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At some stage smartphones will become as cheap and ubiquitous as Nokia feature phones were before the iphone took hold. Sure they will have some secondhand/stol
by Theodores 12y ago
At some stage smartphones will become as cheap and ubiquitous as Nokia feature phones were before the iphone took hold. Sure they will have some secondhand/stolen goods value - $10 - but buyers might be hard to find as, by then, it might cost $30 to buy a new one. When this point happens (and it will), it will be hard to sell $$$ mega-bucks phones as new or into the second hand/stolen market.
People used to burgle houses for VCR's once, and for DVD players. Nowadays a DVD player is a giveaway item, nobody gets them stolen anymore.
- NickNam 12y agoI think the data that is stored on phones will still make them a target. A better reference would be stolen laptops... I wonder how much they get stolen nowadays. (The TSA seems to have tons of them left a check points, so who knows what that means. http://www.americanownews.com/story/22046003/12000-laptops-lost-in-airports-every-week http://www.americanownews.com/story/22046003/12000-laptops-l...)