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> I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/p

> I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance. They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that. > Yet people buy them in bulk. The brand is that strong. Apparently people also rush to replace their old models every year or two. I have encountered three major species of iPhone owner: 1) Breaks a screen every couple of years, just replaces the phone when it happens. 2) Upgrades every year or two but leverages iPhones having a much better used market than Android to recover half or more of the original price via resale or trade-in, so they only pay full price for the first phone. (some of these now simply lease their phones, for convenience) 3) Holds on to each phone 4+ years, since the phones receive updates for so long. Pays full price every time, but goes a long time between upgrades.

johnchristopher 5y ago
> > I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance. > They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that. More like 489€. I don't know what's apple most sold devices for this year though. I have an old not-budget phone (z5c) from 6 years ago that is still going strong. Stuck on android 7.1, bought used for 250€ 4 years ago. I am still living in a world where a 200/250 phone should be okay, things might have changed. But we were talking about the whole offer, not the least expensive phone.
- rjzzleep 5y ago
  Might wanna take a look at the following. I had an z3c that had a better supported android version from xda than a more recent xz2c because of their camera DRM and kernel bugs. Sony dev community has mostly dried up ... https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android-development.4576/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android...
  - johnchristopher 5y ago
    Yeah but no. I did that at one time but it's a huge time sink and I didn't retain useful knowledge or skills.
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johnchristopher 5y ago

> > I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance. > They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that. More like 489€. I don't know what's apple most sold devices for this year though. I have an old not-budget phone (z5c) from 6 years ago that is still going strong. Stuck on android 7.1, bought used for 250€ 4 years ago. I am still living in a world where a 200/250 phone should be okay, things might have changed. But we were talking about the whole offer, not the least expensive phone.

rjzzleep 5y ago
Might wanna take a look at the following. I had an z3c that had a better supported android version from xda than a more recent xz2c because of their camera DRM and kernel bugs. Sony dev community has mostly dried up ... https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android-development.4576/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android...
- johnchristopher 5y ago
  Yeah but no. I did that at one time but it's a huge time sink and I didn't retain useful knowledge or skills.

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