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Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon It really depends where you live, computers of similar spec in NZ can rack near identical prices. I'm not surprised given your location. I've heard some horror stories and jealousy from my friends in Europe as well.

Quote: Originally Posted by Eidorian Sadly based on the perceived value and entirely up to Apple's whim not market prices for said hardware. Um yeah, market value for anything is based on perceived value. Basic economics.

Quote: Originally Posted by KnightWRX You need to learn a thing or two about Harleys, just like people need to learn a thing or two about Macs before calling them overpriced or even expensive. I wonder if my Uncle's repair shop is full of harleys because they break a lot or is it just a lot of people have harleys. BTW, Honda, Yamaha etc make expensive all metal bikes too. They just cater a lot to the 250-600cc commuter market.

Quote: Originally Posted by lilo777 Yeah, but when the words get identical, it's called "talking points" Your statement was so blatantly wrong and so obvious to rebut, that 999 out of a 1000 monkeys would use the same words.

Quote: Originally Posted by mosx Sigh. In your OPINION, you're not sacrificing anything. No, that'd be a fact. As I said before, a feature never needed is a feature not sacrificed. Quote: However, that does not change the fact that Macs are incapable of what I said and you ARE giving up those options, regardless of whether YOU want them or not. See above. Quote: And all of that has nothing to do with what I said about the way OS X...

Quote: Originally Posted by kdarling We do, however, know that Andy Rubin created the Android group. Andy started at Apple, then went to General Magic and worked on Magic Cap . Then, amongst other things, he founded Danger Inc, who created the rather successful Sidekick phone. Ah, the Danger 'HipTop.' Wasn't Danger sucked up by MS and placed into suspended animation? To his credit, Andy's Danger did deploy the first viable...

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-gb; HTC Hero Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1) Android must be more deseirable for the OEMs as it straight off the bat makes a saving on some R&D. Less licencing costs will also lead to cheaper handets or higher profit. I liked my iPhone (and my iPod touch before that) and I'm now loving my Android based hero. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by czachorski There is also a reason that Harley's are less valuable for me. My preference is for bikes that are not as loud and more smooth. A noisy v-twin has never appealed to me, and in fact, detracts from the value of the bike for me. Much like how OS X will detract from the value of a Mac for those who don't like OS X. Another exact analogy. Noisy ? Stock Harleys hardly make a peep. The thing is no one...

It's funny how you have someone in this thread blaming Apple for Gameloft deciding to slow down Android development, yeah big ol bully Apple.