Like 20+ phones.
For the last 5 years I have been chained to the iPhone. I tried to deviate but I simply cannot. I can't appreciate and respect shit quality. And that means plastic.
iPhones aren't made of plastic? Maybe the fifth one... Not sure.
On the other hand, HTC One is made out of aluminum and there are other Android phones that aren't all plastic.
No iPhones are not made of plastic with the exception of the 3GS but that's sooooo behind us. All their products are made of aluminum. HTC is one of the rare manufacturers that makes an aluminum version too, and guess where they copied that from? Apple.
Majority of Android phones (95%+) are made of plastic. Feels cheap. Smells cheap. Looks cheap. Is cheap.
Android is free, and it runs on devices produced at the cheapest cost. And guess what, price determines marketshare. That's the nature of economics. If Apple priced their equipment so cheap, it would dominate the market share. But that's not their focus. When you run a business there are two ends of the spectrum to focus on. Free and premium. Google goes the free route and its value is its userbase. It pulls your information for efficient advertising. Google is the biggest advertising company on the planet. That's how they pay their bills. Apple on the other hand focuses on the premium segment. Less marketshare, but more cold hard cash. That's a sustainable business model that will always work and last. Furthermore, you have to understand that the companies vertically integrated will be most innovative and pioneer markets. Especially in the tech sector when you merge software and hardware. That's the best way to create the most amazing products.
You have so much to learn before you speak.
Just think of the vertically integrated companies in the bitcoin mining world. They suck up most of the profits. How?
1. They design the ASICs.
2. They manufacture the boards.
3. They mine at a large scale while the difficulty is relativly low.
4. They brand their gear, package it, and sell the second hand garbage to morons (the same way Great Britain traded their second hand weapons to Africa for spices.)
5. Ka-ching! Bling-bling!
Now if this were discombobulated and one company does the chips, another manufactures, another hosts the miners, and another handles marketing & sales... you'd have tons of leakage and the overall margin shrinks.
Free doesn't exist in this bitcoin world. Maybe a pure internet service, but in the end everyone wants their cut. Nobody works for free. And top dollars ALWAYS attracts the best talent. And that's why you see the highest quality and most polished apps on iOS. That's the dominate app economy.
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