American company price gouging has been mentioned here before. Oz MP Ed Husic has tried to get fair play, and succeeded at least partially with Adobe now charging the more or less same price in it's Oz online store as in the USA. I pay something like NZ$53 a month for a full Creative Cloud license, where as they still pay well over the odds in Europe.
Email Ed Husic with specifics, and keep is Oz blood boiling at the injustice of it all.
nathan: with the market power that Apple has, there are things they can do with telcos that Microsoft cannot
Like Negotiate :P
I'm sure they could, if they wanted to. Google, MS, Apple...none of them care overly for the NZ market - it's just not lucrative enough, so they don't put in any effort.
At least you can buy an iphone/idevice from the apple.co.nz store and there is a range of cases/accessories for the idevice you buy. as said earlier in the forum, ms nz dont even have phone cases available.
Samsung has also lifted their game lately they have most devices and all accessories available on the NZ website.
Yeah, but I don't really see the need to be buying direct from the manufacturer in most cases...you're not going to get a better deal. Not here in NZ. At least Google are straight up not even bothering to give us access to devices through the Play Store... Seems the most honest treatment to me "hey, we can't/won't give you any better a deal than you'd get from someone else so we won't even bother"
I'm quite sure in the case of the Nexus 4 and 5 Google Play Store would have been far cheaper than the rip off retail prices we were charged here.. But Google treats us as a tech 3rd world country..
You may well be right, if you compared the price to, say, what you paid at a 2 Degrees store for a Nexus 5. However the online importers were no more expensive than the NZD equivalents of the Play Store prices from the US...
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