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How can they justify the extra $130 for a cellular chip and antenna?
by gtirloni 10y ago
How can they justify the extra $130 for a cellular chip and antenna?
- josteink 10y ago$100 is the standard "extra" you have to pay across the line from most vendors for having built in 3G/4G. Apple only charging $130 extra seems almost too cheap.
- slig 10y agoPrice segmentation.
- cmdrfred 10y agoThis is the company that charges $300 for a book about its products. The prices are rarely justified beyond "someone will pay it".
- zie 10y agoyou also get GPS, which works regardless of cell connectivity, handy for Maps :)
- Yhippa 10y agoDoes Apple Maps support offline map downloads? If so this is a great selling point.
- lorenzhs 10y agoI don't think so, but Google Maps does on both iOS and Android. Quite handy when abroad.
- 4ad 10y agoThere are way better apps than Google Maps for offline maps.
- lorenzhs 10y agoYes, for that I usually use maps.me which is based on OSM. But most people don't know about these or find it too cumbersome to have to download the maps upfront, etc. Google's offline routing is also a lot better and faster.
- 4ad 10y agoApple Maps?? The competition is so much better. For offline navigation in car: HERE WeGo (maps.me also works, but HERE WeGo is way better). For offline navigation on foot in cities: maps.me (also HERE WeGo works, but I think maps.me UI is better for this). For offline open street maps suitable for offroad: Pocket Earth (works particularly well in Europe). For offline maps in general suitable for offroad: Gaia GPS or the lower cost Topo Maps (works particularly well in USA). And if you are into serious off-trailing Gaia GPS (and probably Topo Maps too) allow you to use your own maps as well.
- zie 10y agoI meant mapping in general, not specifically Apple Maps. Apple Maps, will cache a little bit, like if you are connected, get directions and start a route, then lose connection, it will still work, but if you get turned around(off course), then it may or may not work, depending on if it's cached locally(in my experience it usually won't). Maps.me is my goto offline map solution, it uses Open Street Maps.
- tooFastFuckYou 10y agoThat's only because Apple rips you off by OMITTING GPS in the non-cellular version.
- hamandcheese 10y agoIf it was less than $130 then how would they justify $130 on their other devices (with nearly the same hardware)?
- Someone1234 10y agoAnd patents. People always forget the patent fees you have to pay for cellular service. Now granted it is still a huge profit margin, and if it was just a standard feature they could likely do it for under $20 across the line, but there's likely more money in acting like it is a premium thing.