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If you're on a contract, then you paid alot more then 150 or 600 for the phone.
This is why I love Apple
- Thread starter miplank
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I've been with Verizon for 11 years...contracts don't mean shit. Every phone is expensive out of contract.
And you're right about Samsung having a lot of phones. My mom has one of the newer ones and it's a pos in comparison to my iPhone.
javaguru
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How much did you pay for your first iphone?
Apple's business model has always been about up front cost and exclusivity; It's the Coach bag of technology. I'm knot hating on their marketing model, it's brilliant for a niche, but technology is very cheap to produce after the first few production runs...swapping a chip and improving the camera only to sell something marginally better than your last production run...but at a dramatic increase in profitability per unit....priceless.
Only time will tell how Apple will do after the death of the Versace of technology... Steve Jobs made technology a fashion statement...
javaguru
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So you bought it from one of those Chinese clone providers...
Chinese clone?
I said I am with Verizon. I dropped my blackberry as soon as verizon started selling the iPhone.
javaguru
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OK, so you weren't an iphone fanboy and purchased one when it was first introduced (AT&T). Probably a good decision with RIM because they will probably be dead in a year.
Chinese companies are selling unlicensed Apple products for cheap...That's what happens when you outsource production to China.
calveless wonder
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OK, so you weren't an iphone fanboy and purchased one when it was first introduced (AT&T). Probably a good decision with RIM because they will probably be dead in a year.
Chinese companies are selling unlicensed Apple products for cheap...That's what happens when you outsource production to China.
yep. based on what my friends who live there and do business there have told me, the chinese are notorious for taking your idea and replicating it. that's why he said whenever you do business in China, NEVER give them all the information or access to replicate your product. they're not a strong entrepreneurial culture but they can take a business model and replicate it and mass produce it easily. you always have to have some sort of value so they "need you". especially due to the fact a chinese person HAS to own the business (i.e. you need a chinese partner). also i.e. that chinese person can say fuck you, and cut you out without consequence
javaguru
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Indeed, if you want to do business in China you are required to have a "partner" with which you are required to share trade secrets that are supposed to remain secret. There was a big how do you do with US Airline manufacturers moving production to China and having the avionics move to the military via "partners." Of course civilian avionics aren't directly capable of being militarized but they would certainly shorten the R&D time while being directly applicable to air refueling to increase the projection power of the Chinese military.
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