The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.
  • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m referring to the average - obviously there’ll always be decentbudget phones with an unbeatable price-to-performance ratio.

    Here’s a source for my claim - I couldn’t find any better ones after a few minutes.

    According to this:

    The ASP [average selling price] of the North American smartphone market reached its historic Q1 record high of US$790 this year.

    Yes, the low sale of budget phones certainly contributes, however, the market for premium phones grew by 33% from last year.

    With more and more people having more and more expensive phones, how will having replacable batteries while being waterproof drive up the price?

    • GaryPonderosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The average iseaningless here.

      I sell a phone for 1 billion dollars. That raises the average price to a million dollars. If you go to any store and grab 100 phones at random, their pricing will not reflect the average.