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   @usuario@instancia.org (usuario@instancia.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 22:16:36 JST @usuario@instancia.org

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   • Casey Liss
   • Steve Troughton-Smith

   @stroughtonsmith @caseyliss thanks for considering that ☺️

   in Brazil a known fact/joke among Apple users is that you should never but anything directly from Apple, they apply a hedge for exchange rate fluctuations and the prices are incredibly absurd

   the cheapest Macbook Air costs 2600 USD at apple.com/br, but you can find it at large department stores for 1800 USD, or if you’re adventurous and want to buy from some random person returning from the US, around 1600 USD - all still ridiculously high prices

   also: https://instancia.org/@usuario/115502923505756249

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     Casey Liss (caseyliss@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 22:16:37 JST Casey Liss

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     • Steve Troughton-Smith

     @stroughtonsmith I definitely heard some [respectful] kvetching about this for Callsheet. I set new pricing after I heard this a few times.

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 22:16:37 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     • Casey Liss

     @caseyliss Brazil really suffers from it with Apple products; the Pro Display XDR was the same price as the average annual salary. By keeping Apple's set pricing tiers, you're really aiming for the very top of the consumer market in the country

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 22:16:38 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

     I do wish App Store Connect had a checkbox somewhere to automatically scale pricing by purchasing power region to region. You can do this, manually, by remembering to set individual prices per region every time, but that's a nightmare. You hear about this from Brazilian customers all the time, especially, where App Store price tiers are perhaps 2X or more what they should be