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And none of that margin is there for the retailers - typically less than 5% margin for them on phones, etc.Why do you think Apple is the richest company in the world? It sure doesn't cost anywhere near what they charge to produce, advertise, and market an iPhone! There's a HUGE profit in there too. They pioneered the genre with a stylish capable product that built on their mystique of classy innovation, and now they're riding the wave at it's crest. The high price just adds to the "swank appeal" that sold Accutrons and Breutlings before they came along (and, of course, adds to the the bottom line).
My $28 ZTE works for me and has 16G of RAM and a better receiver/transmitter/antenna than half the pricey phones out there. PRC scores again!
Cheers,
Wes
ZTE Z899VL Majesty Pro Plus, A model for the North American market and sold through Walmart and TracPhone. Never seen it sold anywhere else.Which ZTE model is it? $28 certainly has my attention
Unfortunately, this Z899VL uses old school CDMA technology; I don't think it knows how to talk GSM, so don't think it will work outside North America. If your market was the size of ours, and if you had the equivalent of Walmart in every city, town, and podunk crossroads, ZTE would probably market a GSM version over there.Wow.
So that's £20 for the Majesty. The specs are excellent for £20!!!! Far better than I would have expected and it actually seems a half decent phone.
The cheapest ZTE phone I can get is Blade A110 which is £60 or $84 so $28 is cheap. Also the Blade A110 has much worse specs for more money! For £20 I can only find basic dumb phone so your phone is certainly a bargain. Although ZTE is the favourite kick ball for your government as they want to ban ZTE products been used!
Where TF is Peking?ZTE and Huawei are in trouble because it's believed they have spyware which sends the porn choices of USA Government officials directly to Peking.
I have no idea if this is true.
Since virtually all modern smartphones are made in China then it's a bit late to be concerned if they are all reporting to Peking.
from a 2012 article: This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The US Is ScrewedApple doesn't build iPhones in the United States, in other words, because there is no longer an ecosystem here to support that manufacturing. There's no supply chain, there aren't enough super-low-cost workers, and there are not enough mid-level engineers. And many Americans looking for work are still hoping for a return to jobs, salaries, and lifestyles that have simply disappeared.
We've been there, done that, we called it "the industrial revolution": Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, US in the 19th and 20th. Then we got prosperous and forgot what it was like to be hungry and hardscrabble.Yep. Third world sweatshops so we can buy cheap junk.
And they say slavery was abolished.
18th CENTURY: hardscrabble American gunmakers aspired to the techniques of fine European gunsmiths such as Britain's Joe Manton.We've been there, done that, we called it "the industrial revolution": Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, US in the 19th and 20th.
WHO SAYS??Norinco is a case in point.
Chinese guns are banned in USA.