And in the UK the price has gone up to £649 for the base model. The last version was £510. That is ridiculous.
Mac mini was the cheapest option for iPhone and iPad app submission as fas as I knew. Now it just got a lot more expensive to do so.
Mac mini was the cheapest option for iPhone and iPad app submission as fas as I knew. Now it just got a lot more expensive to do so.
474.413 * 1.175 = 557.435 (for current vat)
So the actual current difference is £91.56 They will put that down to shipping & handling costs, administrative costs of operating in the uk.
The iPad has a difference of £52 for a similar priced item (once you take into account vat).
How can you add extra s&h and sg&a? This stuff goes from Asia, you ship it either to US or to UK (or whereever). You don't ship it from Asia to US and then to UK. The shipping should be about the same to US and UK.
Similarly with sg&a. The US operations does not have it already included in price? Or the UK (EU, whatever) customers pay for that twice?
Of course Apple could change the price based on exchange rates, but price hikes anger consumers, and there may be laws that make it difficult to suddenly raise the price anyway, especially if they have advertised them in catalogs, etc. And that's not to mention all of the third-parties that would have to sync up with Apple on these changes, and all the wrath they would face from consumers, etc.
So I think that their strategy is to set a price that gives them a currency fluctuation cushion and round it to an attractive number that ends in 9.
I'm running Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 9 which I bought for about $200 on sale.
I run OSX on a C2Q machine I built for $450. Works great with everything working 100% except it's not quite the same seamless experience a real Mac is (I've gotta fix my sleep mode nearly every update).
Apple is basically telling people the Apple TV is dead.
I should imagine these cost more than most people's TVs.
it is. It might be reborn later using iOS, but the current system is dead, it's not even featured in the store's front page anymore.
> I should imagine these cost more than most people's TVs.
But it's far more flexible and useful than the Apple TV (it's a full HTPC, therefore able to stream e.g. Hulu or Youtube), and the addition of HDMI out removes the last big issue it had as an HTPC, compared to an Apple TV. The TV never found its place in the Apple ecosystem and with a smaller, more efficient and more powerful Mini that place just shrunk a bit more.
Trust me, my ex was way into that stuff.
i liked previous design much better!