{"id":33830,"date":"2020-04-27T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=33830"},"modified":"2020-04-27T18:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T01:07:56","slug":"newsletter-issue-990-are-cheaper-apple-gadgets-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2020\/04\/newsletter-issue-990-are-cheaper-apple-gadgets-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #990: Are Cheaper Apple Gadgets Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Apple gear has been regarded as expensive, sometimes in the luxury class. Thus owners of such products were regarded as well-off, elites, or people who just didn\u2019t understand the value of a dollar; well, make that whatever currency you use in your country.<\/p>\n<p>I know that when I first brought a Mac into my home, in 1989, I did price shop, not that there were many dealers who managed the full product line. In the end, I chose the shop from which my employer bought their Apple gear after having been assured I\u2019d pay the same price they did.<\/p>\n<p>Now it was a different world, and you couldn\u2019t buy cheap PCs for a few hundred dollars at the neighborhood supermarket. It was a serious purchase even though Apple\u2019s pricing lay at the high-end of the market. While Macs were offered fully assembled, you could \u2014 and still could \u2014 assemble a PC from the parts. Sometimes you\u2019d save a good deal of money, at the expense of having to assemble everything, configure device drivers and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2020\/04\/newsletter-issue-990\/#coming\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Apple gear has been regarded as expensive, sometimes in the luxury class. 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