Re: France Wants to Sue Apple for Planned Obsolescence
nospam <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:58:29 -0400
| Newsgroups | comp.misc,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular.nokia |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <030820231958296604%[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, sms <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. more of your easily debunked revisionist history. customers did *not* reject the original iphone. sales were strong, with long lines for quite some time after release. apple met their sales goal *well* before they said they would. > Those Nokia devices were not the first smart phones either, nobody said they were the first. the point is that symbian phones did not sell well because they were not particularly compelling devices. iphones were, and changed the entire industry as a result.