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Originally Posted by SeaKing
I am going to have to take you on.
1. You neglect the total cost of a smartphone which includes not only the cellular part but the cost of a phone/data package. Somewhere between $1000 to $2000 or more per year.
$150 to $300 for a player is still less than $400 to $600 for a unlocked smartphone that is not used as a phone.
2. You assume only Apple is thinking about bringing the children up in an operating system and a particular market. Do you think no one over at Samsung or Google or another android operating system will think of that.
3. And finally, you are thinking that with no more unneeded parts to throw into players, why should Samsung or anyone bother to manufacture some parts for their android players. While of course Apple will do this.
Man, that is a real stretch!
(Personally, I think you just fell off the dock.)
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Apple is not a manufacturer it just orders part it requires where as Samsung needs to keep running its manufacturing plants as stopping and restarting many of them would cost lot more instead of just producing and selling or using the parts.
You Americans think you are the only ones that exist in this world. What $1000-2000 phone plans. Most people in asia use prepaid cards instead of lines and transfer media to each other by bluetooth wifi or using cables. Majority dont have access to 3g let alone 4g. And to them buying a $200-300 phone that can play media is the same as a galaxy player just they have the added functionality of having a phone. So like I said Samsung is unlikely to make these players as they could use the parts manufacturing capacity on smartphones for Asia.