So about three times the average monthly wage if the numbers I find are right.
(Sneak edit) Just to write it down another way, that means 25% of the average yearly income. For a phone.
For $300, you could get a competitevly specced Android phone with great support for AOSP custom roms. Get one of these, flash AOSP without play services and you've got a reasonably privacy-focused phone.
This has been the case for many years now. https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY
See the second video, which shows a $300 phone of the previous generation beating an iPhone of the latest generation at the time that cost twice as much. I couldn't find a head to head comparison of the iPhone X against a cheap Android of the previous generation, but I expect the outcome to be the same.
> is really good at opening and closing applications.
The video doesn't show speed of closing applications. Opening communication applications is 90% of what users wait for when using a phone, and Android users wait less.
Your artificial benchmarks that measure gaming performance aren't much use to the 99% of users who use their phones more for productivity than for AAA games.
Except for some people living in the Android world. Why is that?
I think it's a bit like people that are denying climate science. They keep looking for new kinds of benchmarks until they find something that fits their predetermined outcome. Some glacier got longer instead of shorter? and boom see no global warming. Some YouTube dude has a video that makes your phone looks fast? and boom look no further. Benchmarks suck!
In this case, they don't, as you can see with your own eyes. That's because the platforms are different.
> Some YouTube dude has a video that makes your phone looks fast?
Every single video that shows app launching has the same result. Don't believe them? Try it yourself. If you get a different result and post it to YouTube, all of your fanboy friends will love it, and you'll get some revenue. The rest of us are happy to use the more productive and less expensive phones.
You're like a person who says climate change is due to solar flares but doesn't actually measure the effect of solar flares on climate to realize that there is a huge amount of warming that is not accounted for by that simple analysis.
The pisser about it, is Motorola, like so many other companies, abandoned it for major updates. It does ostensibly still get major security updates, but...
(unless you're one of the unlucky people with whatever type of iPhone for whom iOS 11 still is borked for some reason, still having trouble on one iPhone 6S Plus with that).
It is only obvious when one enjoys a wealthy life.
There are lots of countries out where people can barely afford something better than a feature phone, and when they do, their hard worked savings are just enough for an Android device.