Apple have been known for making quality products, the design, the execution of the body is just to die for but when you hear the news that the new iPhone 5 will only cost $167 to make. And apple are selling it for about 300% more. It's just really really bad.
Sure there's two sides of the spectrum when talking about this. If apple make a affordable iPhone then everybody will have them and i know that roughly everyone has one and by making it affordable, it wouldn't become a luxurious device to have. The other side is apple have got to make up for the cost of all the research they did, the amount of prototypes they produced to get to a final form factor that they thought was suitable, Plus all the man hours that got put into the production of the iPhone 5 to make it what it is today. So that's two sides of the story. People will buy the iPhone 5 regardless of the price, they'll just buy it because they want to have a new iPhone even though it might not be a worthy upgrade people will always go for the latest device in order to keep up with the market.
If i was going to build a phone, like the iPhone 5, the price point that i would like to go for is $300, so i'd still make $133. That's just the phone, i'm not including the earpods, the chargers and other accessories that come with the iPhone. When the kinect came out, it was £149 to buy and as it was released, it only cost £60 to make and i think they would have sold a lot more kinect if they hit the £99 price point. I was have definitley bought it, Not for the games or even use it with the Xbox. i can plug it into my computer and run some hacking software, and i can easily create 3D objects or just by rotating the kinect around the object and by running special software, you can immediatly have that object on 3DS max.
Packed with the iPhone 5 is the latest and greatest mobile operating system ever. Personally i don't think that but that's what apple are saying. Android is way better in terms of customisation, with iOS all you can do is change your homescreen wallpaper and that's as for it goes for customisation on iOS.
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Sure there's two sides of the spectrum when talking about this. If apple make a affordable iPhone then everybody will have them and i know that roughly everyone has one and by making it affordable, it wouldn't become a luxurious device to have. The other side is apple have got to make up for the cost of all the research they did, the amount of prototypes they produced to get to a final form factor that they thought was suitable, Plus all the man hours that got put into the production of the iPhone 5 to make it what it is today. So that's two sides of the story. People will buy the iPhone 5 regardless of the price, they'll just buy it because they want to have a new iPhone even though it might not be a worthy upgrade people will always go for the latest device in order to keep up with the market.
If i was going to build a phone, like the iPhone 5, the price point that i would like to go for is $300, so i'd still make $133. That's just the phone, i'm not including the earpods, the chargers and other accessories that come with the iPhone. When the kinect came out, it was £149 to buy and as it was released, it only cost £60 to make and i think they would have sold a lot more kinect if they hit the £99 price point. I was have definitley bought it, Not for the games or even use it with the Xbox. i can plug it into my computer and run some hacking software, and i can easily create 3D objects or just by rotating the kinect around the object and by running special software, you can immediatly have that object on 3DS max.
Packed with the iPhone 5 is the latest and greatest mobile operating system ever. Personally i don't think that but that's what apple are saying. Android is way better in terms of customisation, with iOS all you can do is change your homescreen wallpaper and that's as for it goes for customisation on iOS.
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