexico. It was raped by Corporate America to sell lots of beer.
But no ones forcing a false pretense on your, their just trying to sell you ****. Not change your religion.
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I think you're being over-dramatic. It's a 1 day sale of items. It's not taking away your cultural identity.
I don't feel less Quebecer (I'm not Canadian nor do I have a Canadian cultural identity, thanks for the insult!) today than I did yesterday.
I got your point perfectly. You're confusing Black Friday with a Holiday (Thanksgiving). That was your point right ? That you're confused and thus overly dramatic ?