Posts by Michael Scrip

Quote:Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the...

Quote:Originally Posted by jdnc123 I am just using a JP Morgan report on Samsung, but in it they have a comparison of historical and forcasted operating profits for Samsung and Apple in USD. Samsung 2012 = 26 billion 2013 = 39...

Quote:Originally Posted by hill60 So how come Apple makes more money than Samsung? Could it be because of the 65 million smartphones Samsung shipped only 6 million were Galaxy S 4's, the rest were cheap junk. But, but, but... unit...

Quote:Originally Posted by jdnc123 Samsung officials have announced they've sold 6 million GS4s already and expect to sell 10 million in May.  There you have it, Apple no longer has the best selling single unit smartphone....

Quote:Originally Posted by dasanman69 I'm on a old unlimited plan so for now it's full retail for me from now on. Hmmmm... that might be the way to go!

Quote:Originally Posted by dasanman69 Well as a VZW customer I can tell that my 2 smartphone plan now is more or less the same price as a 2 feature phone plan of a few years ago. Yeah... I'm a single user... so that's what I was...

Quote:Originally Posted by dasanman69 That's now. What was it 2 years ago? Back then Verizon voice plans started at $40 a month for a basic phone... and smartphones users had to pay an additional $30 a month for a data plan. Now...

Quote:Originally Posted by dasanman69 Their current feature phone plan probably isn't much less than a smartphone plan. In 2 years many young adults have a nice increase in income. Really? The cheapest basic Verizon phone plan is...

Quote:Originally Posted by dasanman69 We were all feature phone users once and graduated to smartphones. Obviously VZW has done it's homework and found that there's 6.1 million people that 2 years ago couldn't afford a smartphone...

This is all well and good... but the primary reason people are still using featurephones are because they don't want or need to pay extra for a data plan. It's great they're giving featurephone customers a discount on the iPhone 5.......