{"id":2557,"date":"2012-10-22T22:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T03:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T03:53:33","slug":"why-do-mac-linux-users-pay-more-for-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/10\/22\/why-do-mac-linux-users-pay-more-for-things","title":{"rendered":"Why do Mac &#038; Linux users pay more for things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humblebundle.com\/\">The Humble eBook Bundle<\/a>. I primarily use a Mac OSX based laptop (my MacBook Pro), and secondarily use Linux in various flavours (a Lenovo ThinkPad runs Ubuntu, various boxes run a combination of that and Fedora &amp; CentOS, and virtual machines are growing).<\/p>\n<p>It seems not only with regards to Orbitz showing better, <em>more expensive<\/em>,\u00a0hotels to Mac users, even when it comes to the Humble Bundle, Mac and Linux users <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com.au\/news\/why-mac-and-linux-users-will-pay-more-than-windows-users-for-the-same-thing-76937\/\">pay more<\/a>. Are we just conditioned to pay more than Microsoft Windows users?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to support DRM-free e-books &amp; great content. Who knows, I might discover something new.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Why%20do%20Mac%20%26%20Linux%20users%20pay%20more%20for%20things%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2012%2F10%2F22%2Fwhy-do-mac-linux-users-pay-more-for-things&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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