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Uh... https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-q4-earnings-report-2022-11675123832?mod=hp_lista_pos1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-q4-earnings-report-2022..

• acdha 4y ago
  The point is that this is a cliched lazy trolling point by Android users. iPhones cost more than the cheapest tier of Android devices but once you’re out of that tier the prices are pretty similar, and relatively few people are buying the top-end devices of either variety. It’s also incomplete because iPhones are much faster and historically have been supported years longer: if you had $200 for a phone, buying an iPhone two generations back will likely get you the same number of years of use. There’s something like a 4 year gap between Apple’s CPU performance and everyone else when it comes to single-threaded performance, and that’s what people notice the most since it affects things like browser speed and people buying cheap phones probably aren’t playing demanding games which are aggressively multicore.
  • Sakos 4y ago
    The OP only said that it's probably due to $1500 phones. Nothing about iOS vs Android. The comment under that made that argument. Samsung phones are also at that wild pricing and Samsung is also seeing a drop in sales. They're all in the same boat.
    • acdha 4y ago
      Yeah, I get that but it’s just not an especially insightful point: that’s double what the average buyer pays and, more importantly, someone who buys literally the most expensive configuration possible will spend considerably more than that on service over the life of the device.