Apple to charge for activation of MacBook and MacBook Pro's wireless n chip capability

[Jesús Díaz Blanco]

> Apple is a US company and has to do its accounting according to US  
> laws and regulations. You WILL have to pay it.  And to be perfectly  
> accurate, Apple doesn't HAVE to charge for it, it's just an  
> accounting nightmare if they don't.

Actually, no. Apple Europe is a complete different entity to Apple  
US. The later only collect the money while Apple Europe BUYS  
everything from Apple US, like Japan o any other of the worldwide  
Apple. In fact, Apple Europe has the obligation to buy x number of  
total units of everything depending on Cupertino's projections. The  
only thing they do in Europe is promote, make a guess about how many  
products they are going sell (often without knowing what are the  
products at all, just having a general target market description and  
price point, but no actual product, just "TBA") in each country and  
then try to sell it. More often than never, countries in europe have  
to exchange product allocations because a product won't sell as well  
in germany as in spain. Sounds crazy, but that's it.

Anyway, is Apple Europe selling to consumers here, so the US  
accounting doesn't apply.

j.


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