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When I heard about this story earlier, it sounded as if Orbitz was pushing car rental in montreal canada different rates for the same hotel rooms keyed to your OS in the knowledge that Apple users on average earn more than PC users do. Not so. All they re doing is tweaking the order of search results. If you re a Mac user, you see ritzier hotels first. You can always re-order the results by searching by price.
Orbitz found Mac users on average spend $20 to $30 more a night on hotels than their PC counterparts, a significant margin given the site s average nightly car rental in montreal canada hotel booking is around $100, chief scientist Wai Gen Yee said. Mac users are 40% more likely to book a four- or five-star hotel than PC users, Mr. Yee said, and when Mac and PC users book the same hotel, Mac users tend to stay in more expensive rooms
Neil Sazant, president of Sagamore, reacted with a mix of admiration and concern to the algorithm. That s incredible, but I wouldn t want to miss out on PC users, he said. Mr. Sazant car rental in montreal canada says about 15% of rooms at the 93-room hotel are booked through a mix of online sites like Orbitz car rental in montreal canada and that appearing on the first page of results is important in those searches
Apple users already car rental in montreal canada stand out as big spenders. Nearly half of retailers in a recent study by Forrester Research and Shop.org said users of tablets—a large majority of which are iPads—tend to place bigger online orders than users of laptops or desktops. Shoppers on Apple devices like iPhones also outspend shoppers using Android or BlackBerry devices, accounting for half of all mobile purchases, according to International Business Machines, which tracks data from retailers.
Apple users make roughly car rental in montreal canada $25,000 more on average than PC users. Jonathan Last wonders: Would there be anything illegal car rental in montreal canada about using elastic pricing car rental in montreal canada keyed to what make of computer a customer car rental in montreal canada has? (That s not what Orbitz is doing here, to be clear, but what if they were?) Any lawyers car rental in montreal canada out there know? My hunch is no, but of course if lots of people started getting charged different prices online simply because of the particular on-ramp they re using to access the information superhighway, the outcry would presumably force legislatures to spring into action. In fact, I assume this problem is to some extent self-correcting. Apple obviously has a profound commercial interest in its users not getting locked out of competitive prices car rental in montreal canada online. car rental in montreal canada If elastic pricing by OS became widespread, they d either notify their users of which sites were doing it or actually build something into Safari to deter users from accessing those sites. (Needless to say, they d also lobby the hell out of Congress to act.) That said, though, car rental in montreal canada I wonder how long the income disparity between Apple and PC users will last. As mobile technology becomes more ubiquitous, the number of middle-class car rental in montreal canada consumers snapping up iPhones car rental in montreal canada and iPads will bring Apple s income average down. At some point, the disparity will be small enough not to warrant elastic pricing. I wonder how long we are from that.
Update: Actually, am I wrong about Apple going hard after websites that engage in elastic pricing? They re not exactly a luxury brand now but they re certainly a prestige brand. car rental in montreal canada Maybe elastic pricing would nudge them towards embracing their status symbol potential and marketing to the rich. Apple consumers: Paying 20 percent more online and proud of it!
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It could be they need that computer to run a certain piece of hardware that won t work with any system newer that XP. They use that computer for using that printer (Alps MD1000), and a little web surfing.
Choice is a good thing, and I don t care to argue over the relative merits of either system. Just keep your snooty condescension out of my face. A lot of Apple users could take a lesson from Rush. He uses Apple products and can expound on why he chooses them, but I ve never heard him belittle PC users for not adopting his choices (it s not in his nature and he is smart enough to not piss off a large percentage of his loyal listeners).
Works great with Opera and there are add-ons for FireFox, and even MSIE. Mostly used for those websites that try to tailor car rental in montreal canada their responses and shift the formatting of things telling them you are running Win2K on a Pentium II using MSIE 6.0 can really do wonders. Or that you are simply a web-bot ignoring the robots.txt to cut down on clutter.
users of tablets—a large majority of which are iPads—tend to place bigger online orders than users of laptops or desktops. Shoppers on Apple devices like iPhones also outspend shoppers using Android or BlackBerry devices .
So if I use my HP laptop, I get the room waaaaay down the hall, the farthest from the elevator. If I use my Mac, I get a more convenient room that costs more. Hmmmmmmmm. I ve had the room the farthest from the elevator (Thanks, Travelocity.) I think I ll try for one better.
That s kinda the way taxes work, so why not retail? (Don t let the liberals read this. Oh, never mind, they probably are already planning to do this when Obama starts his second term. I know, but the recent political news has me dismayed, disgusted, and dismal.)
i have macs from the 90 s that still run like the day they were miraculously car rental in montreal canada conceived or made of gold dust by the thought power of yogis or sent directly down from heaven or made by slave children in china like every other piece of electronic gadgetry. 10 Macs, i say, around the house and each one still useable save one. one Road Apple out of 10 ain t bad and i hear if i put that g5 s logic board in the oven it will be resurrected through reflowing the solder. magical.
and i shop around and squeeze the money until any presidents and eagles on them scream -I consider Apple the better built computer with probably one of the best operating system out there-OSX ( still not sold on the Lions yet though.). being quality conscience is related to being money wise not money foolish. but i can do without the culty stores and their elaborate fanboy coven meetings.
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