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09/09/2006 03:38:11 PM · #1 |
So when apple re-released aperture a few months back and dropped the price significantly everyone who had previously purchased a copy at the original price was sent a check from apple to make up the difference(this was about three months ago).
So now they have dropped the prices of the imacs significantly. In april I ordered a 17" imac with 2 gigs of ram and with an educational discount it was $1613. Yesterday I got an email announcing the new 24" imac and checked after checking the price on it out of curiousity I quickly noticed that the prices of all these machines has dropped tremedously. In fact I can now purchase the same 17" imac with 2 gigs of ram and a faster processor than what I currently have (all other specs are the same) for $1257 with an educational discount. I knew I got one early and probably paid a little much for it, but a $400 drop in price for the exact same computer, come on. I want apple to send me a rebate too like they did for early buyers of aperture. It's probably unlikely as aperture is completely different in the sense that apple wants to strongly compete with adobe to become the standard in raw processing and editing and this would open a whole new market for apple. Whereas their computer market supports itself.
But a $400 drop in price come on. I feel ripped off.
What do you guys think? |
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09/09/2006 03:46:01 PM · #2 |
| Happens all the time - you will always get a better spec machine if you wait, but that is not much use really :-) |
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09/09/2006 03:50:19 PM · #3 |
I'd be a rich man if I got a rebate for everything I bought that quickly dropped in price.
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09/09/2006 03:52:59 PM · #4 |
| That's why I wait a while before buying tech stuff.... Hell, I never DID get around to buying an 8-track before they faded into oblivion! |
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09/09/2006 03:53:35 PM · #5 |
I want a rebate on my car, I bought it used for $9000 5 years ago and now I can get the same year/model, current mileage for $2000.
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09/09/2006 03:56:09 PM · #6 |
haha Fotomann, Excuses excuses.
You guys are right,
I guess my only complaint is if you do something special for one person or group, It's really hard not to do the same for eveyone else without backlash. However, If not that many people speak up they won't.
I'm just a poor college student who could really benefit from that $200 apple could rebate me. And I'm really upset for not waiting, for $50 more than what I paid in april for my machine I could have gotten the same computer, my eye 1, and an academic copy of cs2,
but only if I'd waited.
Thanks guys |
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09/09/2006 04:01:57 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Care Bear:
haha Fotomann, Excuses excuses.
You guys are right,
I guess my only complaint is if you do something special for one person or group, It's really hard not to do the same for eveyone else without backlash. However, If not that many people speak up they won't.
I'm just a poor college student who could really benefit from that $200 apple could rebate me. And I'm really upset for not waiting, for $50 more than what I paid in april for my machine I could have gotten the same computer, my eye 1, and an academic copy of cs2,
but only if I'd waited.
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Sometimes what seems like "something special for one person or group" may actually just be a promotion or investment for one product or company. Take Microsoft for instance. They donate TONS of computers to schools. It's an investment for them. It seems generous, but all those kids grow up using Windows. So what do they buy when they get older? Windows machines that all use Microsoft software. |
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09/09/2006 04:06:48 PM · #8 |
Here's a direct answer to your original question: What do I think?
R&D's got to be paid for, else nobody could afford to do it.
Early purchasers always pay a disproportionate share of R&D to get access soonest to new capability. Think of it as a premium price to obtain premium delivery of premium capability.
Prices always fall on technology as new innovation obsoletes earlier innovation. Happens in everything from cameras to computers to cars to clothing to, ..., well the list goes on and on.
Here's another example: Look up the price differentials between Photoshop CS2, PSE 4, PSE 3, PSE 2 and PSE1. If you think the price of CS2 is a rip off (not expressing an opinion here, it's a hypothetical) then buy a Photoshop version that is less fully functional at a lower price.
What do I think? Get over it. Either embrace the premium price for premium delivery and premium capability ... or wait until the premium innovation becomes common place and prices fall. All else is a tempest in a teapot. |
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09/09/2006 04:17:38 PM · #9 |
Is it fair? Well, probably not. But then life isn't fair.
What do I think? I think that technology moves on fairly quickly. I only bought my EOS 20D a short while ago - since then it's been replaced, and probably lost over half its value. Sucks be to me, but that's how things go.
Meanwhile, I'm still enjoying using my camera. I imagine that you're enjoying using your Imac and have been enjoying it since April. The price of that is a few hundred dollars. |
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09/09/2006 06:25:21 PM · #10 |
| If you use cutting edge technology you should expect to bleed (from your wallet). : ) |
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09/09/2006 06:47:25 PM · #11 |
I bought 2Gb of high performance DDR2 for £170 last week. Today the same memory costs £230. Do I owe somebody £60?
; ) |
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09/09/2006 06:59:38 PM · #12 |
| Also from what I have read the program was very bad at first and many of those that bought it at first were angry and the rebate was to make them happy and stop giving bad word of mouth. |
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