Adobe To Australians, Fly To USA For Cheaper Software - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2013, 07:18:44 pm
content: It's been a long-running joke that it's cheaper for Australians to get a plane ticket to the U.S. if they want to buy Adobe's Creative Suite instead of paying local prices. But appearing before a parliamentary inquiry into the disparity between IT prices in Australia and elsewhere, Adobe's local chief appeared to suggest just that."Other companies gave their responses to the inquiry as well.Microsoft said they'll simply charge what the market will bear. Apple tossed out a host of reasons for the price difference; its retail partners, digital content owners, exchange rates, taxes, import duties, and an apparent inability to alter the price set by its U.S. parent company.http://www.itnews.com.au/News/337464,microsoft-to-aussies-well-charge-what-you-can-bear.aspx

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2013, 07:40:47 pm
content: Funny how MS has cheap region locked copies of Windows that are specially crafted on the activation servers to only work if activated in the region. Funny that.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 22, 2013, 08:07:00 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on March 22, 2013, 07:40:47 pmYes, it is funny that companies love to gain from globalization, but hate it when the consumer tries to profit from it, too.

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 22, 2013, 11:18:07 pm
content: It's a despicable act. I hope the enquiry or ACCC can finally do something about these scum sucking leeches :-)They deserve all the bad publicity they get.

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2013, 10:43:14 am
content: surely this deserves a dave rant please please

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 23, 2013, 10:51:59 am
content: its a tad well timed against the consumer if you look at it long term, by the time the inquiries are finished, the government will be in caretaker mode so unable to act, and when either side gets back in, there will be weeks of policy squabbling before it climbs back up the ranks to get addressed again

author: gregariz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2013, 03:42:01 am
content: The reality is that people will simply use the brown paper bag versions of all this software.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2013, 03:45:34 am
content: sorry but is that some term for downloaded copy? as its not a term i have heard used in that way in Australia... with all the anti-plastic spin brown paper bags tend to refer to a positive rather than a negative here

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2013, 04:26:06 am
content: I take "brown paper bag" in this context to mean dodgy stuff, under the counter, etc. Like wads of cash in a brown paper bag offered as a bribe.

author: gregariz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2013, 04:29:05 am
content: Quote from: David_AVD on March 24, 2013, 04:26:06 amI must be showing my age.. before Ziplock lunch bags and plastic shopping bags with advertising... the world had truckloads of brown paper bags.... same reason crooks would carry a gun or a stack of cash in them is that they were largely invisible.