i.e. you can get a very awesome phone (from 3 years ago standars) for $100usd

Apple i hate with a passion because its not developer friendly

aslo the bigger issue is everyone that was going to get a smartphone has one

Nb4 xorgy comes in

so they have to convince people to upgrade

1000$

the *good* thing is hopefully what happens is a price war comes in because features arne't worth the upgrade

For a phone

yeah and thats actually a good price all things considered

You can get a very usable computer at that level

for the amount of r&d that goes into it and the power of the size

miniturization always costs money so you can't compare to computer

that being said the prices are inflated

but that might see a downtrend if apple starts losing sales

and samsung

I can when we are talking 1000$ for a phone with lack of features

if innovation (which it can't) doesn't keep up

I wouldnt' call them a lack of features

Apple is very anti-consumer. They go out of their way to make it very very hard to fix your own apple device, and if you do they try and use social pressure to shame you for it.

just a lack of new features

China is doing really well in the phone market as they have lower costs and time for R&D, due to the fact the factories are close to the designers

Samsung has no limitation

**Tokyo 🈺🈂㊙#5483** just left the server.

If

too my galaxy s9 to ubreakifix, a samsung athorized repairer

and they did an excellent job

They dont resort to apple level schemes

AND samsung rep happened to be there to oversee the fix

it was an expensiveish fix ($250) for a fucking volume down button broken (bent in)

Apple also hates 3rd party repair operations with a passion

Lol yes

Yeah 250 is retarded

had to replace because it was sending the phone into safemode

but it included a new bezel, screen and battery

so I see where the cost is

basically everything but cpu/memory

Well add that in lol

then it doens't seem bad

250 dolars for plastic

Dollars

yeah but I broke a volume buttin (it hid a flat piece of metal bending it in)