| > Actually, it's often the opposite. In the Boston area, the Apple Stores are always packed while the Microsoft Store (now closed) was usually mostly empty in the high-end mall across the street from the stand-alone Boylston Street Apple Store. We know that anecdote says nothing. The only thing that the Microsoft store and Apple store sell in common are computers and Mac marketshare is around 10%. It’s not even close. > Price isn't the primary factor for many people, especially younger people. If price weren’t the determining factor, the average iPhone buyer wouldn’t live in a household in the US with A 40% higher income. https://www.comscore.com/ita/Public-Relations/Infographics/i... > First, there's no real price difference between high-end Android phones—the newest Samsung, for example—and similar iPhones.
A Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G 128GB list price is $1399; the iPhone 11 Pro Max with 256GB (double the storage) is $1249. That's $52.04/month. Only in the US. My understanding is that most of the rest of the world doesn’t have monthly payment options where the price delta would be more apparent. But also, there are high end Android phones that cost the same, but out of the Android manufactures, Samsung has the highest average selling price, and it’s like $290 - $100 less than the cheapest iPhone. They haven’t been able to convince many people to pay for high end phones. > The iPhone is definitely in that category, with 85% of them either owning or intending to buy an iPhone: A survey also showed that 58% of iPod owners “intended” to buy a Zune in 2006.... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2006/11/5826/ |
I can tell you based on where I live and who I work with, there are many people who are low and moderate income who own iPhones now.
They don’t buy their phones outright like some people do; they usually can’t drop $1000 in one go on something that’s not their rent.
However, low and moderate income people can pay $10 or $20 a month for the phone while using prepaid services.
To be blunt, that’s why poor inner city kids can rock very nice iPhones.
An iPhone SE is $200 on a carrier deal; it’s a better phone than anything else in that price range that low and moderate income people can afford.