Hi,
I was just reading an article about distribution of wealth in Canada. Apparently the 1% (wealthy) make 10 times more than the average Canadian.
Seems a bit unbalanced....amazing what greed will do.
The reason I mention this is because it fits in nicely with the other thing I want to talk about. Smartphones!
I also read today that Apple was going to release 2 new phones. Apparently there is a cheaper version made of plastic rather than "fancy smartphone plastic". did you get my humor there?!!
So Apple says that it made the 5C so it would be cheaper??? Have a look at the going rate for this "New Cheaper 5C"!!!
In Europe, the iPhone 5C will be as much or more than China. In the United Kingdom, it's £469 ($741); in France and Germany, it's €599 ($796). Other countries will have it for slightly less, as low as $579, but nowhere is it "cheap."
Even reading between the lines doesn't seem to make it cheaper. Well, anyway, they say "color is fun". So am I to pay that kind of price for a phone that has a new color????? Why didn't they just sell a set of colored skins with the device so anyone can have whatever color they want on any day?
Also there is a finger print feature to unlock your phone, but Apple said that they would not keep your prints on their records. Why would I want Apple to have a copy of my fingerprint???
They also say that it could be possible with developing technology that you could tie the fingerprint scanner to payments. (did they not just say they would not keep your fingerprints??)
The phone is also sporting an 8 mega pixel camera. So what, Blackberry already has that!
I am not seeing anything in this new phone that isn't already on the market other than a new price.
I am glad that I am not a phone junkie where I need to get my fix of a new phone each time some company drops one.
Apple seems to be playing catch-up with the market leader. (and it isn't doing anything fancy to capture that number one spot back) Welcome Apple, to the fickle, fussy world of the consumer. One day you are at the front of the alphabet (A is for Apple) the next you are chasing another letter of the alphabet.
I think if the consumer was smart, they would refuse to pay big bucks for a phone and stop buying them. Then maybe big corporations would have to rethink their strategy when designing and pricing the device. People are slowly seeing that maybe they don't want to waste a paycheck on a phone anymore. The time of mark-ups with 'made in somewhere else' labels needs to stop. Made in Taiwan. That tells me that it is made for less than $100 a device. (see above for the retail price of the phone near you) I really don't call that profit....I call that robbery.
This is how the CEO of Apple gets his 1.4 million paycheck.
So getting back to the original article I read first.....maybe we should ask the Assembler in Taiwan what his annual salary is and if he is buying a new iPhone? Probably not!
More like "iPhoneU from a payphone. its cheaper!"
Quote of the Day......
" more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet."
Marc Andreessen
A sad reflection of our society today....materialism over the well being of another human.
