Then the right question to ask Apple would be: “Why isn’t the MacBook 70€ cheaper?”
Because if it isn’t, blaming the EU law would just be a puny diversion from company greed.
Apple is pretty famous for doing a lot of price ladder stuff. You can jump up to the next tier of a product by paying an extra $100 or so, and then once you get into that next tier, you see that the upgraded product has a cool feature you can unlock for another $100 or so.
Those price ladders are pretty carefully crafted and they make the company a lot of money. I’ll bet that they’re going to keep those price points the same until all MacBooks and iPads are being sold sans charger.
That said, there are ways that Apple could’ve given people a complimentary chargers if they needed one. Hell, if I spend n about of money, give me credit toward a free item.
When Samsung did that around here (claiming they were importing the idea from the EU), they sent people the charger for free if they asked. They started including the charger again later, so I guess it wasn’t very well received.
But well, shortly after, when Apple did it, and charged people $15 for the charger, they were heavily fined.
Then the right question to ask Apple would be: “Why isn’t the MacBook 70€ cheaper?”
Because if it isn’t, blaming the EU law would just be a puny diversion from company greed.
Apple is pretty famous for doing a lot of price ladder stuff. You can jump up to the next tier of a product by paying an extra $100 or so, and then once you get into that next tier, you see that the upgraded product has a cool feature you can unlock for another $100 or so.
Those price ladders are pretty carefully crafted and they make the company a lot of money. I’ll bet that they’re going to keep those price points the same until all MacBooks and iPads are being sold sans charger.
That said, there are ways that Apple could’ve given people a complimentary chargers if they needed one. Hell, if I spend n about of money, give me credit toward a free item.
When Samsung did that around here (claiming they were importing the idea from the EU), they sent people the charger for free if they asked. They started including the charger again later, so I guess it wasn’t very well received.
But well, shortly after, when Apple did it, and charged people $15 for the charger, they were heavily fined.