Hi All,
The profit garnered by Apple in Australia might be half acceptable if they paid
taxes on their Australian profits instead of diverting income through low tax
jurisdictions,
Harry Medlicott
From: Paul Bart
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:53 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Flight recorders/planning software
John, I did not realized that reselling content that somebody else produced
required great deal of R&D. Nor did I realized that 25 % profit on revenue is
necessary to keep Apple Inc afloat. I do realize however, that esentially no
money paid by Australians for products on iTunes find it's way into a local
economy.
BTW, why do we have to return to gliding only after you had your say?
cheers
Paul
On Monday, 11 March 2013, Mike Borgelt wrote:
At 02:29 PM 11/03/2013, you wrote:
On 11/03/2013, at 12:25 , Mike Borgelt < [email protected]>
wrote:
Why screw around wasting your time with Apple OS?
'Cos it's enabled be to bill well over $16,000 per year more for the last 5
years than if I still used windows. Cheap is not always the most cost effective.
I presume that the "be" in the above sentence should read "me" . Do you mean
you are more productive or that the customers pay more for that fact that you
do stuff on a mac?
We're talking about running gliding software, not other uses for macs or
there relatives. What is the market penetration of macs? 10 % or so? If you are
going to write gliding software which is a relatively small market anyway you
really don't want to do and support a mac version as well. Oz Runways chose the
ipad platform for their GA planning and flight software and I can see why.
There was a good number of ipads in use and by choosing to run their software
on that they could support only one platform that was tightly specified. Smart
move and minimises their support issues.
Most gliding software predates the ipad and was originally written for
Windows machines. Given the low cost of netbooks why not simply spend A$200 or
so and buy one just for gliding stuff and going away from home? If you are
going to run gliding software on some Windows emulator why the hell bother with
the mac in the first place?
I did say I thought Apple products were nicely built and they certainly look
nice but my ASUS all-in-one PC running Win 7 looks nice too and far cheaper. I
want a communications/general purpose PC not a fashion or interior decoration
accessory.
Nice to see the bait taken so easily. Stirring Apple fanbois is like shooting
fish in a barrel. If you guys were really convinced you wouldn't be so
sensitive. Reminds me of the global warmenists or the co2mmunists. If the
evidence was so compelling they too wouldn't be so defensive.
LOL.
Mike
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Cheers
Paul
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