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iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak (scmp.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple's iPhone has been losing ground to domestic competitors in China. That is because Chinese smartphone makers offer sophisticated functions at reasonable prices, according to Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and one of the pioneers of the personal computer industry. "Here is what I admire about Chinese phones: really good, intelligent decisions about how to lower the cost but keep enough of the functionality in, because I am into products that are good, well designed, nice looking, but at prices that the average person can afford," he said. Still, Wozniak believes the quality of Apple's product makes it worth the high price tag. "In life I don't believe in quantity as much as I do in quality. So you may not have the hugest share in the market or be the No 1, but you should have the best product you can possibly build and Apple qualifies for that," Wozniak, told reporters after he discussed artificial intelligence with Liu Zihong, chairman and chied executive of Royole, in a technology forum held at Tianan Cyber Park in Dongguan, Guangdong province, on Tuesday. Unlike Chinese smartphone brands that prioritise cost-effectiveness, Apple's popular and more expensive iPhone handsets are still the leader in innovation in certain features despite being more of a "safe product," he said. "Apple products are safe. And Apple's pricing is high in the extreme. It's a safe bet for a lot of people, and when you love Apple you are willing to pay for it," he said.
When the Apple iPhone was terrible at making phone calls. Thankfully, nowadays nobody uses iPhones for that purpose anymore, so it doesn't really matter.
I pull out my iPhone when I want to impress someone, but it doesn't actually have a SIM in it. I use an Android phone to communicate with people.
I anticipate a serious, informative and insightful discussion on not just the merits of the iphone, but about the general concepts of value and how it relates to personal preferences and requirements.
Please? Maybe?
By that logic all Chinese companies need to do to claim that their phones are American is hire a guy in California to draw a rectangle on a sheet of paper and call that the design document. Sure, a lot of it was engineered overseas, just like the iPhone, but it was designed in California so it's an American phone!
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Don't forget the rounded corners!
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
No no no no no. No.
With the Pixel, the branding and marketing speak have all made it very clear. Pixel is "Made by Google"(tm). Do not look behind the curtain. Do not compare the design and components to existing phones made by HTC. Do not question whether Google actually has manufacturing lines, foundries, or any physical product design experience.
Just repeat the mantra. Made by Google. Made by Google. Made by Google.
Oh Google, we thank you for your services, and we humbly accept the fact that we are the product. We ask that you keep us and hold our data so that we may enter into thine Divine Ecosystem. We ask not why you taketh away Reader, Latitude, or most of your other gifts for we know naught of your Divine Plan; instead we rejoice in the bounty that are Apps and AdWords that you so Graciously provide us.
In the name of the Alphabet, and of the Android, and of the Holy Google we pray.
And now, as Brothers Page and Brin pass the collection plates, we shall recite Schmidt's prayer.
Our Google, which art in Silicon Valley,
Hallowed be thy Names.
Thy Monopoly come.
Thy will be done in Android,
As it is in Web.
Give us this day our daily apps.
And forgive us our Ad Blockers,
As we forgive them that Ad Block against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from Apple.
For thine is the Monopoly,
The spying, and the advertising,
For ever and ever.
Amen.