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With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

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Re: With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

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Post by vrotaru »

ksec wrote: post #248

If we take a look from a Global Perspective, US has the cheapest iPhone ( All prices excluding sales Tax ), and everywhere else had it more expensive. i.e The $1K Prices may be making a big waves in US, but elsewhere in the world they have been paying that much for an iPhone already. And in terms of iPhones / Population / Apple Store, the US has it most. While in Japan 60% of the Smartphone are iPhone ( i.e Higher th…

Everywhere else had it more expensive, but everywhere else IPhone are... well not niche, but definitely way less pervasive

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #375
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #234

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"A few seconds of waiting is not "truly inconvenient"? I suppose you're either a zen master, or not doing much with the phone (possibly because it's "a tad slow")." No, he just isn't possessed by the ridiculous "must go faster, must go faster" mindset that plagues most people today. A website takes more than a second to load? ARGH it must be down, now my day is ruined! Just relax, if a small delay is enough to make y…

> A website takes more than a second to load? ARGH it must be down, now my day is ruined! Delays when fetching data on-line are understandable. Delays for simple off-line stuff are not. Especially unexpected delays - as in, the stuff used to work fast (in the past, or on my previous phone), but now it lags. Hell, I had a crap smartphone that liked to hang for 30+ seconds when trying to answer a phone call . > No, he…

You've made a bad choice in selecting which phone to buy, then.

My Moto X Play is still as fast as ever, the only app I ever experience any slowdown in is Google Maps, and it's always been like that.

Everything else is latency from logging in, fetching resources and so on.

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Post by yladiz »

Friedduck wrote: post #371

The $1k price might be easier to stomach if iPhone managed content as well as it used to. I've stopped using the apple ecosystem for photo + music management, and now find it isn't managing contacts well across devices any longer. For all the truly amazing capabilities the basics are lacking.

I'm not sure about music, but what's wrong with the default Photos or Contacts apps? Contacts works fine for me, and Photos works very well considering I have nearly 9000 photos. Syncing over iCloud is also fine, between my phone and my laptop.

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Post by throw2016 »

There has to be some technology to justify the price or we revert to the old Nokia model of adding some RAM, upping the megapixels and releasing a new model and we know how that ended for Nokia. Brand can only take you so far. Nobody thought a company as entrenched as Nokia could suddenly disappear, and they did.

The bigger issue is at the moment its just taking productive income from the economy that could drive real economic activity and job growth and dumping it in Apple's already inflated bank balance which they don't know what to do with.

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Post by alistairSH »

dhimes wrote: post #361
skookumchuck wrote: post #253

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Common pricing strategy is to have 3 price points: 1. a cheap stripper model used to bring people into the showroom 2. an expensive deluxe model with every bell and whistle. It's primary purpose is to frame the next one as being affordable: 3. the mid-price mid-range one you're expected to buy. Of course, the price-is-no-object people will buy (2) anyway, and that's just extra gravy. You'll see this technique used ac…

My understanding was the USD $1K mark was for the cheapest. If they were introducing a luxury version I wouldn't be so upset.

I thought the rumor-mill had Apple introducing two phones tomorrow - the 7 replacement AND the expensive phone. The naming conjecture has muddled the discussion a but, I think.

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Post by falsedan »

ghaff wrote: post #331
falsedan wrote: post #311

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> so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day? I sure do, because I prefer the quality control and availability of municipally-supplied mains rather than sinking a well in my back yard. Your point about conspicuous consumption is pretty unfocused. Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarian tendencies?

Bad example. People usually drill wells because there isn't a municipal source available. Municipal water is not a luxury good that you pay a premium for. Indeed, wells are likely to end up higher cost because of drilling, failures, etc. Better example is drinking bottled water rather than tap water. Which many people do but is IMO a total waste of money. To say nothing of environmentally wasteful.

> Bad example

I work with the material I get given.

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Post by wil421 »

mtgx wrote: post #343
wil421 wrote: post #340

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Why are you bringing up healthcare on an iPhone discussion? Trying to figure out how it is relevant to the pricing of an iPhone in Sweden.

You don't think someone's ability to buy an iPhone or any other product at a certain price depends on how much money they earn/they are left with at the end of the month?

If money is that tight then a brand new $1000 iPhone might not be a wise choice.

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Post by problems »

sanxiyn wrote: post #85
yodsanklai wrote: post #72

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> Not excusing the price, but people these days spend multiple hours a day on their phones That's my reasoning when I buy a new computer. I can buy a MBP for $2000, use it for 3 years and sell it used for $1000. $30 a month is a bargain considering I use it between 5-10 hours a day. I may pay a mac a little more (20%?) than the competition but it's worth it considering it's subjectively better (and objectively differ…

iPhone provides software update much longer (typically two times longer) than any Android phones in the market, so it actually has longer life. If you plan to use it for a long time, it makes sense. I agree if you plan to use iPhone for less than 2 years it's probably expensive.

Not necessarily true - if you have the know how or know someone who does, you can run a custom rom on your Android device, Lineage is updated weekly for many devices and will easily provide many more years of life. Once it's set up it's pretty hands off too, so just knowing one person who can do it for you once is pretty much enough.

The official situation is slated to improve now with Android 8 separating the HAL and the rest of the OS more clearly it likely means that in a generation or two this won't even be a concern.

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Post by kalleboo »

eknkc wrote: post #123
DigitalJack wrote: post #48

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My wife has one of the new ones with the "particular" keyboard. I think it's okay (the keyboard), but it's pretty noisy.

The "particular" keyboard is actually quite good to use. I like the way I type on this one. However it's not reliable. A single speck of dust under the keycap then you have misfires. Keys get mushy for no reason, get stuck etc. My b key does not work reliably now for example.

Yeah I really like the feel of it, but my "n" key has stopped working twice already (within a month of purchase!) - I've "massaged" it back to life both times with firm pressing. That reminds me I need to order compressed air from Amazon. Can I bill that to Apple I wonder

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Post by FussyZeus »

> From the iPhone’s introduction a decade ago, Apple has always priced it as a premium product — a more refined and polished alternative to the legions of cheaper smartphones available in the market.

And not only is it priced that way, thats actually what it is which is why in all likelihood I'm buying one tomorrow.

Every Android I've ever used has felt like cheap shit in my hands, and works like crap after 10 months or so. My current iPhone is knocking on 3 years old and works as well as the day I took it out of the box.

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