Perhaps just as surprising is that Stockholm comes out as the cheapest of the European markets researched for Apple products. Their high rents and high wages seem to be more than offset by low import taxes combined with great wholesale prices due to massive demand. Just as on the list of electronic gadgets in general, Japan comes out as the cheapest, which seems at least a bit surprising. (Research was done in GBP and converted to USD in March, 2012)
The Macbook Air costs about the same price as the other two items combined in every market, but still most things are proportional so it’s not like there’s a city that has cheap iPhones and expensive Macbook Airs. With that in mind, it’s perhaps even a bit more surprising to discover that the exact same products cost almost double in the most expensive city compared to the cheapest.Įach of the three items was researched in late 2011 for the prevailing price in each city, and then the total of all three was combined.
Unlike the other brands, Apple is famous for tightly controlling its retail market, with prices being virtually identical within each country. In late 2011 they researched the 28 different cities below (in 27 different countries) to find the best price possible for 3 different popular Apple products. The article below uses 2011 prices for 28 countries)Īs with the other list, the data here is provided by Pricerunner, which is a UK-based comparison-shopping service. (The article linked above uses late 2012 prices for iPads in 35 countries. >NEW WITH MORE COMPLETE DATA: iPad prices in 35 countries from cheapest to most expensive We recently published a list of the cheapest countries to buy electronic items in general, but we separated Apple products into their own list because the Apple world doesn’t work the same as other brands. Below you’ll find the countries to buy cheap apple products, or at least as cheap as they are available, because Apple products aren’t exactly cheap anywhere in the world. In our never-ending quest to sort out the best-value destinations around the world, we are examining a topic that is certainly more of interest to long-term travelers as well as those who travel a lot with gadgets.
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