Good one XDBecause Macs are better, obviously.
Good one XDBecause Macs are better, obviously.
Way to polish yourself up.Sales and retail, I am a sales person.
Also I work for Wal*Mart in the entertainment department, what I am not allowed to reveal is cost of marketing and how much we actually pay and how much it actually costs to make a product. As well other sensitive marketing information.
And before anyone goes, "Lol, Wal*Mart, what do you know?" You really don't know the information you can get away with when you are a manager in training
I don't think this person is embellishing/polishing her credentials in a demeaning way to put people down -- it's just a response to such marketing schemes. It's information acquired in her position that she's willing to share.Way to polish yourself up.
I am actually not polishing anything up when it comes down to this. There is only so much detail I am allowed to share when it comes down how Wal*Mart markets and even then it can be considered pushing it. The actual truth is, we aren't actually allowed to reveal details like, how much the product is marked up by, how much we pay for them, ect. All those details are easily found by any associate, but can't be spoken about to the public. There's other details that pretty much any associate can find and or knows about when i comes down to how the store works, that can not be released to the public.Way to polish yourself up.
It's interesting how you can claim "secret insider knowledge" even though you just described
yourself as an assistant department supervisor, which is barely a step above sales associate.
It's like a cell block trustee claiming to have intimate insider knowledge of the prison industrial
complex, even though they're really just a glorified snitch.
They're made from laser cut aluminum and have custom battery cells that maximize every inch of space. You can get the same amount of power for $500 from a PC but the battery won't last as long and it will be made of shitty molded plastic. They also have like a nationwide array of walk-in service centers that *gasp* cost money to operate. If you're planning to upgrade every 18 months, anyway maybe you can work with something that breaks after 2 years of use.So that's why they cost more than $1,000?
I never said they were big, just that we aren't allowed to share them. Sure no one in the public would give a rats nuts to know how much we pay for when we get a laptop, but that doesn't mean I am allowed to say anything about it.There aren't any big secrets in retail.
It's Just that most people don't care that much.
Well, I don't doubt Apple's quality and servicing towards their respective customers. The issue I have is the price of their products and their proprietary software shoved down users' throats. iTunes is my biggest gripe. There's a saying that you pay money for what you get, which in essence is, "if you're willing to pay the big bucks, you're getting quality and reliability". Sure, you may get that with Apple, but does the hefty price tag really justify a purchase when there are a plethora of other options available that may be a shade under Apple's quality, but with a more appealing price? It's a subjective subject for sure.They're made from laser cut aluminum and have custom battery cells that maximize every inch of space. You can get the same amount of power for $500 from a PC but the battery won't last as long and it will be made of shitty molded plastic.
They're made from laser cut aluminum and have custom battery cells that maximize every inch of space. You can get the same amount of power for $500 from a PC but the battery won't last as long and it will be made of shitty molded plastic. They also have like a nationwide array of walk-in service centers that *gasp* cost money to operate. If you're planning to upgrade every 18 months, anyway maybe you can work with something that breaks after 2 years of use.
I can verify that stores dont add 1000€, i know the amount and it isn't different from other laptops and relativly speaking it is a decent price.Just for the product to be sold to a store for maybe 100$ max, then marked up to 1000$.
Trust me, you always think you are paying for "work put into the product," but that's a bit naïve. The truth is, with most electronics, you are mostly paying for a store's mark up.
Macs are rare around here, but I've still had some come in, including laptops. The batteries are definitely different shapes, but other than that they weren't anything special. Similar battery life to other laptops and expected lifespan. Maybe they're more resistant to people not properly taking care of the battery, but I didn't see any difference. That said, there was very little there for people to mess up on the surface, so maybe it's better for those that don't really want to have to take care of their system.They're made from laser cut aluminum and have custom battery cells that maximize every inch of space. You can get the same amount of power for $500 from a PC but the battery won't last as long and it will be made of shitty molded plastic. They also have like a nationwide array of walk-in service centers that *gasp* cost money to operate. If you're planning to upgrade every 18 months, anyway maybe you can work with something that breaks after 2 years of use.
I also despise iTunes. Why should people be forced to run their proprietary software? From a consumer's perspective, they should have a choice.
Dude do you throw your computers? if not your windows pc should be fine there's no need for aliminiumThey're made from laser cut aluminum and have custom battery cells that maximize every inch of space. You can get the same amount of power for $500 from a PC but the battery won't last as long and it will be made of shitty molded plastic. They also have like a nationwide array of walk-in service centers that *gasp* cost money to operate. If you're planning to upgrade every 18 months, anyway maybe you can work with something that breaks after 2 years of use.
of course they don't add 1000's of euro's markup but there is a shit ton of markup let's take a snackbar for example first of all the stuff gets delivered to a Storage then the snackbar buys the goods that storage has and then your maybe 50 cent fries suddenly cost 1.50I can verify that stores dont add 1000€, i know the amount and it isn't different from other laptops and relativly speaking it is a decent price.
Dude do you throw your computers? if not your windows pc should be fine there's no need for aliminium
I know the feels .-. except my last laptop died because it electrocuted itself 2 weeks old!My Acer laptop melted itself. As for 'throwing'... no, but I have seen plenty of laptops have their cord tripped over and pulled to the ground. Almost happened to my mac, but the plug is designed to come out when that happens and not pull the laptop down with it. Saved me quite a few times, actually. I'm also known to bang my laptop against stuff accidentally
It's also worth noting that a direct spec comparison doesn't work, because the optimizations between mac hardware/software are much better than those of windows or linux machines.
Yes, exactly. iTunes is just an absolute pain to use. I wish Apple just stuck with transferring files back and forth through Windows Explorer. Much simpler, and none of this sync nonsense.As for the iPhone one of the biggest gripes about it is the fact that I can't just hook it up to a computer and transfer music to it without having to go through iTunes. I had enough troubles with iTunes when I used to have an iPod, which are too lengthy to mention.