Look up the way Google operates in this regard sometime. Makes Apple look like saints.
Looks like we're all subsidising the sinners, eh? Stop using Google if it bothers you, I guess... On 12/03/2013, at 8:26 AM, Harry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Cheers > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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