Ryan Brooks wrote: >Adam Maas wrote: > > >>Most electronic goods are shipped by sea in containers. Pentax cameras >>fall into that category, as does most of Canons stuff. Only expensive, >>low volume sales items would be shipped by air (Like a Canon 1Ds or >>Hasselblad H2D, and the former likely gets sent by sea anyways, stuffed >>into a container with 40 tons of Rebel XT's). >> >> >> >My little sub-$200 ipod came via Fedex right from China- overnight. > >-Ryan > > > Not surprised, Apple's got huge margins and production capacity issues. They'd rather eat some profit on shipping than give up marketshare on the iPod. And you can get a large number of iPod's on even a standard air freight container for an airliner (Notice how small Apple's packaging is getting lately? Shipping costs are likely one reason for that)
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