Re: France Wants to Sue Apple for Planned Obsolescence

On 8/2/2023 7:51 AM, Otto J. Makela wrote:
> Alan Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> As to "the consumer has rejected it", phones with integrated computers
>> of some sort existed before the iPhone and were largely rejected by
>> consumers are large.
> 
> Being from Finland, I'd like to point out that this view is a bit
> US-centric. Nokia had their Symbian smartphones (first models came out
> in 2001), they just didn't in the end succeed against Apple and Google.


With the first iPhone Apple quickly dropped to price from $599 to $399 
after initial sales volume of the iPhone was less than desired because 
consumers rejected it based on the high price. See: 
<https://www.cultofmac.com/500422/tiah-200-iphone-reduction/>. 
"Suddenly, a smartphone that many people criticized as unfeasibly 
expensive became far more affordable."

Those Nokia devices were not the first smart phones either, the first 
smart phone was the 1994 IBM Simon, which was around $2200 in 2023 dollars.

Part of Steve Jobs genius was seeing the potential in product categories 
where other companies had failed to produce a compelling product at an 
acceptable price point. Apple didn't have the first personal computers, 
the first tablets, the first laptops, or the first smart phones, but 
they avoided the mistakes of the other companies.

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