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Really? The iPod touch is $199. Cell radios really aren't that expensive.
by mrkurt 17y ago
Really? The iPod touch is $199. Cell radios really aren't that expensive.
- eli 17y agoYet the iPhone costs more than twice that. And the ADP1 (an unlocked G1) has relatively modest specs compared to this new phone and costs $400 from Google. I don't think that's because Google is trying to make a mint by sticking it to developers. Virtually all new HTC smartphones retail in the $400-600 range. I don't think HTC is making a fortune off them.
- jmonegro 17y agoBecause apple is pretty greedy, and the iPhone has a camera.
- ricardo 17y agoApple is setting a price that millions of people are willing to pay. I wouldn't call that greed.
- foldr 17y agoWhat would you call greed, then?
- CamperBob 17y agoSetting a price that's more than what your product is worth in the marketplace. You can always spot real 'greed' because it's always self-defeating in the end.
- jmonegro 17y agoJust because they're selling at market price, it doesn't mean that they're not greedy. If they were a bit less greedy, they'd rather have more users for a lower price, which in the long run can actually result in the same revenue. But then I'd get into the luxury brands theory/subject, but meh.
- dschobel 17y agoThe best estimates still only put production costs of an iPhone 3GS @ $178.96 1 The rumor isn't so crazy if you remember that google's most general mission is to get people online and using the web and looking at their ads. You can guarantee that they know roughly how much ad revenue the average smart-phone using individual brings to them and therefore they could justify bringing a phone to market at cost or even below. 1 http://gigaom.com/2009/12/09/who-is-getting-rich-off-the-iphone/ http://gigaom.com/2009/12/09/who-is-getting-rich-off-the-iph...
- eli 17y agoBest estimate, yes. But it's also the only public estimate.
- sketerpot 17y agoRemember when Google announced that they were starting a free email service with a ridiculously large 1 gigabyte disk quota for everybody? They announced it on April 1, and everybody assumed it was a particularly implausible joke. How we laughed! And then it turned out to be real. Keep your skepticism shields up, of course, but this sounds like it could happen.
- nimrody 17y agoFor a decent phone you need to add: radio subsystem, bluetooth, camera. Along with these you get problems of heat dissipation, short battery life, long certification process with carriers around the world and god knows what.