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Have smartphone manufacturers lost touch with reality? – Have Smartphone Makers Lost Touch With Reality?


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Published on: March 1, 2019 / Update from: March 1, 2019 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein

Have smartphone manufacturers lost touch with reality? – @envato | Raw pixels

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When Apple released the $999 iPhone There's no way anyone in their right mind would spend that much money on a smartphone. And yet here we are, a year and a half later, and other smartphone brands have followed Apple's lead and made $1,000-plus price tags the new norm for top-of-the-line devices.

However, this week's Mobile World Congress has brought us to a new level of smartphone price escalation, with both Huawei and Samsung announcing foldable phones that will cost nearly $2,000 or even more. While flexible screens are certainly one of the more impressive innovations the smartphone industry has had to offer recently, the prices of the first flexible smartphones suggest that the industry has lost touch with reality.

According to a recent USA Today survey, the vast majority of smartphone users in the U.S. are unwilling to spend more than $750 on a new device. Only 3 percent of respondents said they would be willing to spend more than $1,000 on a new phone. Prices of $2,000 or more are too absurd to even make it into the survey.

When Apple released the $999 iPhone X in the fall of 2017, many people thought that the company famous for its premium pricing had finally overdone it. No way anyone in their right mind would spend that much money on a smartphone. And yet here we are, one and a half years later and other smartphone brands have followed Apple's lead, making price tags in excess of $1,000 the new norm for top-of-the-line devices.

This week's Mobile World Congress has brought us to a new level of smartphone price escalation, however, with both Huawei and Samsung announcing foldable phones that will cost close to or even more than $2,000. While flexible screens are certainly one of the more impressive innovations the smartphone industry has had to offer lately, the prices of the first flexible smartphones suggest that the industry has lost touch with reality.

According to a recent USA Today poll , the vast majority of smartphone users in the US aren't willing to spend more than $750 on a new device. Only 3 percent of the respondents expressed their willingness to spend more than $1,000 on a new phone, with prices of $2,000 or more too absurd to even make it into the survey.

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