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Is Android the only alternative in China? Can Google monetize the Chinese users at all? Must very frustrating to have 1/4 of the worlds population using your OS behind a firewall.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $300+ for a t-shirt when you can get really amazing t-shirts for $10.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
A lot of phone have roughly comparable specs, but the camera and overall software behavior is not comparable on lower-tier phones.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $300+ for a t-shirt when you can get really amazing t-shirts for $10.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
You could apply the same question to pretty much every consumer product on Earth. The answer is a critical function of marketing.
I can also have a firewall NoRoot Firewall), more granular privacy controls, I can root and and replace my hosts file, and some other nifty security/privacy things for paranoids like me.
Is it as polished as an iPhone? No Does it cover all my needs fully (and them some)? Yes Did I pay 1/6 of the price? Yes (trust me I can affort any smartphone) Do I think Apple is milking it and offers nothing new? HELL YES
I am happy that their stock is getting slapped, Apple put themselves in that position.
As for the Chinese economy, at some point many countries will reduce imports from China for a variety of reasons, and the slowing dowin is inevitable. Apple messed it up on many domains. Now they are paying for it.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
The tone of articles like this is always the same. As if it's a stupid mistake made on the fly. As if Tim Cook was heading out to dinner and someone yelled 'before you leave how much should we charge Tim???' and he shot back with the answer. Apple made a mistake and priced incorrectly but that was not after consideration, thought and strategy. A writer for Bloomberg or an analyst for Loup Ventures is in a different l…
I bought a new car in '10 because the manufacturer gutted the feature set on the '11 model, once they figured out that the '08 recession was real. I much preferred the original feature set, so I had to buy at a way inconvenient time, about 6 months early, before the dealers ran out of stock.
We groused in the 80's about Sony for selling us cheaper, outdated versions of consumer electronics that they sold domestically. You can't recoup R&D costs when the exchange rate is as lopsided as the Yen was at the time.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
And those $300 phones don't have a mind-blowing camera, but the latest gen flagships phones finally do. That, plus the fact that phones become obsolete much more slowly now, makes those $1k phones a worthwhile investment to me.
The tone of articles like this is always the same. As if it's a stupid mistake made on the fly. As if Tim Cook was heading out to dinner and someone yelled 'before you leave how much should we charge Tim???' and he shot back with the answer. Apple made a mistake and priced incorrectly but that was not after consideration, thought and strategy. A writer for Bloomberg or an analyst for Loup Ventures is in a different l…