So then, what should the National Org. of Geek Consumers do
about AppleÂ? (Er, not-just-because they already have too much gelt to actually count (imagine how many years to count 1011 bills.))
The new iMacs pay The Price for unnecessarily-shrunk cases--for no practical reason whatsoever ... except the bogus use of the same rationale as for Macbooks
(they benefit from compact size: Duh.)
Ergo, the only Corporate reason for the shrinkage? a say, putative 'need' ~to fit the boards into the world's biggest lap-top: but why shrink iMac further--on a desktop!??
Clearly to justify their guaranteed monopoly over any present/future memory upgrade, thus to force everyone to buy at their [the world knows:] ludicrously overpriced memory fees.
Geeks are alleged to be 'smarter than your average turnip'; the very appellation is a diss: reflecting a Dumbth Society who Âeare smarter people, and invent (dumbth-grade) ridicule ... accordingly.
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How does one? go about organizing a (threatened? actual?) Geek-boycott/variant of a mondo-greedy Microsoft II, in order to chasten these Armani-suited extortionists.
Or are most geeks so enamored of Shiny/shiny that They Will Pay Anything.. er, forever? no matter how blatant IS the *rip-off?
* That it is pure rip-off is, I presume self-evident: there is NO 'value-add'/no special-fab involved in their memory 'quality'; in fact, the opposite of (some pricey hi-tech "design or special QC" excuse):
It is a matter of record that, like Walmart they bully everyone/in any country to get even lower unit prices than anyone else--for identical devices.
(And the Japan article limns that, like M$'s sordid affair of effectively provoking the early death of Ed Curry by reneging upon construction funds he had advanced 'on promise':
Apple will throw one country's innovative sub-contractor under their bus--once they grok the production secrets--and chisel down YAN China supplier.)
Just another form of death-dealing, I wot.
So then; do they not Earn the sobriquet, Redmond II ??
Is there then, enough (any??) solidarity amidst the techno-literati? Any at all?
This IS Theater! Even I can think of many forms that such a protest might take--[n+1] Ways to embarrass
the greedheads where it hurts: Legitimately besmirching their trendy (now-coasting-on-Jobs' icon) 'pretty toys' rep--as an excuse to Overprice a commodity simply because They Can.
Would the CIEIO like to see public discussion of the scam-part of their bizness--here very clear;
everyone can discover volume-pricing for memory, all of which had better have a decent MTBF. Etc.
Apple can 'infer' the high cost' of 'design', of in-built prettiness etc. You can't check their %profit on most aspects.
On this: you Can.
But in trying to justify the gouging for this commodity: they. no. verbs. Rest case.
Whom do 'we' hire for the Stage Production launch rehearsal next?
(I may be missing something, but to me it seems that: this particular GOUGE has legs, especially for all those who ever HATED an overt rip-off 'about-which-they-could-do-Nada'..
Don't >You?<
