September 6th, 2007Apple (re) invents the PDA!
With the arrival of the ipod Touch, Apple seems to re-invent the PDA (remember?, the big thing you carried along with your phone).
It may be named ipod but has in fact more to do with a complete PDA with great AV functionalities. Do I like it? Certainly but personnally I can’t be carrying a phone + such kind of device, too heavy, too many cables.
Second point I wanted to address is how pissed of I’m with the price differences between europe & US. Even if the Euro is more than 30% more expensive than the Dollar, they still price their devices at higher prices in absolute! The differences reach 40% in some cases. That’s insane.
What do you think?
Tags: ipodtouch
September 6th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
In great fairness Florent, and to compare apples to apples you should here use the “HT” euro price in your calculations since in the U.S. prices are indicated before tax … In case of the 4GB nano the max price difference will then drop from over 40% to a mere
22% reducing the insanity a bit. From there it will still be legit to ask yourself how Apple could justify this kind markup in a country where the fruit company is still not operating one of the branded brick & mortar store - Cheers.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Yep, you’re right. But to be completely accurate, we should also measure the VAT rates differences between the different American states that vary from from 8.5% to 16.7% as can be seen here.
BTW, is this you Laurent?
September 7th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Can’t blame Steve Jobs for us having a 19.7% VAT!
– Laurent LT
September 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Yep, but still 20 something difference…
September 7th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I’m not sure but you also have to take into consideration the license fee for private copy (just applies in France).
September 8th, 2007 at 5:15 am
I’m quite happy to be in Canada in that regards; electronics is much cheaper in general.