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No one suggests that open and developers-friendly phones should be expensive.
by pbasista 7mo ago
No one suggests that open and developers-friendly phones should be expensive.
- tokioyoyo 7mo agoA good chunk of cheap hardware is subsidized by ads and data sales.
- neya 7mo agoI agree, but they always will be expensive because they are a niche. Same reasoning as phones that focus on one niche (like photo/videographers) always end up being super expensive (eg. Xperia from Sony).
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- qmarchi 7mo agoDisclaimer: Niche Xperia User. Not necessarily, the Xperia line of devices is varied, with nice set of tiers: 1 - Flagship $$$$ 5 - Smaller Flagship $$$ 10 - Mainline $$ Ace - $ Sony's problem is that they have garbage marketing teams that don't understand that 99% of people don't look at a spec sheet, they ask the employee at the shop for the best phone, which is gunna be the one that gets the employee the most commission. In Japan, they already have that with Docomo, AU, and Softbank. But they've failed to materialize that strategy outside of here.
- kube-system 7mo agoRight, it's the economics of mass production that does that.