Samsung seems to be a just a little behind the learning curve. They have been dinged for plastic phones so they came out with the best reviewed and probably Android phones of the year in the Note 5 and Edge Plus. But their pricing is a little high in a saturated Android market space.
But the same people here in this thread have complained about other phone brands being over priced has no problem spending $900 to $1000 on an iPhone. smh.........
That was my point
Agreed.
The nature of the market place is a different debate.
Apple can charge what they want because you, my forum friends (and myself in the past), will pay what they ask. Don't buy it, and you will see an immediate change from Apple. It's plain and simple. Also, its only logical that if you are going to critize samsung for pricing, for example, you do the same with Apple.
Both companies have R&D cost, but Samsung spends more. Samsung also gives bleeding edge tech in their phones. They may not have 3d touch, but that have edge screen, best in class displays, fasters storage by a mile, etc.. The list goes on, and finally Samsung is making slow progress on the software front.
Samsung has the better argument for their prices. Apples is "becasue we can". You don't have to believe me on that, besides for spending less on research, their profit margins prove it. You don't make that much money per phone if you are putting a ton of money into tech and research.
That being said, both companies need a reality check on prices, and due to Android competition, Samsung will get the memo sooner.
Still... Us as consumers have the most power to control this. Complain all you want, but if you keep buying, the price will stay the same or go up. Period. I am as guilty as anyone.
. I agree that this is greedy stuff from apple but these are kind of stuff Apple did all the time(like no flash, always the last to upgrade ram, late nfc integration). For me personally it's not a dealbreaker.
