[Cube] Newer OS X for Cube

[atoa]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> On 21 Apr, 2007, at 5:38 PM, atoa wrote:
>
>> 
>> No. You can buy it for $129 at fastmac. And Apple only charged $9.95 for 
>> the exchange.
>> 
> I had never seen that it was available to the general public (store shelves) 
> in CD mode. "Only charging $9.95 for the exchange" is still costing more than 
> the original sale price for the same end product.

I'm not sure where you've been recently, but there are a lot of products 
available to the general public that are not on store shelves. And the end 
product is NOT the same. If it were, this thread wouldn't have even 
started.

>
>>> 
>>> My thought is that you have already bought the 10.4 version and should not 
>>> have to spend more money to make it work on a non-DVD native machine. It 
>>> should have been available at the outset in both DVD and CD versions for 
>>> the customer to choose from. Of course, I also believe that we shouldn't 
>>> have to pay for an incremental upgrade, ie: 10.4.x to 10.5.x. It should be 
>>> priced in the same manner as versions 7, 8, and 9 were.
>>> 
>> 
>> Seems to me that if you bought the DVD version, and knew you didn't have a 
>> DVD drive available, it isn't Apple's fault. Apple prices its products in 
>> line with what it thinks the market will bear. What's wrang with that?
>> 
> You are missing the gist of the paragraph. Why should we have to pay more to 
> get the same product in a different packaging? I think it should have been 
> made available in both forms from the start. That would have made it 
> available to all users instead of only to those who have DVD readers 
> installed.
>
I didn't miss anything. It isn't the same product, in different packaging. 
See above.

I suspect that Apple made the sensible decision to distribute Tiger in DVD 
form because the extra costs involved in marketing the CD version would 
not have resulted in any significant additional gross, let alone net, 
revenue.

>>> This is a case of Apple learning how to get more from its customers, just 
>>> like MonopolySoft has been doing since Whinedoze v95.
>> 
>> Ditto.
>
> Ditto to what? Is this a rebuttal or just a confirmation of MonopolySoft 
> practices? Apple was doing well by its customers without copying this subtle 
> form of extortionist pricing.

Ditto was short for: Apple prices its products in line with what it thinks
  the market will bear. What's wrang with that?

If you think their pricing is extortionist, you are perfectly free to not 
buy from them.


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