Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion

Iria · Jan 5, 2009, 11:30 PM

With Apple's last Macworld keynote speech just hours away, Microsoft is again talking up the idea of an "Apple tax" that people pay when they opt for a Mac over a Windows PC.
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ET3D · Jan 6, 2009, 10:10 AM

Yeah, really smart doing a comparison just before Macworld. The Mac specs will shortly change.

IvanV · Jan 6, 2009, 08:45 PM

Ah well, propaganda, what can you expect? At least it's based on the real data (and yeah, the Apple's part of it is likely to change soon, but so is the data for HP and Dell, this is the PC industry, after all).

Tipstaff · Jan 8, 2009, 02:55 AM

How do you compare a company like Dell, whose R&D is almost nothing, licenses their operating systems en mass from Microsoft no less, makes money in huge multi-year corporate leasing's of hardware and service, doesn't make their own hardware, and has companies paying them to put their trial ware onto the computers they sell (including Microsoft), to someone like Apple who, while they don't make their products (instead getting companies like Asus or Foxconn to do the work), spends millions in R&D for their own hardware, their own software, AND their own operating system? Apple tax? Try R&D recovery, brand name worth, and profit.

Here's something to consider: If people are buying the more expensive product, consistently, it makes you wonder why, doesn't it? Take that comparative. The fact that Dells and HPs computers in that comparative are cheaper, is it because they are actually cheaper, or is it that both have priced their products to sway people into buying them because they are losing customers to Apple? If the latter is true, is it because these consumers don't like the PC, or could it be because they don't like Windows? More importantly, could it be because they don't like or trust Microsoft?

Jan 5, 2009, 11:30 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion With Apple's last Macworld keynote speech just hours away, Microsoft is again talking up the idea of an "Apple tax" that people pay when they opt for a Mac over a Windows PC. _____________ Source: Beyond Binary

Jan 6, 2009, 10:10 AM	#2
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 3,057 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	Re: Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion Yeah, really smart doing a comparison just before Macworld. The Mac specs will shortly change.

Jan 6, 2009, 08:45 PM	#3
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,917 Rep Power: 336 System Specs	Re: Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion Ah well, propaganda, what can you expect? At least it's based on the real data (and yeah, the Apple's part of it is likely to change soon, but so is the data for HP and Dell, this is the PC industry, after all). __________________ If anyone has Portal 2 and hasn't played the co-op and wants to do me a favour, let me know (PM me or whatever).

Jan 8, 2009, 02:55 AM	#4
Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 191 System Specs	Re: Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion How do you compare a company like Dell, whose R&D is almost nothing, licenses their operating systems en mass from Microsoft no less, makes money in huge multi-year corporate leasing's of hardware and service, doesn't make their own hardware, and has companies paying them to put their trial ware onto the computers they sell (including Microsoft), to someone like Apple who, while they don't make their products (instead getting companies like Asus or Foxconn to do the work), spends millions in R&D for their own hardware, their own software, AND their own operating system? Apple tax? Try R&D recovery, brand name worth, and profit. Here's something to consider: If people are buying the more expensive product, consistently, it makes you wonder why, doesn't it? Take that comparative. The fact that Dells and HPs computers in that comparative are cheaper, is it because they are actually cheaper, or is it that both have priced their products to sway people into buying them because they are losing customers to Apple? If the latter is true, is it because these consumers don't like the PC, or could it be because they don't like Windows? More importantly, could it be because they don't like or trust Microsoft? __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.