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What exactly is this "genuine tech" that should plummet pricing? Switching to 3nm chips, titanium casing, and more complicated camera setups all seem like they
by Kirby64 3y ago
What exactly is this "genuine tech" that should plummet pricing? Switching to 3nm chips, titanium casing, and more complicated camera setups all seem like they would cost more money, not less.
You can argue the degree, but it sure seems like it's costing Apple more money to make them. The BoM cost estimates by teardown companies continue to climb on iPhones year over year.
- hooverd 3y agoWhat do people need so much phone for? I remember getting an iPhone 3GS, and the upgrades from that were big leaps, but the difference between my OnePlus and current Pixel weren't.
- Kirby64 3y agoThat's a different argument though, no? That's for the consumer to decide. And the consumer is free to purchase an older generation phone (at a much lower price, mind you) if the performance specs of those are just fine. iPhones tend to have an extremely long lifespan for their hardware, so running an old iPhone SE or something is perfectly acceptable. I was asking the GP specifically what they thought they were getting actual scaling in cost from. It seems to me that the actual expensive stuff in their phones is getting more expensive every generation, which would lead to a need to raise prices. Again, the degree is questionable, but I don't think anyone here is under the impression a titanium case is the same cost to manufacture as a stainless steel one.
- P_I_Staker 3y agoEven since the iPhone 6, and I would argue, all the way back to the S4 Examples picked, because that's what I used.