Comment on Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade

VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jwagner7813@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I told everyone that once contracts for cell phones were replaced with payment plans, companies would start gouging their customers with higher phone prices because the customers could now “afford” it.

  Greedy ain’t the right word imo.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know why people still use the big carriers. Subsiding the phones and getting an upgrade every 2 years was the reason to use them. Now they just add the cost of the phone to your bill.

    The brilliant thing is they’ve gone from “We’ll buy the phone, but there’s a $200 ETF” to “we won’t buy the phone, and there’s no ETF. But now if you cancel you owe us $1,000.”

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    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you think you’re not using “the big carriers” in the US I’ve got news for you: you are using the big carriers. They are all either owned or leasing bandwidth from the big carriers. It’s nothing more than an illusion of choice.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m using their towers, but paying 1/3rd the price. My point is why pay the premiumto use them directly if they took away the only advantage of doing so.

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• vodkasolution@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly what I was coming to write. Who could have thought that rising notably the prices would have led to less sales?

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• Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Phones is basically cheaper now. Features that only found on high end now on low end. SD 4 is insanely good (4g2 is an underclock 730). Very few reason to shell out 1000$+ for phones now

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• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can still buy a Moto G that is better than an old high-end phone in every way except support lifespan.

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