if you think the low end market is small in the USA you got another thing coming. Like I said, both samsung AND HTC revealed that their only phones that kept them from completely shitting the bed in their respective quarters were their low-mid end. And sooner or later those chinese companies will start creeping in.
I don't think it's as small as you think it is. Maybe 3 years ago but the past 2 years the low end market has grown a lot and it will only continue.
That sounds about right. In Canada at least people would be shocked at how many of those shitty galaxy Ace phones are activated over the high end ones simply because they are 0 dollars. At least that was before the iphone 5c existed. Not sure if the numbers are the same now.
I buy it. I posted this a page ago:
you're making the assumption that the samsung/htc/lg phones that are selling most are their flagship phones. They all make cheap ass phones as well.
anecdotal evidence
Right. I'm pulling it out of my ass that the low cost market is just about where Android is and where it's heading for sure. Literally every manufacturer is tanking when it comes to flagship android phones. The past 2 years have killed em.
huh? Our model is basically the same shit as the US.
Contract pricing is far less common in Canada. The way the big 3 in US sell phones makes it very difficult to buy phones any other way.
LMAO
We have 3 major carriers in Canada. The total subscriber base for all 3 is about 25 million according to their latest quarterly results. Of that 25 million approximately 3 million are prepaid subscribers (whose numbers have been steadily decreasing the last year).
What's small? Net profits are either tanking or downright bad for all the major android manufacturers which means their premium models aren't selling which probably means the phones that are selling for them are their lower cost models. Even if it's 10-20% whatever, that's not small to me. And it's going up at a pretty fast rate.
my evidence is that android manufacturers all have either negative profits, or tanking profits for the most part. If flagship phones were the majority of their sales they wouldn't be all going into the shitter. Lower cost phones are what's keeping em hanging around. I'm not saying it's impossible for them to reverse, I hope they are able to do it. But as of now it has been trending that way for a while. Even samsung the last bastion of premium sales for android has been dropping like a rock. Technically though, I'll admit that low cost phones in emerging markets are really what's keeping android alive in the USA lol. That and samsung and we see where that's going. I could be wrong. I'm open to it. Maybe all the sales of all the android manufacturers that are selling are all flagships.
I doubt many are getting prepaid iphone 6s and stuff. Most prepaid iphone sales are probably lower cost models like the 5c which is what I'm referring to.
That's simply not true.
Do you have a link for this. I don't know their financials; this could be true. The issue is that no one else believes it and you haven't shown any evidence to support your claim.
Not much
Same as iPhones or Audis or other expensive brands.
iphones are overpriced and overrated? Apple only charges what the market will pay. Their product is one of the extremely few very premium-all-round smartphones out there.