So no matter what the features are on the new "flagship" phone, no matter what the cost to build it, it has to be priced somewhere in the neighborhood of last years?
Then all of the reviewers and bloggers are wrong... The XR is in a great spot. I'm a medical student and cannot justify the additional $350 for the XS, and as it turns out, I also can't find any justification for me to pay $350 more for the XS, regardless of my financial situation. And I am not alone in that. You get a hell of a lot for $800. Other than 3D Touch, which Haptic Touch offers some of the functionality and will further increase over time, my XR is better in essentially every way vs my 7 Plus, and yet my 7 Plus was $850 2 years ago. The XR is quite an upgrade from a performance and camera alone, not to mention the bigger display, wireless charging, and Face ID. For what you are getting on the XR, it is nothing short of a flagship device and is less expensive than flagship iPhones from 2016.
Also, Samsung Note 9 and S9 come with fast chargers in the box. Apple could also do this, but require users to buy fast charging as an extra at $69.
iPhone 6 Plus $749 16GB
That is like selling a car with the best steam engine on the market
I didn't say Apple didn't care about unit sales in an absolute sense. But it's clear with services revenue growing, absolute iphone unit sales will play less of a role in the revenue and profits.(imo)
The iphone Xs max is expensive, but not the most expensive phone out there. People's affordability varies, and I'm not clear the phone is marketed for "everybody". The line of affordability and value vs price is different for all of us. Some people won't buy a $500 phone. This isn't about who owns AAPL or not.
Lexus was marketed as Toyotas luxury brand and it was a clear offshoot to the main company. The iPhone X was not marketed as a luxury brand and was unveiled under the same umbrella as all the other devices. Comparing cars or even houses like has been put forward on this thread, to smartphones is a rather slippery slope. The smartphone market is much more contained in terms of its pricing, not to mention an iPhone is a throwaway product effectively and unlike investments or status symbol products.
That article doesn't say what you are inferring. In fact you don't know what the manufacturing costs are per phone for the various models. Maybe Foxconn makes from the manufacture of one iphone Xs max of what it makes from manufacturing 10 other phones.
So you are implying that Apple pays more for assembling their phones than anyone else. Brilliant. Is it because XR has cameras than other modern phones? Or Tim Cook is just a sucker?
That’s a stupid analogy. But ok.
Right. People try to draw phone analogies using cars. They never work because cars are completely different from phones.
Yes (despite some being debatable, oled consumption depends on white content and lcd view angles are a lot worse than oled screens) but oled has one clear advantage.
You’re right it’s bloody expensive and I hope they kill that price point with fire in future years. As far as this not being about AAPL, well I made that point do my post was about that. Whether anybody feels differently to me is totally irrelevant to me as I brought that up. I just think a consumer thinks very differently to somebody who also has a financial interest in the company they are willing to defend to the death. That was the crux of my point.
I can understand why people would be concerned about viewing angles with tvs. However I think it is a non issue with smartphones. Why would someone hold a phone in anything other than ideal? Phone approx perpendicular to line of sight.
