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Apple thinks Europeans are much richer than Americans.
Posted: August 20, 2009 at 2:41 pm in Games/Informatics.. Tagged with: , , , , , , .
Written by woxxy - Bio:
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Apple must be getting the info wrong there in Cupertino: Europeans seem to be willing to be spending/must spend much more than Americans for the objects sold at the Apple Store.

I thought of why and I am considering:

  • Europeans are so stylish they need stylish Apple apparel
  • Europeans earn much much more than Americans, seriously.
  • The shipping for Apple hardware costs over 300 dollars.
  • There’s tax for coolness for USA export.
  • The Apple products sold in europe are more powerfulllll.
  • The extra money is given as charity for USA.
  • ???
  • PROFIT!

Big, fat profit for serious, just check the examples:

euusa1

Let’s ask Google today’s change for Euro/Dollar and Dollar/Euro.

Immagine 15

Immagine 14

And… calcs made:

useur

Everybody can understand the “little price difference”.

This is a difference that is equal for every product, but there’s more.

If you check this link, the promotion “Back to school” in USA: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school

And in Europe (sorry for it being in Italian, there’s no English store here): http://store.apple.com/it/browse/campaigns/back_to_school

If you buy a Mac in USA you get a free iPod Touch, instead in Europe you get a discount for around 75% of its value.

Madness I say.

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    12 Responses to “Apple thinks Europeans are much richer than Americans.”

    1. scizzer12 says:

      That’s quite odd. Good thing I’ll never buy a mac and I’ll certainly never buy it in Europe.

      I’d also like to point out the meme is:
      -List Item 1
      -List Item 2
      -List Item 3 (up to 6)
      -???
      -PROFIT!

    2. MangaOtaku says:

      O__O damn, im never getting a Mac, no matter where i live…….btw, why the hell do you Europeans earn more money!!! …….money, it’s all about the money, damnit

      • woxxy says:

        I doubt we earn more, and if we do, we have less spending power anyway because we have taxes USA doesn’t imagine (though we have things like sanity almost for free…).

    3. meme-kun says:

      well that easy cause europeans are greater :D yeah go europe

    4. Nyarth says:

      In England we’re about average in the prices of Macbooks:

      Macbook Pros are from £899 (13″)

      £899 = €1041/$1482

      Comparing them with international rrps;

      €1149 = £992

      $1199 = £727

      Its a tie between profit and loss :D

    5. M says:

      Man, all of a sudden, all these posts.

      So…Canada wins.

    6. Rizaria says:

      Talk about getting royally shafted. Makes me wonder what the diff is for the Aussie store..*checks*

      Okay..comparison: http://i31.tinypic.com/zpau8.png

      1 USD = 1.207 AUD

      But like everything -particularly electronics and games- sold in Australia, it’s not that simple. xD To Apple, $1,499.00 USD doesn’t equal $1,808.639 AUD, nooo, it equals $2,399.00 AUD.

      It appears we only get the education discount too, no free iPod methinks. We do get free shipping at least.

    7. android13 says:

      I love the cheap old used machines over here in Akiba.

      They’re clean macs, with pretty nice power, with way lower prices. :D

    8. Baldurien says:

      While I do not like Apple as it sucks (that’s a awesome first class troll, do not try to answers that :P), I would like you to remember that Apple is not the only one to do that : there is also Dell, Nintendo, Sony, etc…

      But yes, its sucks :/

    9. Joe-Kerr says:

      Aaaah, again somebody mentions the age old problem of how corporations worldwide seem to believe that 1USD is exactly 1 euro. Despite the fact that it’s almost 1.5 times more.

      Sony has done exactly the same with the ps3 “slim”, because currency rates notwithstanding, everybody knows that 299$ equals 299€.

      And now for something completely different.

      Research indicates that indeed 2 swallows may be able to carry a coconut, funding runs out before experimental cradle for the fruit can be built.

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