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3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle
destinyland writes "Black Friday has touched off a three-way price war between Apple, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Kobo readers dropped their price to just $99 to compete with the Nook, only to discover that Barnes and Noble was lowering the price on their touchscreen Nooks to $79, to compete with the new $79 Kindle from Amazon. And meanwhile, Apple has announced aggressive pricing on all Apple products for Black Friday, reportedly including $100 off on MacBook and iMac products, and a $61 discount on the iPad 2."
Not only will it likely last longer, check EBay for resale values on Macbooks. You might be pretty surprised. My windows laptop, same vintage as my Macbook Pro, isn't worth much. My Macbook Pro, however, will earn me a significant amount towards the next version if I were to sell it today. If, that is, I were feeling like I needed to sell it, which I don't, because it's really pretty darned sweet. Illuminated keyboard, fast dual core, lots of ram, fabulous native display and drives a 2nd display without a problem, big drive, all manner of I/O, wifi, bluetooth. And yes, that very tough aluminum case. I often use it to run my software-defined radio in my vehicle, which is a *very* demanding application. Doing the same thing on the supposedly comparable windows laptop - dual core, same ram and clock speed - I get lag and audio gaps; on the Macbook pro, not only does the app run smoothly, I can surf the web via wifi at the same time without glitchery. Part of the advantage is OSX; it does very well at multitasking... but the hardware is frankly awesome, if that's all that matters to you (I've bought my last Windows product, myself, and quit doing Windows development... the bottom line is the Mac is better in almost every way, the one exception being Apple, which is a company I think of as just as "evil" as Microsoft... just a bunch of dickheads. But they do make the best gear.)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I know this is the 'popular' opinion amongst geeks of today, but can you really not see the technical reasons why certain Apple products sell? In particular, the Apple II, the original Mac, the iTunes Music Store and the iPhone were definite leaps forward (versus the competition) and each deserved their succeses on merit.