[OT] Cringely on BootCamp's future

[Bob Warren]

Mark Smith wrote:

 >Why on earth is a mac mini three times as expensive in Brazil as in
the US? Is it Apple, local distributors  or some kind of tax? Surely,
if not a tax (in which case, it's not a question of business logic),
there's some kind of opportunity for someone there.

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Just to clarify a little more (at the expense of bloating the UR-List a 
bit - sorry):

If I remember correctly, it was Apple Brasil's own recommended price 
that was about 3 times the US price originally. Of course, what taxes 
were invisibly embedded in this price, I cannot say, since VAT and stuff 
like that is never declared here.

And remembering a little better, I think that this price still held up 
until only a short while ago.

Could it be that Apple are at last beginning to see a little light with 
their very recent drastic price cuts here in Brazil? Or has the 
Brazilian government decided to punish Apple a little less? We may never 
know.

Bob