"dave" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:33:33 -0700, John Smith wrote:

On 10/5/2011 8:10 PM, J R wrote:
I just now heard on TV news he has died. cuhulin


I guess you just can't keep charging people too much for hardware and OS
forever ... someone elses' turn now ...

Regards,
JS

That's not the business Apple is in; they sell a lifestyle of form of
substance.


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Besides, Apple was extant in the market before PC's (the original Apple
computer was something like $3000, a clone was about $2300, IIRC). Apple
maintained a following and indeed an increasing market base even after PC's
got so cheap that most anyone could afford one.

If someone likes a product enough to pay what seems to be an exhorbitant
price for it, even in the face of a much cheaper alternative, then that is
what they call "market forces" in operation. The consumer, in this case, has
actually set the price by buying the product. If nobody were buying it, it
would either become cheaper or taken off the market.