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The saddest thing about this viewpoint, is that even Apple doesn't want to achieve it. You are living in a fantasy universe that even the company you idolise do
by zmmmmm 13y ago
The saddest thing about this viewpoint, is that even Apple doesn't want to achieve it. You are living in a fantasy universe that even the company you idolise doesn't see as desirable. Apple doesn't want to cater to the low end. If they were ever going to do it, they would have with the 5c. It's never going to happen.
And further, the large mainstream bulk of consumers are never going to want luxury, high end devices. So Apple is never going to reduce the other players to a "niche". The big question is largely around whether they try to occupy the top 50% of the market or the top 25% of the top 10%. But they've made it extremely clear that they have no interest in trying to hit the top 75%, let alone the top 100% of the market.
- laureny 13y ago> If they were ever going to do it, they would have with the 5c. It's never going to happen The 5C is $100 and it can already be found for $50 in various large stores. If this is not catering to the low end, I don't know what is.
- eisa01 13y agoThe US is not the world. In the world the 5c is as expensive as the top og the line Android phones. The 5c costs over 800 usd in Europe, if that's catering to the low end, I have a bridge to sell you ;)
- sneak 13y agoAmericans frequently forget that they are a 4% minority on Earth.
- code_duck 13y agoOn the other hand, perhaps not so extreme, Americans are generally unaware that they way they purchase cellphones, subsidized by the carrier and attached to a contract, is not the way people in the rest in the world do it.
- parasubvert 13y agoAnd yet 19% of the GDP (by PPP) on Earth.