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I know this is primarily about contract vs non, but my god it is expensive.. particularly the memory upgrades £170 for 64GB chips over 16GB.. almost 6 (six!) ti
by polshaw 14y ago
I know this is primarily about contract vs non, but my god it is expensive.. particularly the memory upgrades £170 for 64GB chips over 16GB.. almost 6 (six!) times what a 64GB SSD or SD-card would cost. And that is at launch. Could anyone else get away with this?
- xenophanes 14y agoThe issue for GBs is value to the consumer, not cost of components. It's Apple's form of price discrimination. Everyone else does get away with price discrimination in one form or another. Apple uses a simple and straightforward type which I think is a positive thing, even though it ends up connecting significant price changes to small component changes. Also if you look at the % more you pay over 2 years for more GBs, it isn't that bad since the contract price is way higher than the phone or GB upgrade prices. (Even looking at the unsubsidized phone prices, the increased cost for more GBs is a lower %. Subsidizing each phone model for the same approx $450 in the US makes the GB upgrade price differences seem larger).
- mikeash 14y agoAt least part of this is Apple's foreigner tax. 170GBP is roughly $275 US, but the equivalent upgrade in the US is only $200. Well, "only".