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Originally Posted by leebase

Or perhaps they are happy making the best products they can and are proud of and they let the marketshare fall where it may.

That is the same thing as not caring. They are only interested in the high margin high end part of the phones. There will always be a place for them there no matter how big or small that market is - even if the mid to low end phones become more and more powerful.

So...putting words in someone else's mouth is being "open minded"?

I never said that iPhone buyers wouldn't consider the Fire Phone due to it "not being Apple". I said that iPhone buyers are not the ones buying on price and thus are less likely to be swayed by the dumping of the unsold Firephone stock.

As many as there are iPhones I highly doubt those are only buyers at full retail price. If it wasn't for subsidized phones, there wouldn't be as many iPhones around. The same is true for high end phones from Samsung, HTC and the like.

The same would be true of Mercedez buyers unlikely to be swayed if the Ford Festiva gets marked down half price.

There is you not being open minded - a Mercedes does have a reason to be more expensive - it is a whole different class of vehicle. You are trying to say that the iPhone is like a Mercedes and a Fire phone merely qualifies as a Festiva or Fiesta? That is a pretty big hype for an iPhone. Did you ever see a subsidized Mercedes at the new car dealer that low income people can afford?

Is it such a stretch to imagine that those who will take Amazon up on the Fire Phone, now that it's cheap, are those that were in the market for a cheap phone in the first place?

No that is not a stretch at all. However it is a very big mistake to think that those were the only ones interested.