XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-05-01 08:33, Andrew wrote:   
   > Chris wrote on Wed, 1 May 2024 07:36:54 -0000 (UTC) :   
   >   
   >> Apple is expensive because it doesn't target the low end, high volume but   
   >> targets demanding users who need robust, reliable hardware that works.   
   >> Hence why it's favoured by professionals in creative industries.   
   >   
   > Apple makes over 50% profit on each iPhone last I checked (admittedly long   
   > ago), whereas Android profits are far lower than that.   
      
   How did you "check" that, exactly?   
      
   >   
   > Why?   
   > Because Apple Marketing is one of the best on earth, perhaps even better   
   > than Big Tobacco and Big Soda marketing (which themselves are excellent).   
   >   
   > Apple has no qualms about telling "The Big Lie" (and, as proof, look at the   
   > plethora of expensive lawsuits Apple lost for spewing all those lies).   
      
   Apple hasn't lost any lawsuits of consequence.   
      
   >   
   > So the real reason Apple products are expensive is Apple Marketing has   
   > convinced the gullible uneducated technically inferior people that it's   
   > better (and those technically clueless people don't know any better).   
      
   Why do people KEEP using Apple's products, hmmm?   
      
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