The prices can only be as high as people are willing to pay. Given that Apple has competition for every product they make, this is not a monopoly. Like somebody else mentioned here, there is room for Apple stores and Beat Buy and all the rest of the cell phone stores.

They are very good at moving THEIR stuff. Also it works great if you are the owner.

They keep “reviewing” the agreement, i.e. lowering the price they pay you, until you have no choice but to shut down your local operations and manufacture somewhere else, usually China. That is after you lower you profit margin, and laid off a big part of your staff in order to meet their new target price.

Do you pay more for a pair of shoes if you buy them from, let’s say the Nike or Adidas store vs. buying them at a department store or shoe store?

We used to sell our product at Walmart, and their business practices are much, much worst than the retailers you just mentioned. Besides Walmart is way bigger than these companies.

No worries.

Well, exactly. That is what I said.  Running Rich = Incomplete combustion due to too much fuel / not enough air.

Wait. Dumping more fuel requires more oxygen, othereise all you get is an incomplete combuation. More power requires the correct fuel/air mix.

Done!!

Yesterday I was reading in Bloomberg news that, while the drop is not significant, the overall trend is down. Have we kept the rate of sales from before the recession, this year we should’ve selling about 20 million cars, and not 17.1 as expected. The analysts say that big part of the problem is the cost of cars. They…

but...but...”GM is building the best cars in the market”, or so I hear.

While none of the products sold here in the US are appealing, they appear to bo doing OK in the rest of the World. That goes to tell you that there is more to the World than the US of A.

The day I get an add in my car, based on my location, shopping habits or any of that BS. Is the last day I buy a new car.

This is pure comedy.

Really? you should tell that to the those social-democrat countries in Scandinavia.

Nissan did it way before. My friend had a 1992 Nissan Sentra “Limited”. The inly limited on that car was the limited equipment it had

Dude, what is your damn problem? Can you understand that many people think that the interior of the Bolt is cheap for a $40k car?

I do own an EV.

In 1982, the Mexican president declared that the country was in crisis. All the luxury cars made that year 1982 came with manual windows. By 1983 we were back to the excesses of power windows. Not sure about power locks. Hardly any car had leather at that time, so I do not remember if that was banned or not. I do…

But once everybody starts driving SUV’s, the height advantage goes away.