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Apple CEO Tim Cook: We're Getting as Many iPhone X as Possible to Customers 'as Soon as Possible'
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It's not an American way of thinking with anyone I know! Maybe in California and NYC. I doubt anywhere else.
Don't know what Apple calc app math Cook is using but here the price of coffee ranges from about $5 at Starbucks to about half that at McDonald's. So, $33 coffee is very uncommon.
not really.. i spend about $16 a day at coffee shops..
$33/month at 'nice coffee places'?
not very American imo.. that's only two days worth.
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People who go to StarBucks and such each day, actually they're spending more than $33 a month and there are a lot of them
Just because some can't afford the price or don't want to pay the price, that doesn't mean the price (in and of itself) is insane.
Monthly totals. $5 x 20 times a month= $100. $2.50 x 15 times a month = $37.50 etc..
"It's important to put it in that context," Cook said. "We price for the value we're providing. We're not trying to charge the highest price we can get or anything, we're just trying to price it for what we're delivering."
I declare BS. Apple is a for profit corporation and thus will sell at the price that makes the most profit. Otherwise they are forsaking their responsibility to the share holders.
It’s called the law of supply and demand: as long as more people want it than can have it, Apple can keep raising the price. Don’t blame them for making a popular product.
Many people. A coffee drink at just about any coffee shop averages around $5. So you’re looking at around 6 coffee drinks per month. A lot of people grab more than 6 lattes from Starbucks every month.
It is pricey but just from my past reading of this forum. A lot of people buy the next model up or higher from base so they're already spending close to $1000.
The Note 8 is basically the same price as the X and people bought them like crazy. The S8+ wasn't that much cheaper.
I don't like this trend of phone prices going up. Tech items normally go down in price
But it’s NOT just a phone. It’s a pocket computer. I use my iPhone as much, maybe more, than my desktop. If it were just a phone, I’d agree, but it’s not. Not even close.
Tim Cook is getting more annoying by the day. This guy needs to stop talking so much. The more he talks, the more I'm happy to never buy anything from Apple again. He's either trying to be a political activist, or trying to badly imitate Steve Jobs, or just saying things that are stupid and frankly insulting. The iPhone X is expensive, and what he calls "value" to justify it is contrived BS. They are charging a lot for it because there has been such a long time since there was a new design and their customer base is starving for something new.
I meant more like paying stuff they cant afford on credit because everything is a bargain if marketed right.
Just look at those car commercials in the us „get a brand new audi at only 99 Dollar* a month! „ get your flu shot at your nearest CVS and save another 25 bucks on your next purchase! Sign up for xy and you receive a 500 Dollar amazon gift card now!
Insane to me lol however i have to say stuff like Adidas and Nike is SO CHEAP in the US
I’m unsure about your skepticism. I think he knows that a phone (edit: not just a phone, but an everything device) with close to two years advanced technology over the mass market’s offerings is expensive to design, build, and mass produce, let alone get it to the public a year early.
Apple went from final-draft design to shipped and available to market in a year from reports, and if I remember correctly, it’s been two years since Face ID was conceived on the drawing boards. That’s pretty incredible, and had to have been exhausting. The whole team looks like they’ve aged 3 years over just one year’s time.
The X is worth $1000. That’s why iPhones now start at $349. There’s one for everybody.
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