• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    “Paid by apple”.

    So…does he think that because Apple is “Paying”, that price won’t get passed down to the consumer?

    Is he so fucking dense that he thinks that Apple will eat a quarter of the cost of their flagship product line…one that already has razor-thin margins to begin with? Is he that entitled?

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      22 hours ago

      Trump is a buffoon, but I don’t think more than 2x the cost counts as “razor-thin margins”

      Price breakdown per iPhone

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        21 hours ago

        The production costs don’t account for the ungodly amounts of money they sink into marketing to brainwash their consumer base into thinking that their phones and other products are worth paying so much for.

        Marketing used like that is an insane waste of wealth and productivity IMO.

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          21 hours ago

          Apple is the third richest company on the planet. Sometimes first, sometimes second. They didn’t get there by shining shoes.