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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Expensive International Macs
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.094856.3679@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 4 Dec 90 23:48:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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It seems that the reason that Apple is making such large sums of money 
nowadays is that us foreigners (from Finland, New Zealand, Japan and 
Australia) are paying about twice as much for the same equipment as 
are the US customers. Since we account for about 1/2 of the number of boxes 
sold, then we must account for more than 1/2 of the profit margin.

I would like to hear someone admit that the price has little to do with the 
cost of production and shipping, and much more to do with the market - the 
US market is much more competitive, so to sell ANYTHING, they have to 
charge less.

Other countries, for example, do not have the NeXT - and if we do get it, 
the pricing will no doubt follow all of the other big computer companies' 
policies.
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Phil Ryan                                         
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
Canberra, Australia                               
pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741