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Originally Posted by fcastro
Someone on here pointed out that everyone and there mother wants smart phones now. You had a lot of great points. Only thing I will say is off course is that the more smartphones come online, the cheaper it SHOULD become. As technology catches on, prices drop. Cell phone companies are doing everything they can to protect there money streams. Verizon and AT&T are super powers that don't compete as far as pricing. The US is FAR behind European markets in terms of phones and pricing. While Europe is GSM, they have cheaper plans and don't have phones that are carrier locked. In other words there is much great offerings to customers.
Just to further eloborate, lets look at DVD players...again as more and more people started getting them, prices dropped. Cell phones the same thing. Eventually smart phones and there plans will also drop.
Also I think if you are SERO customer, yes we have a great deal and again like I said does it make financial sense to increase your costs by 30% to jump platforms, to me it doesn't. I hate/love windows mobile. I would never recommend it to anyone who wasn't a tweaker because out of the box the OS is a slug compared to either android and iphone. I am not a fanboy, I have owned a mogul, a touch pro, and now my touch pro 2. I am still on WM because I am paying roughly $35 bucks a month 
Verizon, I get so angry at them everytime I remember that they started charging .25 cents for a text message. Greedy corporate giant... |
I have 2 things to say to this.
1) Supply and demand... As demand goes up and supply is low, price is up. Demand is high (if you want a 4g phone) and supply is low (only so many 4g phones and 4g carriers out there) so, they get to charge what they want. Think of it as the early adopter fee.
2) DVD players are not a good example since you are paying for a physical piece of hardware, not the DVD service to go with it. With Sprint you are paying for the phone and the service. In this case this is a new service (4g) that is being built out. So there is a premium on using this service or buying a device that works with this service. Remember when Wireless N was still a spec in its infancy and companies we making cards for that spec, they charged more for the Wireless N cards than for the b/g cards, why?? It's a new service/product that they are offering and they need to recoup their R&D costs.