Roissian,
Mixture, mon brave, with a PC, a laptop,and all the associated paraphenalia do I really need an expensive piece of apple kit? It may well be wonderful but a service pension only goes so far.
If you're going to write me a reply in such a tone, at least do your homework first.
Apple brought iTunes to Windows many moons ago. Therefore your argument is null and void because iPods, IPhones,iPads will all work on Windows. No need to buy one of
their computers.
Willing to be proven wrong, but I doubt you will.
Admitteldly, if you are adamant that all you will ever want to do is read books, then a Kindle is probably as good as anything.
gg,
why are videos zoned.
and
find people in India or China can buy the same product for half the amount.
I don't work in the industry, or have any great knowledge of it. But I would suspect the answer to your question lies in the underlying commercials (in the businsess sense of the word, not referring to advertisments). More specifically probably a lot to do with the cost of production and distribution. They also might have their hands tied by legal issues such as royalty and copyright terms varying by geographic region.
Given that most things are produced in China these days, it should probably come as no surprise that things are cheaper in Asia. Add to that the size of the markets means that they can afford to experiment with pricing models.
I'm afraid I'm not convinced about the old chestnut that zoning and DRM is out to screw the consumer. I can see how it might be possible to percieve it to be that way...... just as it might be difficult to see why a lawyer who charges 190 per hour might be any better than one who charges 50.