Originally Posted by Heanor_Man31:
“One costs up to £919... the other up to £229. There comes a time where you need to start including premium features for a premium price.”
But what can you
really do for that extra money? Whatever the design, it's still a subjective opinion about how great it is to look at.
It's not quite like a car, where you can get a lot more by paying a ridiculous sum of money. And even in the motoring world, you have car markers offering high performance at lower prices and in many cases you're paying big bucks because only a handful were ever made. It might even be seen as an investment.
A phone can never be like that and never will be.
The bigger issue now is whether Joe Public needs all that extra processing power, and whether the improved camera makes any real difference when photos are being shared on 5-inch screens with each other, and never going near a big screen TV, desktop monitor or printed out and framed.
Can you use social networking on a £100 phone? Can you get 4G? Does the battery last a day or two? Does it charge quickly? Does it keep up with you without lagging or stuttering?
I think a lot of phones from £80-150 will now manage all of that without issue. And that's the bigger long-term problem for Apple, as it will have to accept that people are going to eventually seek to pay less for a phone.
Apple will need to balance the number of people still paying a premium versus the lost sales as people invariably shop elsewhere. I think Apple will have to continue to look at offering a cheaper option. Problem is, the 5C never sold that well (until discounted and promoted heavily) and the SE isn't a lower spec, just a smaller screen.
The same problem Samsung will have now it has chosen to go all in at the top end of the market.