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What in the world are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing

Not fanboyism, which is clearly what you're on. http://www.expansys.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s4-i9500-3g-octa-core-unlocked-16gb-black-mist-240604/ = $649 http://www.expansys.com.au/apple-iphone-5-lte-16gb-unlocked-black-236918/ = $775 You may also note the S4 is newer and will drop in price over it's lifetime. The Iphone 5 is older and will never drop in price.

What in the world are you smoking, and why aren't you sharing

Not fanboyism, which is clearly what you're on. http://www.expansys.com.au/samsung-galaxy-s4-i9500-3g-octa-core-unlocked-16gb-black-mist-240604/ = $649 http://www.expansys.com.au/apple-iphone-5-lte-16gb-unlocked-black-236918/ = $775 You may also note the S4 is newer and will drop in price over it's lifetime. The Iphone 5 is older and will never drop in price.

It looks like at some point the Lumia 800 was on the top of Expansys' Swedish top20 page and Expansys' Australian top20 page.

So "it was on top of sales charts of Sweden and Australia" isn't an outright lie...

Bullshit. Every single one of those phones is sold with a contract, and Apple most certainly knows how many phones the carriers are selling.

Oh really? I am sure you will show me in the fine print where places like expansys provide these mythical contracts then? http://www.expansys.com.au/store/apple-iphone-4/

Just like here in Australia where Vodafone have been "planning" to release this phone since it was frigging announced. I got sick of waiting so I checked out google's online store. "This product is not available in your location". Well great. Thanks a lot. Spent my money on beer instead.

Expansys AU - A$860
Expansys UK - GBP 480 (A$790)

I bought the Milestone instead.

I currently have one of these -- at least until the Return Authoristaion form comes through. The hardware is superb, but the drivers are a complete write-off. In between crashing my N-Gage, it really does work well.

But recently, local stores have been able to get more and more stuff in that I want, so I haven't been buying as much stuff from Amazon. Expansys is a good source of gadgets.

Way back when, razor companies had similar issues. They all produced razors that would last forever and you could resharpen them before every use. The problem was that the profit margins on razors where almost nothing (attempting to avoid a pun). I believe it was Gillete (the man, not the company) that came along and decided to help consumers get around the sharpening bit by allowing people to buy disposable razors. Quality wasn't as good and in the long run, you had to pay much more, but hey, you didn't have to sharpen them!

Its always been a practice in business to create a product, but have some aspect of keeping your money going in the long run. Offering upgrades to existing products won't really cause the public to upgrade. I still have old computers laying around left and right and honestly, I don't own a computer that is over 800MHz. My wife, on the other hand, is someone that will buy something cheap, allow it to wear down or break and buy another cheap thing to replace it. Oddly enough, she has one computer (1.6GHz) and she almost bought a new one due to the fact that it started running slowly. She refuses to think anything bad of MicroSoft and feels that the upgrades help her and that they are worth the price. I've given up trying to convince her otherwise and (mostly) refuse to work on her computer.

Until consumers start to really realize that they are getting had so corporations are more profitable, we won't see much change. Its just like the rumor that there are vehicles out there that can do over 100mpg but we still have SUVs that are getting 14mpg. While cheaper in the short term, paying the extra expense for a "green" vehicle ends up saving money in the long run. But then you have to worry about replacing your "green" car and the cycle continues.

Now, to get back on topic of the iPod, if the kid would have done his research first instead of panicing and pulling everything apart, we wouldn't be here making jokes about him. Now someone needs to send this kid a gift: http://www.expansys.com.au/product.asp?code=112993

As more and more devices can be charged by USB maybe the power-over-USB standard (5v IIRC) will turn into a standard for low power connectors.

Voip phones and wireless access points can be powered by POE (power over ethernet).

There are already USB car & AC chargers available:
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=EXP_USB-T C-EU
http://www.expansys.com.au/product.asp?code=EXP_US B-CLA

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