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Are the Samsung Galaxy S, S II, Nexus, Note devices more of a Walmart product, or more of a Nordstrom product?
by jerrya 15y ago
Are the Samsung Galaxy S, S II, Nexus, Note devices more of a Walmart product, or more of a Nordstrom product?
- kenjackson 15y agohttp://www.walmart.letstalk.com/product/product.htm?prId=39809 http://www.walmart.letstalk.com/product/product.htm?prId=398... Cell phones don't really have the same kind of super high margin distinction as exists in high-end retail. Another reason why the Nordstrom example doesn't work. Nordstrom has jewelry with crazy markup so they can make up in a single purchase for the cost of a lot of service. That doesn't exist with Android smartphones. When there are $2000 Android smartphones (after subsidizing) we can talk the "Nordstrom" brand.
- jerrya 15y agoMy point wasn't whether you can purchase these phones there, although that you can, certainly does weaken my point. My point is that Walmart is positioned as "Always low prices". The Galaxy line is not positioned that way. The Galaxy line seems to directly take on the iPhone as its competition, not the low end feature phones. Galaxy II S: $529, Galaxy Note: $600, Galaxy Nexus: $685. I think that's closer to your putative $2,000 phone than a $29 feature phone, especially priced in comparison to that iPhone. These are clearly high end phones segmented to a market that values that. (Regardless, there is always this $50,000 Android phone: http://techspy.com/news/538379/the-50-000-android-phone http://techspy.com/news/538379/the-50-000-android-phone)
- kenjackson 15y agoWell I think one thing we can both agree on -- if you pay $50,000 for an Android phone you should get two years of guaranteed updates. :-)