Posts by ijoyner

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Okay, how can you possibly know that?   No, repeating it doesn't make it true. Denial does not make it false. I'm not claiming to be an expert. In...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Good! Then maybe tell some?   Or perhaps customer B lives where the laws are different, the taxes are different, the regulations are different,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Again, no. What don't you understand about the concept?   If customer A is paying more for a product than customer B, customer A is effectively...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  Unbelievable. Well, it doesn't matter what you or I believe. What matters is the truth.

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  Why should a device that sells a fraction of the units in one county and therefore has less economics of scale when you include the PSU, labeling, licensing, standards testing,...

Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie  But if they have different prices compared to other countries won't 'everyone' go to the cheapest country to buy Apple products?   Since they have different prices,...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  But if it was $99 it wouldn't be? China and India have an overwhelmingly high rate of poverty but that doesn't mean that everyone is poor. They so many people that even at...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Nonsense. Name one thing that Java or Flash can do that no other tool can do. Again, it's mostly lazy developers who keep them going. I'm no great fan of Java or Flash. But...

Great. More of this Java version nightmare. Online web version checker tells me it can't detect Java. Terminal tells me Java 1.6.0_37 (why the 1 in front?). I thought I'd upgraded to Oracle Java 1.7.0_13, but maybe this was disabled....

Quote: Originally Posted by gcguy  Time to really start dealing with these people. We are too cozy with them. Screw them. We don't need their money or cheap crap. Plenty of countries can take their place. No more business...