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I doubt it. As another poster pointed out, phone companies are still offering payment plans on new phones, so to an approximation all they're really offering is
by bunderbunder 11y ago
I doubt it. As another poster pointed out, phone companies are still offering payment plans on new phones, so to an approximation all they're really offering is a bit more price transparency on the same old pricing model.
Also, let's be blunt: Users of Apple products aren't exactly the most price-sensitive consumers in the market. If anything, it'll just make them less likely to buy new phones like clockwork every two years. But if so then probably all smartphone manufacturers will experience something similar.
- mkozlows 11y agoApple's $650 flagship will probably continue to do fine. But the $450 phones really got a lot of mileage from being "free." If you were buying a phone in 2012 from a normal contract carrier, there really wasn't any way to pay less than $450, because $450 was $0. With real pricing, a $350 phone is $100 less, and anyone who was considering buying a two-year-old phone to save $200 is probably very interested in saving another $100.
- bunderbunder 11y agoDid they? I have seen maybe 2 or 3 5c's in the wild ever, so I just assumed they had tanked on the market. While it's certainly not a random sample, I commute by public transit so I do spend a lot of time watching a lot of people fiddle with their smartphones.