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I think because Germany is more competitive, particularly for electronics. So it's always worth checking prices online
Sometimes price differences can be even more astonishing than that, even among the amazons. Some years ago I was looking for an economics textbook, written by an American, printed and made in America. Amazon.com wanted $130,- for it, amazon.co.uk didn't have it, and amazon.de sold it to me for €35,- You'd think prices would be comparable if you're buying from the same company, but as you can see, that's not always the case |
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To answer the original question, Microsoft.
Apple have a policy of total control freakery. You can only run "their" operating system on their hardware unless you hack it, even though a Mac is just a PC, but in a shiny box that looks pretty. If you want to develop for one of their phones, you have to buy a licence from them in order to put the application you have written onto your own phone, and said licence costs about £50 (at least, it did when I bought one eight or so years back) and after the one year subscription runs out, your application that you wrote and they graciously allowed you to install on your own phone, stops working unless you pay them for another year. Absurd and controlling. To interface between my iphone and my mac mini I had to use this appalling software called "itunes" which made me want to kill someone, probably whichever person in apple management allowed this thing to be released to the public. They want to get you ensnared in their ecosystem - desktop / laptop, phone, OS, applications. It's awful. And people say "it just works", well, maybe, if by "just" you mean "barely". I call it "their" operating system as ultimately OSX is a port of BSD Unix, it was not an original work. I didn't think it was possible to do a bad port of BSD, until I got my Mac mini home from the shop. Professionally, I develop for Windows and Linux and I run both OS at home (debian is my preferred Linux distro). I complain about Microsoft a lot, both dealing with them and programming applications for their operating system (people I'm friends with on facebook will be used to my long technical rants about the Windows API, even if they don't understand them), but even so I'll take Windows any day over OSX. |
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I couldn't care less if Apple were control freaks , as long as the product does what it's supposed to day in day out for hours on end.
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So that,s how that stuff got there! "Honest m'lud, an Ubuntu user did it and ran away!" That's a hell of a defence. |
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