05 May 2020

Australians ripped off on smartphone technology

Australians as in the tax paying population of the colony, are being ripped off with regards to the technology available to them compared to other 'markets' around the world.

There are many factors to take into consideration as to why manufacturers do not offer their full spectrum of products to the colonial 'consumers', which are not discussed in this post.

Smartphone manufacturers have been for quite some time appealing to the 'warm and fuzzy' nostalgic feeling of the phones of yesteryear, packaging them up with modern tech and charging the price of a kidney in some countries.

As an example Apple have raided their spare parts bin (literally) and came up with a 'new' phone called the iPhone SE (2020), with literally the same dimensions as its 3year old iPhone 8.

Just because they made it doesn't mean you should buy it, which holds true with the 'new' iPhone SE (2020), but that's another topic in itself.

Motorola jumped on the nostalgia bandwagon, with the release of the Razr, where Australia's popular retail store JB Hi-Fi sells it for $2,699 as seen on their website current at the time of this post:



Over the colonial seas in other 'markets' Motorola offers the same phone for a two for one price deal, for an outlay of $1500.





Taking into consideration that the above price is in currency from the (alleged) 'land of the free', where one (colonial) Australian dollar purchases 0.64 of a freeman's(?) dollar then the equivalent  2,335 and a bit Kangaroo dollars buys you two Moto Razrs over the seas.

Without going into the 'economics', exchange rates, policies etc, Aussies are getting ripped off with regards to many products that are imported from overseas, where the government reaps in a significant amount in tax dollars.

Once a slave in the colony, always a slave.


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