@Choto Cheeta,
I agree that they should lower the prices, as is evident by my article, but they should not target the low end of the market, like you want them to.
They will never do that and that's good. Apple has a brand value to maintain. The iMac is the most competitively priced Mac in the line-up, followed by the Mac Mini and Mac Pro. They won't, and shouldn't, slash the prices of these products.
The only Macs that need some rethinking of the price are the MacBooks - all of them - and the accessories.
People who still prefer CRTs or look for notebooks in the range of forties are not potential Apple customers and Apple has no intention to cater for them either. Would BMW ever release a car that costs less than Rs. 10 lac, no matter how much the demand for it? No, they won't.
I don't have a problem with Apple's products being expensive. Like I said, I'm ready to pay a premium for quality. The problem creeps in when they start charging 90K for sub-notebooks, which is too darned expensive even for the high end consumers.
Hope I've made my point clear.
Another point. You're overlooking a lot of points in your comparison which shows the MacBook Air being 40K more expensive than its counterparts. That's a skewed comparison and completely untrue. You're taking the best of Apple and comparing it with the worst in the industry, completely overlooking the advantages of the Apple product and the disadvantages of the adversary. And you're completely overlooking the advantages on the software side of things. It is an unfair comparison.
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Originally Posted by Choto Cheeta
I would say a complete MacMini is at 32-33k then (UPS / Input device / Display)...  |
And that's an
excellent price for it.