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tl;dr it's hard to find lots of new people every quarter who can afford $600 phones.
by jonknee 11y ago
tl;dr it's hard to find lots of new people every quarter who can afford $600 phones.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoIt's sort of astonishing that they kept it up this long.
- jonknee 11y agoIt really is. They were able to squeeze more out of China than any other foreign company has (or at least American company).
- mschuster91 11y agoHeh, I'm going to get myself the new CAT S60 phone (650€ at the moment, hope it goes down to 550-600 in two months). I already have an (aged) B15Q... but holy cow, a FLIR camera in a phone?! Only downsides: 1) no MediaTek CPU any more, only Qualcomm shit => no more easy rooting, firmware reflashing etc. 2) no dual-SIM :'(
- mongol 11y agoVery interested in this one as well.
- pjmlp 11y agoSpecially outside US and other first level countries.
- matwood 11y agoOr it's just gadget saturation in general. My MBP from a few years ago works great. Some of the older iPads I have at work are just fine. The iPhone 6/6+ also works just great. At some point, the marginal utility of a new device just isn't there. It is what happens as markets mature.
- deegles 11y agoMy iPad v1 still works. Not great, but it's still around.
- skc 11y agoI think this is what it is. Smartphones in general have reached a point where we are barely wowed anymore. I got myself a cheap xiaomi phone as a stop gap after my high end phone died. A year later, I'm still using it and have no energy to even bother looking at what else is out there.
- orionblastar 11y agoApple used to offer through mobile companies a discount or monthly fee to make iPhones more affordable. I think that stopped. My son got a iPhone 6 for $25 extra a month. Without that we could not afford it.