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I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

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Re: I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

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Post by d136o »

While working on a BigCo product that produced invoices to advertisers in different countries I learned that there are different local laws around invoicing and how a final price is shown to a customer. In the US all prices in our application were exclusive of taxes, which were added after a total cost for customer was computed. For Brazil, a multi month and multi team effort ensued to assure variable tax rates could be applied to different customers and so a only a final price/cost inclusive of “taxes” would be shown to advertisers.

… this makes me wonder if taxes/“cost of doing business” is the true cause (something the author waves away without data, and which I don’t have either :) …

Re: I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

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Post by dylan604 »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #5

Won't this soon be Russia now that Apple has cut all sales with the country?

Russia will be the new Cuba with phone tech 50 years old instead of cars.

Or, they'll just keep supplying from China and not really notice

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Post by dhosek »

Even before I clicked the link, I was sure the answer was Brazil. It's not so much the taxes that raise the prices as the tariffs (which are kind of invisible taxes in that they are paid through higher prices rather than directly—which is part of what made a former president's boasting about raising tariffs somewhat absurd. It seemed he believed that the exporting country paid the price of the tariffs and not domestic consumers in the form of higher prices). I remember that there were plans to build a Foxconn factory in Brazil specifically to manufacture iPhones for the Brazilian market because of the tariffs (I don't know if this ever happened, I think maybe it did?).

Re: I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

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Post by dylan604 »

vaghetti wrote: post #3
zenosmosis wrote: post #2

I live in Nicaragua and they are pretty expensive here. 14" Macbook Pro with M1 Pro, 16GB / 1TB set me back $3350 USD.

https://themacindex.com/variants/MKGT3/macbook-pro-14-inch-m... It can always get worse :)

I was thinking that a $3000+ anything from Apple just doesn't sound mind blowing. Then again, I'm always one to play the game of max everything out on Apple's new thing, and then think about how many other things that could buy. Regional differences apply, but you could easily buy a really decent car for some Apple gear maxed out (think MacPro) or just a daily beater for the price of a maxed out MBP laptop. The fact the new M1Ultra maxed is <$10k was a bit shocking.

Re: I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet

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Post by dhosek »

vaghetti wrote: post #3
zenosmosis wrote: post #2

I live in Nicaragua and they are pretty expensive here. 14" Macbook Pro with M1 Pro, 16GB / 1TB set me back $3350 USD.

https://themacindex.com/variants/MKGT3/macbook-pro-14-inch-m... It can always get worse :)

Fascinating site—I was surprised to see Thailand as the cheapest country on the list, although I realize that I know nothing about their trade policies.
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