What Are You Doing RIGHT NOW? Part ELEVEN: Through the Wormhole...

[bigmf]

Apple makes the iPhone out of ground-up kittens.

[MagicMurderBag7]

Didn't you FC Fly By Night, Aly? You should do fine on the Yes tracks.

[Dadasaurus Rex]

Apple makes the iPhone out of ground-up kittens.

And they have children building them from inside an abondoned chemical plant.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Apple makes the iPhone out of ground-up kittens.

Weather-treated with a mixture of whale oil and children's tears.

Didn't you FC Fly By Night, Aly? You should do fine on the Yes tracks.

Can't do it reliably, but yeah, I have a few times.

[Bront20]

Its not just Apple. As mentioned Andriod phones run about the same price. Also Alienware and Beats both are exactly the same and there are probably others that I cant think of at the moment. People always seem to forget or fail to mention this when talking about this, because its cool to hate on Apple.

Phones that run that price that aren't Apple phones kick the crap out of the iPhone specs.

Alienware machines are top end tech, often tweaked beyond normal specs (Overclocked), so yes, high markup, but there's a reason for it.

Not familiar with Beats.

If you want to find a better markup villian than Apple, try Monster Cable. There's no reason to spend more than $10-20 for an HDMI cable, or just about any cable for that matter.

Apple, meanwhile, charges you the extra money simply because 'we're Apple and people will pay it'. Sure, other companies do that to some extent, particularly in the high end/luxury level of things, but Apple is charging high end/luxury prices for middle of the road products that just happen to be blessed by Apple.

Now, don't get me wrong, I personally don't care for Apple, but I understand their approach and the mass market appeal, and they have, for a while, innovated products that were initially better than anything else out there. However, they're sluggish to move beyond them. See how the specs on the iPhone 5 lag behind things like the Galaxy S3 or even the Galaxy Nexus, or how Apple STILL doesn't support Bluray (at least last I checked).

[www1221]

Alienware machines are top end tech, often tweaked beyond normal specs (Overclocked), so yes, high markup, but there's a reason for it.

Nope. You are paying for brand name. Laptops should never be sold as gaming machines in the first place. If you want to stay under Dell you can get an XPS with on par specs for much cheaper than the Alienware. Dont even get me started on their desktops.

[jimmychou]

I really love Love spreads, thanks ssss

[sillystou]

lol pink phlod....

[SheSaidSheSaid]

I really love Love spreads, thanks ssss

I never discovered it until I got the Classic Rock Track Pack for Xbox (one good thing that came out of my Xbox dalliance). It and Funk #49. I never got that track pack for PS3 because I already had more than half the songs on it (now, I have a good 3/4ths). Suffice it to say I am very pleased that I found those songs.

[www1221]

Xbox dalliance

WHOA! Inappropriate! :P