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Apple iTunes and Apple Store Glitches?
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I think this was a glitch, but helps point out how overpriced they are. The DP 1.8 is not a terrible deal, but we already know that the G5s don't generally blow away PCs which cost the same. They do on some things but are way behind on others so it's a wash.
Obviously they are still making money selling them at these prices to education, govt, and employees of those institutions (perhaps because there is no middleman in Apple Store sales and they probably get $2700 for a DP 2GHz sold through a retailer). G4s were expensive chips and I don't know what G5s cost but the hope was they were cheaper. Apple was selling the DP 1.42 for around $2700 before the G5 was announced weren't they. I see no reason why they can't do so again.
What I'd really like to see if a low end DP for $1700 or so as they did with the DP 867. The low end G5 is just too expensive and compromised. Just do it Apple! Spur sales for the holiday and last chance for a write off season.
Obviously they are still making money selling them at these prices to education, govt, and employees of those institutions (perhaps because there is no middleman in Apple Store sales and they probably get $2700 for a DP 2GHz sold through a retailer). G4s were expensive chips and I don't know what G5s cost but the hope was they were cheaper. Apple was selling the DP 1.42 for around $2700 before the G5 was announced weren't they. I see no reason why they can't do so again.
What I'd really like to see if a low end DP for $1700 or so as they did with the DP 867. The low end G5 is just too expensive and compromised. Just do it Apple! Spur sales for the holiday and last chance for a write off season.
Re: reduced Ipods?
there's an unfounded rumor on http://page2.macrumors.com on it
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Originally posted by IIvan
Hate to change the subject but-
Has anyone heard about the possible price reduction or adding of a new lower budget Ipod? I would love to buy one, but 300 at the lowest is just too much
there's an unfounded rumor on http://page2.macrumors.com on it
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A couple thoughts:
1. Apple wouldn't drop the price on a product that was only released one week previously. They may take liberties with customer service, but price drops no more than a week later is below even Apple's belt.
2. Sometimes I wonder if leaks before Apple announcements aren't encouraged. They might be orchestrated (or, at the very least, tolerated) much in the way that leaks are used by political entities as a noncomittal means of guaging response before news is made official.
For example, we have strong reason to believe (if not outright confirmation) that when iLife was announced last January, they were going to charge for the whole thing until they saw the uproar and decided to only charge for the box set/iDVD.
So maybe last week's timely leaks about the updated G5 lineup was a way to get a sense of public sentiment about the update. Perhaps they had prepared a number of graphics pages with different price points on them, depending on the reaction at places like here. The one that showed up this morning was in the discard pile and somebody or some program accidentally put it up a week later at about the same time of day.
1. Apple wouldn't drop the price on a product that was only released one week previously. They may take liberties with customer service, but price drops no more than a week later is below even Apple's belt.
2. Sometimes I wonder if leaks before Apple announcements aren't encouraged. They might be orchestrated (or, at the very least, tolerated) much in the way that leaks are used by political entities as a noncomittal means of guaging response before news is made official.
For example, we have strong reason to believe (if not outright confirmation) that when iLife was announced last January, they were going to charge for the whole thing until they saw the uproar and decided to only charge for the box set/iDVD.
So maybe last week's timely leaks about the updated G5 lineup was a way to get a sense of public sentiment about the update. Perhaps they had prepared a number of graphics pages with different price points on them, depending on the reaction at places like here. The one that showed up this morning was in the discard pile and somebody or some program accidentally put it up a week later at about the same time of day.
yup.. this is definatley a surpirse for Friday.
Lowered prices ect ect..
Yee Ha!
Now we need to know what that mystery $749 product is!
Either way, I will be bringing my mastercard to the Apple store friday.
And if we have a reduced, g4 tower, a new cube, a 60 gig ipod, or the newton...
its coming home
I wonder.. if we find out about this $749 product by friday. it will be able to be combined with the usally 10% Apple Event Retail Store discount?
hope so....
Lowered prices ect ect..
Yee Ha!
Now we need to know what that mystery $749 product is!
Either way, I will be bringing my mastercard to the Apple store friday.
And if we have a reduced, g4 tower, a new cube, a 60 gig ipod, or the newton...
its coming home
I wonder.. if we find out about this $749 product by friday. it will be able to be combined with the usally 10% Apple Event Retail Store discount?
hope so....
This is not a new price drop. This banner was misposted on the front page and was suppose to be on the education site. In fact you can still see the banner in question on the education store site.