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Re:Android 4.0 updates: It is all about the money by untog on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:18PM (#3393663)
Well if you want to take that argument, examine the difference in sales between Android and iPhone. Android phones are far, far more popular and I'm quite sure that the lower price of the average Android handset has a lot to do with that.

It's true that there is a subset of people who just buy the cheapest thing available — but there's also a pretty sizable segment of the population who might not be able to evaluate for themselves whether or not a phone is a good buy

Absolutely. But the latter are the minority.

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Re:Android 4.0 updates: It is all about the money by chc on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:32PM (#3393706)
That's neither here nor there. The point isn't that Samsung's sales will drop to zero — just that there is a lot of value in a good reputation. Apple has built its success on people loving it. If you piss people off and your competitor doesn't, you will lose customers to them, and they might very well make more money than you even though you have more plastic on the streets (which is the case with Apple vs. most Android manufacturers).
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