On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The price of an unlocked iPhone 3GS is $900: > > How can nearly half that price for similar hardware be "way too > expensive"?! What magic wand can you wave to reduce the price of > materials and R&D costs to make these devices palatably priced in the > marketplace? (Obviously high price is the barrier which makes Apple so > successful and Nokia less so, in the US at least. Oh, no - hang on...) > > Cheers, > > Andrew Apple's hardware is no less expensive to produce, and probably more so because of the compactness (specifically referring to the iPhone). And Apple is NOT all that successful with anything besides the iPhone. If they hadn't come out with the iPod when they did, and subsequently the iPhone, they wouldn't still be with us. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
