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Aren’t the new iPhones approximately the same price as the premium android phones? Edit: Note to self, don’t ask questions here. I had thought the top of the l
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Aren’t the new iPhones approximately the same price as the premium android phones?
Edit: Note to self, don’t ask questions here. I had thought the top of the line Samsungs were close. Good points below about cost per supported year.
- osrec 8y agoNot really, there is a fairly significant drop when you compare top end Android phones to top end iPhones.
- bsder 8y agoThe Pixel 3 and S9 are about $300 cheaper. That's a big chunk.
- foobiekr 8y agoHow long will they be supported? What is the cost per supported year?
- scarface74 8y agoThis. If history is any guide and seeing the iPhone 5s is going into its 5th year of being supported. Someone with an this years phone should be getting updates until 2023.
- bsder 8y agoDon't know about Samsung, but Google has been quite good about supporting their phones over longer time periods and has been making specific changes to Android because they can't count on the carriers to do the upgrades. The Nexus 6 is a 2014 phone and is upgradeable to Nougat/7.1.1--which was basically top end until just this year. The original Pixel is a 2013 phone and actually has Android 9 support.
- matteblack13 8y agoThe original Pixel isn't a 2013 phone. It's a 2016 phone. That's a pretty big difference from 2013.
- paulcole 8y agoTry selling them both 3 years from now. You’ll get that chunk back.
- Jtsummers 8y agoUnlocked Pixel 3: $799-899 (64GB-128GB) Unlocked Pixel 3XL: $899-999 (64GB-128GB) Unlocked iPhone Xs: $999-1349 (64GB-512GB) Unlocked iPhone Xs Max: $1099-1449 (64GB-512GB) I don't know if Google's Pixel phones are really premium, but by the price I'm assuming so. It seems Apple is adding about $200 over Google's price for the similar size and storage points.
- alttab 8y agoDepth sensor? Other meaningful specs? Plthe difference between $800 and $1000 is abstract when you're financing or renting month to month
- Jtsummers 8y agoNo doubt there are more spec differences between the two. I don't know Android hardware well enough to find a proper Android-to-Apples comparison, so I went with a current flagship from Google and the two specs that (I suspect) most users care about: size and storage.
- jama211 8y agoYes, and when you sell them in 2 years time the iPhone will be worth $300 more than the Pixel.
- puranjay 8y agoIn my market, the Google Pixel 2 XL is literally half the price of the iPhone X
- sien 8y agoAs others have said the difference is a few hundred dollars. The other thing is that the premimum phones offer less than they used to over medium priced phones and that is where Android phones are much cheaper. Apple devices hold their value better, but still the price differences between very good mid-range phones and iPhones are pretty big.
- kccqzy 8y agoiPhone XS: $999 iPhone XS Max: $1,099 Pixel 3: $799 Pixel 3 XL: $899 So the new iPhones are now more expensive than the new premium Android phones. Historically, yes it seems like iPhones cost as much as the best-of-the-breed Android phones.
- Alex3917 8y agoA big part of the issue is that there is no iPhone XS with 128gb storage, and no iPhone XR with 4x4 MIMO. If those were the real prices then that would be one thing, but they're purposely making their base models all but unusable.
- kalleboo 8y agoWhen they still sold 16 GB phones sure, but 64 GB is perfectly fine for most users, especially if you use music and photo services in the cloud. As for 4x4 MIMO, I saw benchmarks on a real-world network, and the differences were pretty much negligible (under 10%) The base models are nowhere near "unusable", they're actually better than they have ever been for Apple.