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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Exactly. People always forget the "how much is your time worth" aspect of this discussion. For some of us, not having to micro-manage everything is more valuable than a couple hundred more dollars at the till.
It's like my sister who will drive to the other side of the city to save 8 cents per liter on gas. Is the hour and a half in traffic really worth the $3.20 saved on a 40L tank?
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But I would not be happier with the product even if I had spent a few hundred extra dollars at the the till, and it's not just the money part. I wouldn't want a big box stock anything. Apple is now for all intents and purposes the big concrete corporation in their 1984 commercial in my mind as far as aesthetics and design ubiquity goes. This is all personal taste & opinion of course.
I think for a lot of other people, the whole Apple pricing thing is not about inherent value (whatever that means for you whether in time, productivty, security, efficiency, look, etc.) but rather an underlying feeling that Apple is making more money off them then they should be because they are used to other platforms where competition is rife and margins are razor thin (5% whereas Apple's margins are estimated in the 40% area).
A couple years ago, someone tried to convince me to buy an Apple Cinema Display but it was built with the exact same panel as an LG display that was half the price. Yes it had a plastic body instead of fancy aluminum but it looked just as good.
It's not neccessarily an Apple / PC thing. I would similarily never buy a Sony Vaio product for instance for the exact same reasons.