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Despite Patent Settlement, Apple Pulls Bose Merchandise From Its Stores

Posted by timothy on from the yanks-them-straignt-off dept.

Apple has long sold Bose headphones and speakers in its retail stores, including in the time since it acquired Bose-competitor Beats Audio, and despite the lawsuit filed by Bose against Apple alleging patent violations on the part of Beats. That's come to an end this week, though: Apple's dropped Bose merchandise both in its retail locations and online, despite recent news that the two companies have settled the patent suit.

2 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One crap audio brand battling with another by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Informative

    You consider $230 a considerable amount of money? Do you live in Sub-Saharan Africa or some shit?

    I live in Romania, where the headphones I mention cost around half the average monthly salary. There's a wide range between Third World poverty and your presumably US income, and many Eastern Europeans would balk at spending so much for headphones.

  2. Re:Bose is overpriced crap and always has been by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every time I've priced them out against something like Sony, that's correct.

    However, against Asus, who IMO makes better products, they are much more expensive. Let's do it now.

    Holy shit, the only Apple laptop that doesn't use Intel Integrated, is the 15" Macbook Pro with Retina display. It's come along a lot, but still sucks if doing anything 3D that actually uses the graphics card.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
    Differences: +.1GHz Lenovo
    256GB SSD (Lenovo) vs 512GB SSD (Apple)
    Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (Lenovo) vs 2880 x 1800 (Apple)
    Screen size: 15.6 (Lenovo) vs 15.4 (Apple)
    Graphics: 860M (Lenovo) vs 750M (Apple)
    Weight: 5.29 (Lenovo) vs 4.46 lbs (Apple)
    Apple lacks a built in Gigabit Ethernet port. It has 2 Thunderbolt ports (basically can be considered proprietary, given usage at the moment)

    Cost?
      $1,269.99 vs $2499
    So 2 laptops with almost all specs, exceeding the Apple's specs for the same price. (~230 for a 512GB SSD, if you want to increase storage that way, which still puts it at 60% of the cost)