I imagine the phone will start at $949 and you'll be able to push it over 1k but we'll find out next Tuesday
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Samsung's OLED Display Monopoly May Explain iPhone 8's Rumored $1,000 Price
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I imagine the phone will start at $949 and you'll be able to push it over 1k but we'll find out next Tuesday
Around where I predict it too. I'm predicting a $999 price, but that $50 difference betweenn us is really just up to Apple's whim at this point. either are believable.
Actually many Apple share are held by funds that are part of people's 401Ks and other retirement accounts. And yes, those people do need and deserve their retirement income.
Actually, Apple's long term strategy is mLED. This is a stepping stone.
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Yes, the current OLED was invented by DuPont back in the early 2000's. Samsung did not invent OLED, just built more efficient ways to produce them.
What does that have to do with producing the OLED display?
That has more to do with Apple controlling both hardware and software design and the integration of both. With Android, Samsung doesn't have that luxury.
... unfortunately, you may literally be right about that. Apple users will still pay for that miscalculation.
Then the iPhone is overpriced to them, and they have every right to vote that way and buy something else. By your own admission, the iPhone was a greater value to you than you gave up, and by definition you gained by buying it, and therefore it was not overpriced, even if you wish it was cheaper, or think their margins are too big for your liking.
Other manufacturers have a commodity OS, and they're not able to charge what Apple can. And you couldn't pay me to use them, because the software, and in many cases the hardware as well, are garbage. To me. For my uses. Apple certainly can sell a phone at whatever premium people, you and me included, are willing to pay, and if that park up comes out to $600 or whatever, that's what it is. And I can say that it's not overpriced, because the only reason I bought it was because it was worth more to me than the money I gave up to get it. We gained by getting it, that's why both of us bought it. It was underpriced. To us. For our uses.
Point is, it's not your place to assess whether something is overpriced or not, unless you're confining your analysis to your own use case, and your actions match your words. You can't tell me its overpriced for me, when I bought it, and don't regret it one bit.
I buy my phones outright, at full price. If it's more expensive in Europe, it's a result of their own regulatory burdens, and they deserve to pay more.
Sure, all else being equal, but investing billions into other suppliers just to make sure there's more than one, when the primary supplier is giving you a good ideal? I don't think so. Plus it's not like Samsung has one machine, or one plant making these things. There's a bunch, and they're all over, and the only difference you get when buying from another company is Management of supplies, and slightly different technologies/processes.
They don't have to lose it, but they can if they like.
Samsung outsells Apple in volume and has been primarily using AMOLED on most of their devices for a few years.
not sure what you're trying to say.
Not all of Samsung's phones are OLED though. How many OLED panel phones has Samsung shipped? Apple sells 50-80M iPhones per quarter. That's a crap ton of OLED and that's in addition to what Samsung needs itself.
Not sure on how many of their devices use OLED. and yes, Anytime Apple decides to buy in, there's going to be a big volume bump. curious to know if Samsung can handle it.
Right. There will be shortages and I was replying to the OP the reason why.
What happened to Apple's fighting spirit in the vein of Ed Cue's "very aggressive negotiation tactics" to demand a better price?
But the OLED iPhone will be a fraction of the phones that Apple sells a quarter the vast majority will be traditional.
That's how Apple wants it.
In the context of number of available OLEDs, it doesn't matter. OLEDs will be constrained because of how many iPhones Apple will sell.
Their allegedly constrained now because they’re relying solely on Samsung. So my original comment was in response to that report. But like I had commented, had they partenered years earlier with other OLED manufacturers then the issue could have been, perhaps not resolved but, mitigated.
To be clear, the partnership I would have expected from Apple would have been exactly what has been reported recently where LG has been tapped by Apple to build a OLED display factory. The shameful part is that this effort is too late and now availability is going to be even more so severely scarce.
You don't think Apple has thought of that? We don't know what kind of discussions they had with their partners. We don't know what kind of quality Apple requires. The truth is Samsung has the best OLEDs right now. If other vendors could provide the same quality, Apple would have diversified.