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Apple are greedy bastards



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Cool. Now all that's left is to sell the damn things



DivinePaladin said:
They're the best phones on the market with the most profit for the creators. Sadly they also sell near the bottom of the list so that cancels out.

My Xperia Z2 would like to have a word with you. I hate that phone!

It freezes all the time, loses touch capability so that you have to shut it off over a physical button combination, gets features patched out with Android updates.
My phone is of such great build quality that the back glass just broke during the night while charging (in it's first 10 days) and the lid that hides the sd card slot doesn't stay closed.

So no, Sony doesn't make the best phones. Samsung makes better phones, and for the record: I don't like Samsung.



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SamuelRSmith said:
They need to get themselves on the nexus hype train for an iteration or two. Those things are great for brand awareness.

There is no "nexus hype train", less than 1% of Android are Nexus-devices.



That's impressive considering Sony has also the best quality!



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think-man said:
Apple are greedy bastards

Have you read the article? All of the companies mentioned offer mid-range & low end phones, Samsung Per-handset profit is dragged down by their low-end and mid-range phones. Not to mention, Android manufacturers don't make the OS that comes installed in their devices, they get to install it for free,  along with all of Google services that make Android... Android. Almost zero investments on software development. 

Apple, on the other hand, sells the hardware and their software. In addition, their per-handset proft isn't dragged down by low-end phones, they don't make them.



Yeah it's impressive but it's not much good when you don't sell much.

But what this shows is the pure greed of apple and how much of a ip off their phones are. If people weren't such sheep and refused to buy apple at that price,, they'd be forced to reduce it by at least $100. And rightly so.

 

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OneKartVita said:
Yeah it's impressive but it's not much good when you don't sell much.

But what this shows is the pure greed of apple and how much of a ip off their phones are. If people weren't such sheep and refused to buy apple at that price,, they'd be forced to reduce it by at least $100. And rightly so.

Not sure why this sort of trolling is allowed. If I said, PS4/X1 gamers were sheep for paying for online when they could play for free on other gaming-platforms, I'd get banned. It seems to me that the quality of posts doesn't matter, as long as you are not offending the three console manufacturers and their fans. You are free to pay to play online with your friends, I will not call sheep for doing that, because you think it's worth your money. Good for you!

Not to mention, the point your making is flawed. For the already mentioned reasons, Apple doesn't make low-end hardware, keeping their profit-handset profit unaffected, and the fact that Apple is in buisness with higher operating margins; software. Other Android Manufacturers aren't.



Iyasu said:
DivinePaladin said:
They're the best phones on the market with the most profit for the creators. Sadly they also sell near the bottom of the list so that cancels out.

My Xperia Z2 would like to have a word with you. I hate that phone!

It freezes all the time, loses touch capability so that you have to shut it off over a physical button combination, gets features patched out with Android updates.
My phone is of such great build quality that the back glass just broke during the night while charging (in it's first 10 days) and the lid that hides the sd card slot doesn't stay closed.

So no, Sony doesn't make the best phones. Samsung makes better phones, and for the record: I don't like Samsung.

I have an Xperia Z1 and have yet to experience a single problem. For me, they make the best phones hands down.



kowenicki said:
And yet the mobile communications sector of Sony made a loss last FY and will likely make a loss this FY.... (please don't post individual discrete quarter results to try and prove me wrong - that isn't how it works)

Sony should ditch phones. As soon as they manage to get traction to make a reasonable profit from their low number of high end phones, possibly next year or the year after, China will come along in a few years and obliterate everyone's margins..

Talk of a closed ecosystem for playstation games or content on a playstation phone is backward. It is far more likely and sensible that PlayStation appears on other manufacturers devices over time. Far more likely. That's where the real money is.

most of these loses are coming from the past with reconsrution. Sony makes more profit than MS and Samsung with its Smartphones as you can see

 

Talk of a closed ecosystem for playstation games or content on a playstation phone is backward. It is far more likely and sensible that PlayStation appears on other manufacturers devices over time. Far more likely. That's where the real money is.

funny how the closed smartphone brand sells more phones and makes most of profits than all the other adroid manufacturs combined. And the story isnt  uch different with consoles over open Platforms like PC