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by nradov 2521 days ago
Samsung sells huge volumes of high end phones.
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scarface74 2521 days ago
The average selling price of Samsung’s phones is $235. (https://www.sammobile.com/2017/08/02/average-selling-price-s...). Most of their phones are low end.
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pessimizer 2521 days ago
An average selling price doesn't speak to whether they ship a huge number of high end phones, just that if they do, they ship far more low end phones.
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scarface74 2521 days ago
Samsung ships about twice the number of phones as Apple but has a third of the ASP. The conclusion that most Samsung phones are low end is not hard to reach.
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ineedasername 2521 days ago
But your contract with Verizon or whoever, minus monthly portion paid towards handset, is the same. Not only that, but iOS has a pretty decent install base of older handsets, a significant chunk of iOS's ~45% market share. So even if iOS users did represent higher revenue customers, it would be years and years before optimizing for new intel-derived 5g modems would impact more than a minority of users, while inconveniencing everyone else.

For a currently-possible comparison scenario, are there issues with providers optimizing their networks for qualcom to the detriment of Samsung?

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