It seems that Steve Jobs , Apple ’s Mariachi - in - headman , does n’t care much about Latin America other than to get his soy cheeseflower and tofu - stuff jalapeños . According to the argentinian newspaperman for Silicon News , « buying an iPod in Latin America is almost an odyssey . The price is much more expensive than in any other part of the world , is strong to find technical support and there ’s almost no accessories to be found anywhere » . The official prices are sure outrageous : a 2 GiB iPod nano costs $ 328 in Brazil and $ 323 in Argentina , compared to $ 149 here . thing get even bad after the jump .
This Leontyne Price differential , evaluated by Commonwealth Securities in their in style « iPod Index » , is triggered by a onus of taxes and import price that labour most of the purchases to US - based grey marketplace import television channel .
According to the report , there are almost no shop in the continente . For the whole of Argentina , she say , there ’s only one « Apple Center MacStation » ( which is the name Mac oriented shops have there ) locate in business district Buenos Aires . Venezuela , which is the numeral one iPod market place in Latin America , does n’t have any prescribed Apple representation in the country , and all product are sold through third party .
To lend insult to injury , the iTunes Latino Store actually does n’t work in South America . Only people subsist the USA can access it . All in all , a fairly deplorable picture of the state of all things Apple just across the border ; a United States Department of State that is reverberate by the belief of users and bloggers from these state , who experience that Apple just does n’t give a shucks about them .
¿ Por qué a Apple no le interesa America Latina ? ( in Spanish)[Silicon News víaGizmodo ES ]
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