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Then why did the price drop 4x and sales grew 3x with the iPhone 3g? Seriously, if price wasn't a problem and Ballmer was wrong, why did Apple even drop the pr
by throwaway0889 7y ago
Then why did the price drop 4x and sales grew 3x with the iPhone 3g?
Seriously, if price wasn't a problem and Ballmer was wrong, why did Apple even drop the price?
Truth is this wasn't that long ago, I still remember it, and the price drop was a huge deal to a lot of people.
Articles like these were everywhere.
https://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090622.html https://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_090622.html
- vezycash 7y agoThanks for the link. Many people feel that things we take for granted today were obvious successes in the past. Almost none of them ever hit the ground running. Electricity, the internet, eCommerce, iPhone, even Bitcoin weren't obvious hits in the least. If the success of bitcoin was guaranteed or obvious, In 2009, I'd have bought 111,111 bitcoins for $100 at $0.0009 per bitcoin. Now, I'd be a billionaire.
- deanCommie 7y agoRight, so it went from a very popular phone to THE MOST POPULAR PHONE. It was aleeady a success. Then it became a world beater.
- solidasparagus 7y ago> "no one would buy such an expensive phone" Lower prices definitely had benefits, but 3/4 of a billion dollars in revenue clearly shows that many people would buy such an expensive phone.