iPhone 13 Launch This Week

[Freeder]

1 hour ago, Discoburg said:

PM you better.

Received with much ❤️ 

[Discoburg]

Just ordered a apple leather case. Hope its nice to the touch.

[t0y0ta]

51 minutes ago, Discoburg said:

Just ordered a apple leather case. Hope its nice to the touch.

I paid the apple leather case tax before and seriously.... never again.

[Discoburg]

1 minute ago, t0y0ta said:

I paid the apple leather case tax before and seriously.... never again.

Why need to pay tax for it?

[Kopites]

 

After they cleaned up cross the next "fun" place. Abit of far away from Sydney though. 😁

Wow my Samsung can never get such high quality video. 👍

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by Kopites

[Genes]

22 hours ago, Discoburg said:

Why need to pay tax for it?

He means the Apple markup.

[Discoburg]

1 minute ago, Genes said:

He means the Apple markup.

Well you gotta pay for the premium packaging, branding etc.

[Discoburg]

25 minutes ago, happy_man said:

I am abit surprised more advanced Asian countries like S Korea or Japan cannot win Apple contract to make iPhones their factories.

It will be very costly to have iPhones made in Japan or Korea. I will be very surprised if apple have products made in those 2 countries.

[Wolfverine]

55 minutes ago, Discoburg said:

It will be very costly to have iPhones made in Japan or Korea. I will be very surprised if apple have products made in those 2 countries.

Agree - as it is, the selling price for iPhones already commands a premium. If they were to be made in KR/JPN, production costs will be higher and highly doubtful Apple will want to narrow their profit margin to keep the selling price the same.

[Discoburg]

37 minutes ago, Wolfverine said:

Agree - as it is, the selling price for iPhones already commands a premium. If they were to be made in KR/JPN, production costs will be higher and highly doubtful Apple will want to narrow their profit margin to keep the selling price the same.

I really shudder at the thought of the iPhones made in such countries. They will cost much more then a Macbook for sure.

[Discoburg]

26 minutes ago, happy_man said:

Indeed - However, there are many Apple-die-hard-Fans who are prepared to spend a fortune or sell their kidneys and to own a iPhone!

This means cost is not a a major barrier for pple who wants a Apple product.

This goes back to my fundamental question - Why Apple Inc continue to contract manufacturing to Chinese factories when they priced their products at a premium which the market is prepared to stomach ? 🤔

 

You already said that the Apple products are priced at a premium and market will able to stomach it. So why not continue to manufacture in a Low cost country with reasonable facilities, infrastructure, government and have huge mark ups?

[inlinesix]

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[Arogab]

On 9/27/2021 at 4:45 PM, happy_man said:

I am abit surprised more advanced Asian countries like S Korea or Japan cannot win Apple contract to make iPhones their factories.

Their expertise is not in here. Foxconn, Luxshare, and the other Contract manufacturer are the low cost company providing the manufacturing. Hopefully they don't go into vicious competition

[Lala81]

On 9/27/2021 at 12:32 PM, Kopites said:

 

After they cleaned up cross the next "fun" place. Abit of far away from Sydney though. 😁

Wow my Samsung can never get such high quality video. 👍

 

iphone has the best video.

[Discoburg]

6 minutes ago, Arogab said:

Their expertise is not in here. Foxconn, Luxshare, and the other Contract manufacturer are the low cost company providing the manufacturing. Hopefully they don't go into vicious competition

Read somewhere that Foxconn had set up plants in India and now wanna move them back to china.

[inlinesix]

Just now, Discoburg said:

Read somewhere that Foxconn had set up plants in India and now wanna move them back to china.

That's for India Market only.

[Discoburg]

Just now, inlinesix said:

That's for India Market only.

What talking you?