Oh dear – things are getting worse and worse by the day for the careless Apple developer who left an iPhone 4G prototype in a bar after popping in for just a few quiet drinks. (For those who are new to the story, all you need to know can be found here, and then here). In short, Apple have compounded the initial individual blunder by taking rather excessive action in attempting to retrieve the phone – by having Gizmodo editor, Jason Chen’s, house searched and property seized – due to the belief that he had been sent the phone by the original finder.
Now, for a company which spends a lot of cash trying to look nice in expensive TV adverts,…
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We recently featured a piece on Sony’s rather belated launch of the PS2 in Brazil a few months ago, and as if that wasn’t evidence enough of the ultra raw deal that Brazilian tech consumers get, then this piece from Gizmodo should leave little room for doubt…
Gizmodo compared prices of Macbooks in some of the territories where Apple officially operates (i.e. not through importers), and discovered that Brazil is unsurprisingly the most expensive region for buying such items. This certainly follows that general trend (it is not just Macbooks that cost more over there), but it does also reveal a slightly disproportionate mark-up, in that Apple products seem to be even more over-priced there than other electronics (pretty much double…
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