{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just purchased The Humble eBook Bundle. 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). It seems not only with regards to Orbitz showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,281,1446,4,5],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-book","tag-drm","tag-drmfree","tag-linux","tag-macosx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}