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jp42 | 1 year ago

I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows. Many of my friend also experienced as well. Its just theory so don't know if others had similar experience.

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dullcrisp|1 year ago

Doesn’t sound crazy. Plug a vector that includes the user agent into a model used to determine price sensitivity and that’s what you’ll get.

gamblor956|1 year ago

It's still true. Recently looked at hotels and airline tickets on my droid while a friend checked the same with their iPhone and the prices they saw were 15-20% higher for the same rooms/seats/etc.

This was also true after we logged into loyalty accounts (the discounted loyalty price on iPhone was still higher than the general public price on Android).

gspencley|1 year ago

> I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows.

I currently work remotely for a company based in California and they issue MacBooks by default to employees. We can request Windows devices but our IT department prefers to have as many people on Macs as possible for admin efficiency reasons.

We hire remote workers from all around the world and so this Mac-first policy has raised quite a bit of discussion about what the majority of our workforce is accustomed to and has been trained on. It has come up time and time again that Macs are really popular in California but outside of that state Windows still dominates by a large margin.

Now, not all parts of California are affluent of course. And like every state the demographics are all over the place in terms of income. I bring this anecdote up because I wonder if both the Bay Area discrimination discussed in the article and your hypothesis about Macs stems from California stereotypes. Outside of the state, even though wildly inaccurate and unfair for a great many Californians, a lot of people tend to think of California as if everyone in the state is extremely privileged.

nemomarx|1 year ago

the Mac thing is more direct - see iOS apps being more profitable. there's an association because they aren't budget devices generally.

Terr_|1 year ago

Trying to distinguish between what I consider good and bad discriminatory pricing, I think a useful litmus-test is whether it is being done secretly or has secret criteria.