• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    People don’t buy them for the price they’ll buy bigger phones. That’s it. That’s the whole story.

    They have to make the phone cost $300 less to sell in meaningful numbers. Why do that when they could just not make them at all and sell fewer models at higher prices?

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      exactly, profit margin. people aren’t upgrading every year like they used to, so they have to make up (some of) that lost profit by increasing prices.