What do you think? The current Iphone XS starts at 1,149 euro. How does that look in 10 years? Then we have to pay for a HANDY 3,000 euro - 5,000 euro or more. It's not that I could just buy an older phone. The price of all phones will continue to rise. If those at Apple, Huawei, Samsung, etc. See that customers are willing to pay just 700-1,500 euro for a cell phone, they also think that we can make it even more expensive. The companies are not stupid. But how far is that still I ask myself. Maybe there will be no cell phones soon, but until then how far are they going? Do cell phones really start sometime at 2,000 euro or more? The Iphone 4 started many years ago at 300 or 400 euro, I mean. Now the "cheapest" Iphone starts at over 800 euro. No question, we do not all do that but many would like to always have the best phone with the best camera, etc. The mobile phone of course also replaces many things today, such as. The camera. The mobile phones are doing so great pictures nowadays. But how far does that go with the prices? I'm really looking forward to your opinion!
5000 euro is probably a bit too farfetched. The companies must make sure that the price of the price elasticity corresponds so much willing to pay such a price. And the mobile phone is a popular status symbol and therefore many people must be able to afford it, so for me such high sums would only come into question if inflation were to happen. But on tick, the prices will still rise
Thanks first for your answer! But why not 5000 euro? There will still be enough people willing to pay so much. Look at the current situation. Millions of people spend up to 1500 euro or more on a MOBILE. They do not stop at some point and say: we do not want to ask for more than 1500 euro for a mobile phone. The Iphone 6 started at 699 euro. The 8 Series starts at over 800 euro, I think. And other manufacturers are gradually becoming more expensive. Where does that lead?
Let's stay realistic. 5000 euro costs a 65 inch television. There must also be ENOUGH people ready to buy it as now, where every third person has n S9. At some point you can't pay more net if the value of the money does not change
That's the problem, there are so many people willing to pay even more. But do the companies do that too, do they go to the "infinite"?
You do not understand it. There must be a price so that the orthonormal consumers can afford it. There are people who pay 100,000 euro for televisions but for phones that otherwise have so many people that many can't afford how do you imagine that? In addition to house car still 3 loans for mobile phones of yourself and the children?
People could afford 1500 euro for a cell phone. Why not 2000 euro or 3000 euro? Take a look at the price development for the last 10 years.
People buy anyway, if they can buy a car for some 100,000 euro have the money for a 2,000-3000 euro mobile phone. Sure, that's not an unnecessary question, but there are still many who will buy it anyway
No never. Not because of the competition.
If that were true, we would have been over 5,000 euro for a long time.
I have paid for my first calculator equivalent to 6000 euro. With 100 MB hard disk and 16 MB RAM. Just for the 16 MB of RAM converted 1 200 euro.
16 MB of RAM so you can start today nothing more. The seller looked at me as if I had come from another star and could not believe that I wanted 16 MB of RAM.
Today, the MB has become a GB. The price only a fraction.
Just a small example that the price goes down rather, even in the price / performance ratio. Surely you will get a mobile phone for 5,000 euro and more to buy, but these are luxury items for the well-heeled. With Porsche symbol z. B. But the phones are not much more expensive and if you do not necessarily always need the latest model, you will never have to pay much.
How many orthonormal consumers buy cars for one hundred thousand euro. And a jump from 1000 to 2000 or 3000 are after all twice and threefold. Nobody would buy that with normal income. I included
It's exactly what Marmota Bobak says. The trend is that you have to pay less and less for the same performance and the performance increases as prices go up. Wait a few months and your coveted cell phone will always be cheaper. Look out for special offers and do not buy anything for the "regular" price, especially before Christmas. That's how smart buyers act!
"Many always want the best phone, at any price…" right! But only a small number can afford that.
For the provider, it is clever and commercially sent, first rip off the prestige buyers. If sales go down, the price goes down a bit to serve even less well-heeled ones. Then you can reduce it to the production price (almost) to reduce stock levels.
At least not to models beyond the 5000th You say, there will be enough people who are willing to pay so much. If that's true, I can't judge.
But you have hit a key and very well: it is less important whether a customer can afford a product rather than whether he wants to afford it.
Not everyone who can spend 5,000 euro on a smartphone buys one, but some who can't afford it buys it anyway.
This leads to over-indebtedness and at some point you want to buy it, but it does not get anymore.
The mobile phone manufacturer must therefore include his customer base in his calculation. So it is very risky to throw such a high-quality product on the market. At least the costs should come in again.
That's why most high-price smartphones are not their own models, but special editions of existing models, so with a few extras that are not included in the standard. These are sold overpriced. The market is clear.
There's a pride like Oscar, because he thinks he has something special that others can't afford, but does not get the idea that others do not want it.
Smartphones of the upper class are no longer prestige objects and the market is saturated. The manufacturers are therefore always come up with something new to encourage customers of disposable policy, constantly having to have the latest model.
The competition, the customer's wallet, the associated liquidity, and sometimes common sense (albeit perhaps in the form of the "mother") fortunately limit this.
Nobody buys a new device for 5000 every two years. The manufacturers know that too.
