Why should they? The market dictates the price.
If people are buying Apple products at those prices then why should Apple lower their prices? The answer is they shouldn't.
If people are buying Apple products at those prices then why should Apple lower their prices? The answer is they shouldn't.
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Although still not without issue, my workflow has aligned so much with Linux and it's finally reached a good enough point for my day to day use... not having to use the VM based mac or windows docker has been really nice (WSL isn't good enough imho).
1) Other companies that are willing to sell you workstation and laptop computers that you can run other operating systems on such as one of the Linux variants, Windows, BSD etc. Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer from Apple.
2) There is a thriving second hand market of Apple machines just look at ebay, craigslist, gumtree etc.
If a new Apple machine isn't worth it to you, you are free to buy alternatives.
I am going to buy one of the newer Lenovo Thinkpads as I don't think the MacBook pro is worth it to replace my ageing Macbook Pro.
Can you provide a citation for this? Having worked with literally thousands of engineers, I have never seen a hackintosh in real life.
YMMV.
It’s a respectable hobby, though, like iOS jailbreaking or emulation, and for persistent people it does let them run MacOS on more powerful hardware than they could afford.
Google Trends suggests that searches for 'Hackintosh' peaked around 2009 and have been steadily declining down to around a half since then. Searches for 'Ubuntu' dominate so much it makes the Hackintosh graph look flat by comparison, but Hackintosh seems about as popular as 'Manjaro' (Linux Distribution) currently is, fwiw:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=hackinto...
I gave OSX a test drive and found it much more simple compared to Windows. As I already had an iPhone/iPad it made sense to switch. Come upgrade time I bought a Macbook Pro and have been on OSX since.
What you're saying is the fact people are buying their machines means they shouldn't change price or value proposition... because there are in fact purchases; which, is quite frankly, baffling, to me, a humble idiot.
Mercedes must think their EQC is positioned perfectly in the market with 55 sales? I now imagine Magic Leap will be leaping to raise prices with their next version?
Obviously.
> What you're saying is the fact people are buying their machines means they shouldn't change price or value proposition... because there are in fact purchases; which, is quite frankly, baffling, to me, a humble idiot.
If Apple are selling the machines in sufficient quantities at whatever they are priced at (I haven't cared to look) then obviously Apple's customers think they are worth it. It isn't really more complicated than that.
> It's okay to be completely full of shit, just don't market it as truth.
I know you think you are being big brained but not everything is "you must provide a citation". It is pretty obvious Apple knows the market well, knows exactly what they can and can't charge for certain products. You pretending otherwise because I haven't provided you with a citation is a complete joke, it is like asking someone to cite for evidence that the sky is blue.
In conclusion, you think no company should adjust their prices, ever? Because the current price is the market price which is obviously the right price because it's the market price?
It's circular reasoning, which can be applied to any sales situation - and if it explains everything, it explains nothing.
Obviously not. I am saying they have no incentive to change the price if the sales are inline or above with what they would have forecasted.
> Because the current price is the market price which is obviously the right price because it's the market price? > > It's circular reasoning, which can be applied to any sales situation - and if it explains everything, it explains nothing.
Again you don't seem to understand basic market economics. Your product is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. There is the odd exception to the rule (Head and Shoulders Shampoo being one of them, which is priced far higher than they originally intended because people assumed it didn't work because it was cheap).
Generally if there are two or more companies producing product X (in this case Computer Workstations and Laptops) then the market will coalesce around a particular price point for a particular specification. Sure there are those that will always stick to a brand, but the vast number of consumers won't be loyal.
Whether or not the company makes a profit on each unit sold is irrelevant to its market price. If they price their product higher than their competitors people will look at the alternatives.
e.g. I bought a MacBook Pro in 2015 because Apple's machine was cheaper than Lenovo, Dell for the same spec and had a better screen than any of the competitors machines.
This really isn't complicated stuff. I think that personal bias seems to cloud people to some basic truths.
No. There is usually no such thing as _a_ market price. There's a distribution of prices for purchases of the same item (and that's when we ignore the cases of transactions involving more than just the transfer of money).
> the equilibrium of both supply and demand.
Supply and demand for a specific products are more the _result_ of socio-economic processes and phenomena rather their _causes_.
If you're talking to me about socio-economic processes when we're talking about something simple, it pretty clearly shows you're you're not very educated in Economics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand#Criticism
If you like your charts and economic formalisms, and believe in "market prices", perhaps you should take the time to read the Candide-like "Production of commodities by means of commodities" by Piero Sraffa.