For years there have been countless discussions about the discrepancies between European and American prices for the company's applications or products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, and they became even more intense after the presentation iPhone 5S si iPhone 5C. Extremely many people stated that iPhone 5C it is an expensive terminal, and with a simple comparison between the American and European price of the device, we see how big the difference is and how much we pay for the products, even if there should be some equality between Europeans and Americans.
Below you will see the price comparison, but you must take into account the fact that a 9% tax is added to the prices for the sold decoded terminals, which is applied in most American states. Apart from the prices in dollars and euros, the third price is in RON and represents a dollar - RON conversion.
- iPhone 5C 16 GB – $598 – €599 – 2014 RON;
- iPhone 5C 32 GB – $707 – €699 – 2381 RON;
- iPhone 5S 16GB – $707 – 699€ – 2381 RON;
- iPhone 5S 32GB – $816 – 799€ – 2748 RON;
- iPhone 5S 64GB – $925 – 899€ – 3115 RON.
Yesterday I told you that the first terminals iPhone 5C si iPhone 5S have started to be listed by an online store, and the price difference between the USA and Romania is 1000 RON in the case of the iPhone 5C and 1100 RON in the case iPhone 5S. Of course you can't buy a round trip ticket to the US to buy the terminal, but the price difference is so big that Apple should be blamed for what it's doing, because you can easily see that the Americans make an almost equal parity for the euro and dollar, the prices in Europe being much higher than those in the USA.
Apple invoked the high taxes in the EU for these prices, I say that somewhere the company is trying to milk the Europeans of money to keep the prices low in the USA and other countries around the world, and this practice cannot be sustained indefinitely.
