Aaaaaand another misses the point, as expected. Again, let me say it for the nth time, Apple apologists ruin it for everyone else. You have nobody but Samsung to thank for your bigger screens, upcoming flexible AMOLED screens, and the AMOLED display in the Apple watch. Apple on their own won't do squat to give the consumer better value. There are simply way too many loyalist that keep buying whatever they spew. Its like whatever apple offers in storage size or screen size, it's just what the loyalist wanted. As if saying a base storage size of 32 GB was something completely unreasonable on a flagship device. How can anyone accept 16 GB base for the price Apple is asking. It has nothing to do with what YOU want/need personally. It has everything to do with value and reasonable expectations from a flagship phone at a flagship price. As for being able to negotiate a price for milk? That wasn't the point. The point was, do you as a consumer complain about prices of other products? I'm sure you do. But when it comes to Apple, the loyalist have absolutely no complaints for what they get at Apples prices. If you're a consumer that doesn't think Apple is some untouchable mythical being, it's a reasonable thing to say, Apple is overpriced for the hardware you get. The apologists just can't bring themselves to make a single criticism, no matter how reasonable, of Apple. Such an illogical position.
So which is it? Is it the base phone you're complaining about, or the flagship-- because it sure sounds like you're conflating the two...
I think you're mischaracterizing my point pretty severely here. I still carry an iPhone 5. Not a 5s, an original 5 purchased almost 4 years ago. Nothing since then has enticed me to purchase again. I don't care for the larger screen of the 6 series, and Apple hasn't made a 128GB phone in the form factor I care about.
I influence Apple in the way that works-- my purchase pattern-- not by spamming unaffiliated websites with endless drivel about how their phone is 7% too expensive. I don't fool myself into thinking that my opinion is going to have an outsized effect on society. I'm one person, issuing one tiny little price signal in a market of millions. Are you hoping that by trying to turn every conversation on these forums into a cry session about a phone you don't want that you're going to lead a global revolt against the hegemon? That would be a remarkable feat of self delusion...
What I purchase has everything to do with what I want and need personally. The same should go for you-- that's how the free market is intended to work. The difference here is that I know that what I want and need doesn't define the market, you seem to be under a different impression. Further, I'm dissatisfied that Apple doesn't make something I want but assume the demand just isn't there while you appear dissatisfied that Apple makes something you don't want and deny all evidence that the demand exists. It's that second point of view that I simply can't get my head around. I don't want a 16GB iPhone, but I have no problem with the fact that one exists. You seem to think that since you don't want it, nobody else should either and if they do it's because they're fools.
I have no issue with people wishing the phones were less expensive-- the points I specifically take issue with are the silly things people wrap their arguments in to make them sound like more than a child wanting another chocolate. "It's all a scam to make us buy higher end phones but then we buy the low end anyway because we're not going to fall for the trick but it was actually a double trick and now people are unhappy with their decisions." "Competition is good in a free market, but making money is bad." "The market is about more than your personal wants and needs, so you shouldn't want or need the thing that I wish Apple didn't sell."
The issue I took with your earlier post was the weird claim that Apple is charging too much and somehow those of us that don't have a problem with the product mix take personal pride in Apple's profits. That's wrong. Apple is so far the best in the business at finding the right price for the right products, and their profit is merely supporting evidence for that statement. That doesn't mean your Samsung isn't the right answer for you, it just means you're not representative of the global market just as the lack of a 128GB SE means I'm not representative of the global market.
Maybe that will change, and Apple's star will fall and you can pretend that you saw it coming all along just like that broken clock on my wall always knew that at some point it would happen to be 3:27.
