QuantumZebra
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Yup. The Note 8 is also horrifically expensive, so the iPhone X is hardly an outlier in that regard.
I wonder if Samsung and Apple's price increases will lead to a slowdown in the pace of phone upgrades for many users. Obviously the bleeding edge people will still go for the latest and greatest, but for many users I think upgrading every 18 months or 24 months becomes less likely when the price of doing so is ~900-1100 as opposed to 700-800. If that does happen, in the long term, Samsung and Apple may regret encouraging users to hang onto their devices for longer.
With that said, I understand why the prices are going up. The processors are quite impressive, they have a fair amount of RAM, decent storage space, impressive screens, luxurious materials. They're not cheap to make or market. For Apple and Samsung they have to focus on differentiating themselves from the many mid-tier offerings.
True on that.
I can't really fathom how a phone could offer me more than the S8+. I thought the same about my S7 Edge though so YMMV. The backplate fingerprint sensor is legit and the screen on the S8+ is just so fucking insane.