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[numlock]

Just look at the threads when they complain about the prices they pay compared to those in the US for Apple products. Aussies do it, too. People can't seem to wrap their minds around the consequences of the laws and taxes they have, and expect Apple to simply eat the higher cost of doing business in countries with high minimum wages, VAT taxes, and things like mandatory 2 and 3 year warranties.

yes ive seen those threads and obviously what you mention leads to a higher price compared to a country where all these costs are lower. does it explain all of it though?

however i dont get the connection to my post.

 

[jonblatho]

Well yeah, but too much information and you'll see that neither party was completely right or wrong. And that just won't do.

I know I'm a bit late in responding, and perhaps I'm incorrect, but I don't recall saying either side was right or wrong.

 

[Michael Goff]

I know I'm a bit late in responding, and perhaps I'm incorrect, but I don't recall saying either side was right or wrong.

And I quote:

"Apple wanted Google to let it use turn-by-turn data.

Google wouldn't allow it to happen because competition.

Then came along Apple Maps."

 

[jonblatho]

And I quote:

"Apple wanted Google to let it use turn-by-turn data.

Google wouldn't allow it to happen because competition.

Then came along Apple Maps."

I'm trying to think of language I used which was intended to portray either in a negative light. Would one not expect Google to not reserve its best Google Maps features for Android?

 

[Michael Goff]

I'm trying to think of language I used which was intended to portray either in a negative light. Would one not expect Google to not reserve its best Google Maps features for Android?

Except they weren't doing that. They asked Apple for more data and their name on the application. The easy this is written is outright wrong, and paints it as:

Apple: Can we have more things for our users?
Google: Of course not. Why would we do that? We have Android!

I'd that was the case, Google wouldn't have made their own application with the things Apple was asking for.