linder, I do not know what the details of the B&O pricing strategy is but they do have a rationale. Typically such strategies are not made public but often a breakdown of the various customer types is presented in some way to those who will be doing the endpoint marketing (salesmen, client representatives, and product specialists). Often pointers

Hi Alex, I am surpised that B&O has not given you and your collegues a background presentation on their demographic marketing approach. This is the origin of the pricing strategy. It is not clear how you could successfully market the products without this knowledge so shame on B&O. I would expect that they will want all associates to understand

Sony and Samsung have had a continuing agreement for many years: http://www.twice.com/article/CA330413.html including the recent 8th GEN: http://www.twice.com/article/CA6555350.html Most view this joint venture as Sony being a captive customer of Samsung who also provides capital in return for first dibbs on the latest developong technologies. Perhaps

Not certain what Jobs has to do with this discussion of B&O, nor the relevance of how much cash Apple has on hand. The current Apple business model in the audio/video arena is not comparable to B&O. They sell good design to the masses. I enjoy Apple products and have owned them since the Macintosh intro in 1984. In addition to numerous Powerbooks

I expect that Trip is correct; my experience is that the wealthy are not deterred by market swings for personal purchases and most such purchases are well thought out and researched. No incentive is needed, rather just the right product(s) and customer service. The customer service at a typical Apple store involves a high decibel interaction with a

I grew up with B&O (which was very unusual in the US) and have owned B&O personally for the past 30 years. The products have always been expensive relative to virtually anything else available at the time (with the exception of the ridiculous "off the deep end" audiophile, and now videophile, products). What you always have in B&O

RussR, I agree and that is one of the reasons that I have Apple TV and now Time Capsule. Leading a digital life requires that back-up(s) be present. It is somewhat analogous to insurance on a house, not something you would go without. The automaticity of Time Capsule is nice and may be a good solution for many who do not want to remember to regularly

Here in the US there is a small industry that services the HDD crash issue. These operations take your HDD and extract the HD and read it with a separate device and load a new HDD for about $200-300 (you supply the HDD). In my work where we produce about a Tb of data per day, we have crashes once in a while and get all the data back this way. Only once

I have the opposite problem..... my wife is not enamored with the latest design direction in B&O speakers; she calls them "orbs from outer space" and "they will not be going into our living room". Well, after significant persuasion, we ended up with BL9s (she calls them "nunns") instead of BL5s (she calls them "Major

Not sure what the pricing is there but in the US B&O recently reduced the price of the Beosound 3 from $700+ to $499.