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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive International Macs
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.111104.26237@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 5 Dec 90 11:11:04 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.002230.13579@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Comment-To: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu

In article <1990Dec5.002230.13579@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

> Not necessarily.  For instance, Apple is an American company and much of its
> production is thus oriented towards English.  There is probably some non-zero
> amount of money involved in translating sofware, manuals, etc. into French,
> Swiss French, German, Swiss German, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic, Hebrew,
> Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Dutch, Faerose
> (Faeroese???), etc.  (BTW there is System Software localized to each of the
> above, and possibly more).

I'm sure this has _some_ effect on those non-english speaking countries, but
can hardly be a major factor in the prices in New Zealand, Australia, and
Great Britain.
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