I’ll check google if you agree to be more specific.Oh gosh. Nice deflection when you're made to look silly! 😂 There's only one margin in existence, huh? Use Google to check. Or a dictionary.
I’ll check google if you agree to be more specific.Oh gosh. Nice deflection when you're made to look silly! 😂 There's only one margin in existence, huh? Use Google to check. Or a dictionary.
No idea what you're even trying to say. The cost of living crisis amongst some demographics has no relation whatsoever to the highest end version of a premium smartphone.
The average person can barely afford food and rent due to inflation, tech companies are firing workers despite record profits, Apple is holding back bonuses on it's employees.
But Tim the bean counter decides now is a good time to increase prices.
The problem with your statement is that iPhone 14 Pro sold incredibly well. Better than expected. So whether your claims are true or not, iPhone 14 Pro sold really well.
Apple bases its decision to raise prices on that, not on anecdotal comments about the current state of the economy, true or not.
I wouldn't spend too much energy on this chap, I don't think he reads with any intent to understand, he reads simply to reply. Luckily, there is an ignore functionality on here.Well some things of course and vice versa as America has European products too. Smartphones come from all over the world though and iPhones are a smaller segment in Europe.
I don’t live in the EU so that rather juvenile insult doesn’t apply in this instance.
Well I just got a 13 miniThat's correct. The prices may seem outrageous, but apparently they are not stopping people from buying. So as long as that remains true, the prices will keep going up. Apple doesn't need these margins. It wants them. And we're enabling it.
I completely understand everything that you've pointed out. Performance is always going to be improved year after year. Subtle or not. The improvements have to be substantial for me to be convinced to upgrade. I'm waiting on the 15 Pro and I know the changes are definitely going to be substantial. Just going to wait and see what comes out of this WWDC and in the Fall.Each year the new iPhone Pro has tens of thousands of Apple engineering hours spent improving it from the previous year. You of course may choose to trivialize the changes to four simplistic things for your own decision process, but you are wrong. Each new iPhone Pro is improved in scores of ways, probably hundreds.
Many of those myriad improvements may be subtle when viewed non-critically, especially in the context of comparison to the immediate past model. But the improvements are real and they do present in overall operation.
Note that I do not say everyone should buy each new phone, but I do say that the reason not to upgrade is not simplistically because it still does the same thing as the previous models. That same thing has actually changed in subtle (and sometimes unsubtle) ways. Most years since the v1 iPhone I have aggressively A-B compared old versus new in the field with friends' phones, and the newer phones always have presented noticeable performance improvements of one kind or another (speaker sound quality, mic competence, reception in strong locations, reception in weak locations, camera, durability, etc.).
All that said, personally I pretty much upgraded about every other year until the recent camera improvements have made each new model way cost effective for my business.
what are you talking about? my comment was obviously about apple. i’m clearly talking about the news story i’m commenting on which has nothing to do with android or samsung.Really? You can get a $0 android phone to check email, Facebook and make phone calls. You can also get a Samsung fold for a few thousand. Is that Samsung putting the squeeze on consumers because they can? Because people require a fold for their day to day existence?
I was wondering when you discuss greedy corporations is it only Apple that is "greedy" because their phones are expensive?what are you talking about? my comment was obviously about apple. i’m clearly talking about the news story i’m commenting on which has nothing to do with android or samsung.
not sure what you’re fishing for. they’re famously greedy but they’re not the only one.I was wondering when you discuss greedy corporations is it only Apple that is "greedy" because their phones are expensive?
The question was very straightforward. Is Samsung greedy because the Z fold 4 costs $1,800?not sure what you’re fishing for. they’re famously greedy but they’re not the only one.