XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , Algeria Horan   
    wrote:   
      
   > > apple's products are *very* competitive. they have to be.   
   > >   
   > > if their products had such a dismal price/performance as you claim,   
   > > their sales would not be anywhere near what they are.   
   >   
   > Heh heh ... you *completely* misconstrued my words.   
      
   nope.   
      
   > I never said that Apple phones lacked "performance", just as I never said   
   > the Pixel phones lack *performance*.   
   >   
   > What I said, very clearly, was that the price:performance ratio is dismally   
   > low.   
      
   and what i said is that's pure nonsense.   
      
   again, if that were true (for any product), it would not sell very well.   
      
   > Apple phones are fantastic if you can get them for free.   
   > They're even a great deal if you can get them for the price of sales tax.   
   > Same with the Pixel phones.   
      
   nearly everything is fantastic if you can get it for free.   
      
   here in the real world, very little is truly free, with most stuff that   
   is supposedly 'free' actually not free at all.   
      
   > They're all high-end phones.   
      
   that's the whole *point*. not everyone wants bottom barrel junk.   
      
   lots of people want high end phones, just as they want high end   
   computers, high end televisions, luxury cars, nice clothes and first   
   class airline tickets. they dine in fancy restaurants when they could   
   buy the very same ingredients at the supermarket for a fraction of the   
   price.   
      
   > However, the price:performance ratio is dismal.   
      
   nope, but even if it was, it isn't important.   
      
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