Does the OnePlus have the same tech as iPhone? Are you comparing it fairly? The Galaxy Note 9 is $1000 in the US. The 6T gets crushed by the A12 chip in the XR. The XR is about $150 more than the 6T, comparing it with the Max is disingenuous. The XR also has one hour longer battery life. The XR also has FaceID. So the 6T has a worse camera, dramatically slower processor, and lower-life battery. You are free to make a comparison, but it’s comparing a Hyundai with an Audi. The XR costs more because you are getting more. Whether or not you want that “more” is a personal choice, but let’s not pretend that the XR is overpriced. Apple could make a shittier phone and end up priced like the 6T. OnePlus is also operating at barely any profit. So if you took out Apple’s average 38% margin, that puts the XR at $464; so Apple is making a much better phone at a lower price than OnePlus — which makes OnePlus’s tech all the more disappointing: they spend more than Apple and ship a worse phone.
The 2018 MacBook Air isn’t 2x the price of a 2017 Air in the United States. First of all, the 2017 MacBook Air was actually a 2015 MacBook Air with a tiny bump in clock speed. Retail price in 2017 was $999. Retail price in 2018? $1199. The 2018 has Touch ID and retina which the 2017 version didn’t. That’s not even close to “2x the price.)” The tariffs pre-2018 were 15% on computers, now they are over 17%. Then there is an 18% sales tax on top of that! So 35% of the MacBook Air cost in India is just taxes. That means the government of India makes as much “profit” on a laptop as Apple does for making the damned things. Perhaps have a chat with your government about those high tariffs? Apple didn’t double the price, your taxes went up.
Here in India, the 2018 Macbook Air is about $1550. The 2017 version is $920.
I've been using a OnePlus 5T and honestly can't fathom any reason why I would want a faster processor any time soon. And the OnePlus 6T is even faster.
I'm just saying that charging people $1500 for a phone and then wondering why they're not buying any is a dumb strategy.
doesn't feel or look different enough to matter - and that's what matters to most consumers. apple used to have a monopoly on looks and speed. now android flagships have gotten 90percent of the way there for 50 percent of the price
It is not how it is played out elsewhere in the world. First there is additional tax Apple is putting on upon the US retail price tag. Second, almost all foreign currency had deprecated against dollars in 2018. 2x might be dramatic, but 150% is what I see with my own eyes.
That doesn't change the fact Apple chooses to have the customers pay for it to maintain its own margin. It is not wrong, but it does make it expensive.
That's an absurd price for a phone. A brand new OnePlus 6T is a third of the price.
Their new laptops are also insanely priced. The 2018 Macbook Air is more than 2x the price of the 2017 Macbook Air.
I don't know what kind of pricing strategy this is, but it has turned me completely off the company's lineup.