How can anyone justify spending around $1,500AUD ($900US plus the Australia tax) for a phone? When so called ‘experts’ are saying the latest Google Chromebook, a laptop, is too expensive at the same price, how can they then recommend the latest iPhone, Huawei or Pixel handset?
Because writing about mobile phones is sexy and if you are popular enough they probably send you a free one to review.
Unfortunately I’m in the category of ‘sanity’ and not sexy so no free phones for me. I also wonder at people who bemoan the shortcomings of a $500 laptop yet apparently spend three times that much on something smaller, slower and with fewer functions.
That is why the sales figures quoted (20 million Huawei phones sold in three months) I say are unbelievable, and plain wrong.
Can people really be that stupid? I still have the same phone I purchased three years ago. Yes I would like a new one but I’m also not a rich idiot with $1,500 to throw away for something that does essentially the same thing, only slightly faster.
Look at me, I spend $1,500 a year to not make phone calls. There are around 60 million (estimated total handset sales) of these people every three months? I sincerely doubt it.
It is like buying lobster that tastes like chicken. Why not just buy chicken? Everyone is happy and you have one less mortgage.
The sales figures must be for those buying a phone for the first time, you say? But in a saturated market again the figures are way too high.
Maybe they shipped 20 million handsets to stores, but I bet half will be sent back when they don’t sell.
Please, tell me the world isn’t that crazy that they would buy them!??
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