I sell a phone for 1 billion dollars. That raises the average price to a million dollars. If you go to any store and grab 100 phones at random, their pricing will not reflect the average.
Or we could just acknowledge that artificially-inflated pricing isn’t actually indicative of anything other than corporate greed and people’s stupidity.
That’s why the market share of premium phones increasing is especially relevant, as I said at the bottom. For instance, 45% of Apple’s sales are in this sector and Apple is the most popular phome brand in the US. Even their “budget” lineup starts at $430.
None of the premium phones will face a price increase because of this regulation, this much should be obvious. And since cutting edge technology quickly becomes cheaper, after two or three generations budget phones will also have replacable batteries while being waterproof while remaining as affordable as today.
Something that isn’t mentioned either, the cost of simply replacing batteries is much, much lower than purchasing an entirely new phone, for both you and the environment.
That’s not relevant. People blindly paying more for status symbols does not mean phones are more expensive. It means more people are willing to spend $1500 on a status symbol. That those people comprise ~60% of the market isn’t indicative of prices trending upwards, it’s indicative of stupidity trending upwards.
The average is meaningless here.
I sell a phone for 1 billion dollars. That raises the average price to a million dollars. If you go to any store and grab 100 phones at random, their pricing will not reflect the average.
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Or we could just acknowledge that artificially-inflated pricing isn’t actually indicative of anything other than corporate greed and people’s stupidity.
That’s why the market share of premium phones increasing is especially relevant, as I said at the bottom. For instance, 45% of Apple’s sales are in this sector and Apple is the most popular phome brand in the US. Even their “budget” lineup starts at $430.
None of the premium phones will face a price increase because of this regulation, this much should be obvious. And since cutting edge technology quickly becomes cheaper, after two or three generations budget phones will also have replacable batteries while being waterproof while remaining as affordable as today.
Something that isn’t mentioned either, the cost of simply replacing batteries is much, much lower than purchasing an entirely new phone, for both you and the environment.
That’s not relevant. People blindly paying more for status symbols does not mean phones are more expensive. It means more people are willing to spend $1500 on a status symbol. That those people comprise ~60% of the market isn’t indicative of prices trending upwards, it’s indicative of stupidity trending upwards.