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Comment on Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing
eddanja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well then maybe don’t charge me 3 months’ rent for one?
KeefChief13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ReplicatedSoda@startrek.website 10 months ago
That wasn’t free. You’re still paying for it.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s just sneaky financing lol
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah but don’t you pay a good bit monthly for the privilege?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
But that’s why they want foldable phones to be a thing.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And why the market took a dive. Phones were 200-300. Then the iPhones and Galaxy’s jumped them to 500-700. Now any top tier is 1000 plus and people’s income has not compensated. As well as the rest of the crap you need to have all those new phones.
They are completely out of touch with normal everyday working people’s incomes and financial needs.
poopkins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think a compounding factor is that the lifespan of phones has also increased. Phone manufacturers are no longer selling a new model to the same user each year.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also the providers aren’t subsidizing the costs as much, probably after realizing that betting on people staying on their plan past the end of the contract led to people just chasing those incentives at other providers once their contract was up.
Not that they aren’t subsidizing phones still, they just aren’t throwing a hundred or two in gift cards or prepaid credit cards on top of the phone anymore.