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[Grieve]

I wasn't refering to a contract, as not everyone has the patience to wait for their upgrade.

But like I said in my reply to Slamz, almost everyone in the US gets a phone on contract, so it doesn't really matter.

In the links you sent, the list price of the razr was higher, but it was on sale. Apple products are almost never on sale, because they don't need to put them on sale to sell. Other companies have sales because it's the only way they can offload the product.

When HP had a firesale of it's TouchPad (dropping from $500 to $99), it wasn't because they were a smart company picking the right price, or because they wanted to help consumers. It was because they couldn't sell it any other way.

While I am aware the starting price of the macbook air is currently 999$, that is the 11" 64gb version. They can go up to as much as 1600$ to my knowledge, so I decided to take what I figured was fair and went with the 1300$ one. You may disagree, that's fine, but at least I didn't use the high end of the spectrum, where as you're clearly citing the lowest..

*shrug* You pay for quality. I can get a pair of jeans for at Walmart for $5. I can get a burger from McDonalds for a dollar. You can get PC notebooks for way less the the cheapest Macbook, and also for way more than the most expensive one. It's just a bigger range. Apple doesn't do the low-end.

Do I think there are 200 million fanatics? no. Do all the fanatics I know and have dealt with don't just settle for one device? They sure don't. I think that the hook is many people that go apple then try to fill every single niche in their life with an apple product. Tivo? Why not apple TV. Stereo? Why not iPod dock. and so on.

I think that's more brand loyalty. I knew plenty of people who used to only buy Sony video and audio equipment back in the day. Other people only buy Samsung appliances. If you have a good experience with a company, why wouldn't you want to stick with them?