This is, of course, one of the most ridiculous oft-quoted statements on this forum.
Selling something is a fair exchange of a product for money. Overpriced would mean that they're charging more than someone would pay for the product. So the fact that Apple's sales are increasing at high double digit rates means that millions of consumers are happy to pay Apple's price - so they're not, by definition, overpriced.
Maybe you mean 'they're expensive' - which is a comparison between Apple's price and the competitor's price for similar products. But that's not true, either. The MacBook Air is easily competitive with other Ultrabooks (unless you look at the POS ones). The iPhone is right in line with other high-end phones. The iPad is about the same price (or lower) as equivalent tablets. The iMac and Mac Pro are comparable to equivalent machines. And the MacBook Pro is in line with other premium, quality laptops. So they're not expensive compared to the competition.
So I guess by 'overpriced', you mean "Mommy and Daddy won't increase my allowance enough to let me buy one.' That may be true. You simply need to get a job.
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Originally Posted by jfanning
One second you are abusing Samsung, next it is Android, which one do you have the issue with.
Google provides updates to their applications quite often, it is Samsungs problem in providing the updates to Android itself
I love the 'logic' of that. Who cares what updates Google provides when the user has no access to them. The overwhelming majority of Android users are still stuck on Android 2.2 or below because they don't have access to anything newer for their phones. So from the customer's perspective, the updates might as well not exist. It really doesn't matter if you want to blame Google or the handset manufacturer or the carrier.
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Originally Posted by agramonte
So much for no one making money with android
Just a matter of time before it takes over completely - The dumbing down of the apple community with all the iOS kids is all we going to end up with
Uh huh. Fortunately, the rest of the world doesn't accept your theory. In fact, if anyone's market share is in danger, it would be Google. There are a number of factors on the horizon that could affect them:
- Lawsuits could block the sale of their products (or several OEMs' products). Or licensing fees could get expensive enough to increase the price of the phones
- Fragmentation is already chasing developers away.
- Samsung is going to do their own advertising. This risks creating more fragmentation and confusion in the market.
- Google's acquisition of Motorola could chase OEMs away or cause them to fork Android as Amazon did - causing even more fragmentation.
- Samsung is getting into the advertising business which means that Google's advertising revenues will be further degraded (and they're not that great to start with). Even now, every iOS sale that gets converted to an Android sale costs Google money.
Now, I don't predict that Android is going away any time soon, but the chances of them taking over the rest of the market are nonexistent.
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
At the same time you'd have to consider that Samsung actually produces many of the components used in it's products (buying from itself), and uses some of their own standards IP rather than needing to license it. In those two particular areas Apple is at a disadvantage.
Thanks for your logical input. However, we both know the other camp will simply ignore this and move on to other arguments. Apple sucks/is doomed, remember?
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Originally Posted by Michael Scrip
Two different things:
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
Is Apple obligated to win everything? The company moves at a deliberate pace. They may just make good on becoming that trillion dollar company.
As for Samsung, good or bad, will be around for a long, long time.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
At the same time you'd have to consider that Samsung actually produces many of the components used in it's products (buying from itself), and uses some of their own standards IP rather than needing to license it. In those two particular areas Apple is at a disadvantage.
Uh huh. Fortunately, the rest of the world doesn't accept your theory. In fact, if anyone's market share is in danger, it would be Google.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
There is no contradiction. Think of it as a couple in an unhappy marriage but have to live with each other. At least until the divorce can be finalized.
You can hate your spouse because of irreconcilable differences and still love your children.
And no, I am not holding my breath for this farce to be over.
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Originally Posted by eric475
Apple is planning to shovel more money to Samsung than last year to buy their components.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
When you love your iPad emphatically and unequivocally but say you hate Samsung components without seeing the contradiction in those two visceral feelings, then you are _____ed.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
While it is true that Samsung has a lot of phone models out, realize that a lot of the are just rebadges of one model for different carriers. For example, each of the 4 major US carriers got the galaxy s under a different name. The differences were mostly cosmetic, with some minor changes in radio hardware for the different networks. They share a majority of internals, so I can't imagine R&D would be too much for those models.
I really wish manufacturers would step away from doing this, as it does get confusing at times, and really dilutes brand image.
Too bad it hasn't helped Google's bottom line (yes their focus is on ads).
Let the pissing contest continue. Sadly it won't help with android product quality.
>>Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
These are just facts. They cannot be denied.
Besides the fact that I distrust your assertion as far as growth goes (can you provide a current, valid link?), you seem to equate marketshare with platform growth and that is just plain wrong. A platform grows not with just number of sold units but also with number of developers willing to put in man hours producing software for said platform. iOS is miles ahead of Android on that front.
But have many components that they DO make themselves.
You cant really say that about Apple. Design =/= make.
And why would you want to? Samsung is Apple's bitch. Apple and others engineer the components and then Samsung assembles them. Your argument is akin to calling the MS Xbox a Foxconn Xbox because MS outsources the assembly of their products.
Bottom line: Neither Samsung nor Apple make OR design all the components in their systems.
1.7% for all vendors using Android OS compared to just the iPhone is MUCH faster to you? You and your ilk's arguments are fucking pathetic. At least try to form to a decent argument.
1.7% for all vendors using Android OS compared to just the iPhone is MUCH faster to you? You and your ilk's arguments are fucking pathetic. At least try to form to a decent argument.
I dislike seeing you resort to profanity to make a strong point (but then I'm anyone special). Your arguments are usually well written, supported by facts and make sense without using it.\
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I love Samsung!
Samsung margin: abount 10%.
Apple margin: about 50%.
Apple products are great, but OVERPRICED!!!
This is, of course, one of the most ridiculous oft-quoted statements on this forum.
Selling something is a fair exchange of a product for money. Overpriced would mean that they're charging more than someone would pay for the product. So the fact that Apple's sales are increasing at high double digit rates means that millions of consumers are happy to pay Apple's price - so they're not, by definition, overpriced.
Maybe you mean 'they're expensive' - which is a comparison between Apple's price and the competitor's price for similar products. But that's not true, either. The MacBook Air is easily competitive with other Ultrabooks (unless you look at the POS ones). The iPhone is right in line with other high-end phones. The iPad is about the same price (or lower) as equivalent tablets. The iMac and Mac Pro are comparable to equivalent machines. And the MacBook Pro is in line with other premium, quality laptops. So they're not expensive compared to the competition.
So I guess by 'overpriced', you mean "Mommy and Daddy won't increase my allowance enough to let me buy one.' That may be true. You simply need to get a job.
One second you are abusing Samsung, next it is Android, which one do you have the issue with.
Google provides updates to their applications quite often, it is Samsungs problem in providing the updates to Android itself
I love the 'logic' of that. Who cares what updates Google provides when the user has no access to them. The overwhelming majority of Android users are still stuck on Android 2.2 or below because they don't have access to anything newer for their phones. So from the customer's perspective, the updates might as well not exist. It really doesn't matter if you want to blame Google or the handset manufacturer or the carrier.
So much for no one making money with android
Just a matter of time before it takes over completely - The dumbing down of the apple community with all the iOS kids is all we going to end up with
Uh huh. Fortunately, the rest of the world doesn't accept your theory. In fact, if anyone's market share is in danger, it would be Google. There are a number of factors on the horizon that could affect them:
- Lawsuits could block the sale of their products (or several OEMs' products). Or licensing fees could get expensive enough to increase the price of the phones
- Fragmentation is already chasing developers away.
- Samsung is going to do their own advertising. This risks creating more fragmentation and confusion in the market.
- Google's acquisition of Motorola could chase OEMs away or cause them to fork Android as Amazon did - causing even more fragmentation.
- Samsung is getting into the advertising business which means that Google's advertising revenues will be further degraded (and they're not that great to start with). Even now, every iOS sale that gets converted to an Android sale costs Google money.
Now, I don't predict that Android is going away any time soon, but the chances of them taking over the rest of the market are nonexistent.
Two different things:
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
At the same time you'd have to consider that Samsung actually produces many of the components used in it's products (buying from itself), and uses some of their own standards IP rather than needing to license it. In those two particular areas Apple is at a disadvantage.
Thanks for your logical input. However, we both know the other camp will simply ignore this and move on to other arguments. Apple sucks/is doomed, remember?
Two different things:
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
As for Samsung, good or bad, will be around for a long, long time.
At the same time you'd have to consider that Samsung actually produces many of the components used in it's products (buying from itself), and uses some of their own standards IP rather than needing to license it. In those two particular areas Apple is at a disadvantage.
Apple is planning to shovel more money to Samsung than last year to buy their components.
All TRUE Samsung boycott members refuse to buy any Apple product that includes any Samsung components. We vote with our pocketbooks.
Uh huh. Fortunately, the rest of the world doesn't accept your theory. In fact, if anyone's market share is in danger, it would be Google.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
These are just facts. They cannot be denied.
You can hate your spouse because of irreconcilable differences and still love your children.
And no, I am not holding my breath for this farce to be over.
Apple is planning to shovel more money to Samsung than last year to buy their components.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
When you love your iPad emphatically and unequivocally but say you hate Samsung components without seeing the contradiction in those two visceral feelings, then you are _____ed.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
These are just facts. They cannot be denied.
Pulling ahead "MUCH" faster...
link please.
Two different things:
Overpriced refers to the consumer purchase price. Both Samsung and Apple make phones that retail in the $600 range... or cheaper if you get them subsidized. In short... I can walk into a store and purchase a Samsung phone or an Apple phone for the same price.
A company's margin refers to how efficient they are in the development and manufacturing process. Apple can buy 60 million parts at one time if they have to... and they usually at a discount. And by not diluting their product line by pumping money into a bunch of dead-end products... they save even more money.
There's a big difference between developing 6 new phones a year... and only one new phone a year.
Apple still sells phones that are over one and two years old. That work was paid off years ago.
In contrast... introducing a new model every 3 months really eats into your margins when you factor in all the R&D that has to be done for each model. And when a particular phone is only sold for 6 months or less... that's a huge money pit.
I don't know the specifics of how much it costs to take a phone from conception to retail... but for some of the non-popular phones... are they even worth their while?
For instance... I've never even heard of the Samsung Illusion until I just saw it on Verizon's website... have they sold enough of them to cover development?
I'm sure they have... but you get my point. The more products you have to develop, build and support... the lower your margins will end up.
While it is true that Samsung has a lot of phone models out, realize that a lot of the are just rebadges of one model for different carriers. For example, each of the 4 major US carriers got the galaxy s under a different name. The differences were mostly cosmetic, with some minor changes in radio hardware for the different networks. They share a majority of internals, so I can't imagine R&D would be too much for those models.
I really wish manufacturers would step away from doing this, as it does get confusing at times, and really dilutes brand image.
Let the pissing contest continue. Sadly it won't help with android product quality.
>>Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
These are just facts. They cannot be denied.<<
Components Apple paid for, not components they stole.
PS: Samsung phones are filled with components they don't make.
But have many components that they DO make themselves.
You cant really say that about Apple. Design =/= make.
But in the meantime, Android is killing iOS phones in volume, and the platform on phones is growing MUCH faster than iOS. More and more people choose Android over iOS, and the proportions are growing.
Android continues to pull ahead, much faster than iOS. In market share, Android is winning. Indeed, it is pulling ahead, more and more every calendar quarter.
These are just facts. They cannot be denied.
Besides the fact that I distrust your assertion as far as growth goes (can you provide a current, valid link?), you seem to equate marketshare with platform growth and that is just plain wrong. A platform grows not with just number of sold units but also with number of developers willing to put in man hours producing software for said platform. iOS is miles ahead of Android on that front.
Pulling ahead "MUCH" faster...
link please.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ne_market.html
But have many components that they DO make themselves.
You cant really say that about Apple. Design =/= make.
And why would you want to? Samsung is Apple's bitch. Apple and others engineer the components and then Samsung assembles them. Your argument is akin to calling the MS Xbox a Foxconn Xbox because MS outsources the assembly of their products.
Bottom line: Neither Samsung nor Apple make OR design all the components in their systems.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ne_market.html
1.7% for all vendors using Android OS compared to just the iPhone is MUCH faster to you? You and your ilk's arguments are fucking pathetic. At least try to form to a decent argument.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...ne_market.html
Apple gained 4.58% and Android gained 5.99%. (re: your link)
We're talking 1.41%!
Only in a delusional mind could that be considered "MUCH" faster.
As Solipsism pointed out... an army of many against an army of one... and that's the best they could do. Seriously sad and pathetic.
(Solipsism - SSquirrel calculated the actual percentages of growth in that thread)
1.7% for all vendors using Android OS compared to just the iPhone is MUCH faster to you? You and your ilk's arguments are fucking pathetic. At least try to form to a decent argument.
I dislike seeing you resort to profanity to make a strong point (but then I'm anyone special). Your arguments are usually well written, supported by facts and make sense without using it.\