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On 2024-05-01 08:33, Andrew wrote:
> Chris wrote on Wed, 1 May 2024 07:36:54 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>> Apple is expensive because it doesn't target the low end, high volume but
>> targets demanding users who need robust, reliable hardware that works.
>> Hence why it's favoured by professionals in creative industries.
> 
> Apple makes over 50% profit on each iPhone last I checked (admittedly long
> ago), whereas Android profits are far lower than that.

How did you "check" that, exactly?

> 
> Why?
> Because Apple Marketing is one of the best on earth, perhaps even better
> than Big Tobacco and Big Soda marketing (which themselves are excellent).
> 
> Apple has no qualms about telling "The Big Lie" (and, as proof, look at the
> plethora of expensive lawsuits Apple lost for spewing all those lies).

Apple hasn't lost any lawsuits of consequence.

> 
> So the real reason Apple products are expensive is Apple Marketing has
> convinced the gullible uneducated technically inferior people that it's
> better (and those technically clueless people don't know any better).

Why do people KEEP using Apple's products, hmmm?