Posted on 10/16/2019 2:26:22 PM PDT by dennisw
Motos are very good fones. I really liked mine but it was 3G and outdated for the network. So had to give it up. Moto is Motorola that the Chicoms bought up. Moto also means made by Lenovo that bought up IBM personal computers/ laptops.
Uh, nope, those prices might be the inflated prices in the UK. Here the price range is from $449 to $1399. depending on what model and configuration you choose.
Can someone tell me why a telephone that is only good for a couple of years is worth $1,200.00 .
Can someone tell me why a telephone that is only good for a couple of years is worth $1,200.00 .
I meant keep up with the grandkids.
;-)
OMG those evil capitalists </sarcasm>.
Free Market. Don’t like the price, don’t buy it.
There’s a whole lot more than just parts and assembly labor. Design, R&D, marketing, insurances, brick & mortar overhead etc etc
They’re probably making $2-300 when it’s all said and done.
This is why the tariffs didn’t result in inflation. We just raised Apple’s taxes.
I doubt that anyone who buys an Apple Product gives a cr@p what it costs Apple to make the phone they buy, because it is the one they want. They don't want a $12.00 droid or they would but one, they don't.
The price you charge is the highest amount people are willing to pay for it, not what it cost to build....Capitalism 101.
Supply and demand. People won’t pay if they feel it costs too much and the price will drop. There are other phone options.
Generally, the general public tend to be ignorant about how businesses run.
So true. People complain about drug costs, saying the materials are cheap. My daughter worked a lot of years at Genentech, and told me about the millions of dollars spent on developing a single drug, doing trials, getting government approvals before they could sell it on the market - if it made it that far. Same thing happens for other products made and sold by tech companies, a lot of research dollars goes into developing a product. People are ignorant of the costs of R&D, let alone production costs on a finished product.
“Here the price range is from $449 to $1399”
—
Still a lot of money for a toy. But it’s not my money, so no problem.
Unfortunately for you, Minnesota_bound, those mythical nets aren’t built around any plant assembling Apple products. Even if there was an unusual spate of suicides in 2010—the suicide rate at FoxConn that year was a WHOPPING 0.75 per 100,000 compared to 11 per 100,000 among the same age cohorts at American Ivy League Universities—those very few suicides that did indeed occur among FoxConn’s employees that year, happened among workers assembling products for Microsoft, Nokia, HP, and Sony. Not a single person working on an Apple product at FoxConn during that time even attempted suicide.
Of course, you’ve been informed of these facts before, but don’t let facts get in the way of your spewing your lies. . . I hear Rep. Adam Schiff has an opening on his staff. You should apply.
Who ever told you it’s only good for a couple of years? Apple iPhones easily last five to six years before becoming obsolete and not updatable. Let’s assume five years. That’s five years divided into $1200 equals $240 per year. . . but most people don’t keep them that long by choice. They upgrade at either two or three years and either sell or trade in the old one. . . With Apple iPhones, a $1200 iPhone can bring $700 at two years, or $500 at three years, more if one sell it outright. However you look at it, the price people pay is about $240 to $250 per year, or ~$20 or so per month to have close to the latest tech.
A toy, huh? This "toy" increased my productivity by at 400% over the years I’ve had it. . . I’d say several hundred thousand of income. Some "toy." Without it I’d be fettered to an office. . . and not be able to respond to my clients as quickly as they need to keep them productive. Turning that response into THEIR productivity, that "toy" likely saved several millions of dollars in lost productivity in that same period due to that ability to respond quickly and get them back to operation.
You see, Louie, you make assumptions based on zero knowledge of how something can be used.
I’m surprised it’s that expensive to make.
OK, I get it. For me, it is only a telephone with a csmera.
For you it is a mobile computer.
Thank you
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.