From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system
"Stefan Claas" <
stefan@ctemplar.com> wrote
| > IPhones and subsequent smartphones are a different story. Everybody has one,
| > EVERYBODY, including the homeless and people in foreign lands who live
in
| > bamboo shacks without indoor plumbing.
|
| 'EVERYBODY'? I sold mine and switched to a dumb phone, Made in Germany ...
|
I had to replace my 3G Tracphone recently and was
pleasantly surprised to find a full-featured Android Blu
View 1 for $30. I don't know how they can even buy the
hardware at that price. With a 4-core CPU and 2 GB
RAM! Crazy.
My guess is that it's assembled
by Chinese or SE Asian slave labor, like iPhones, and
that Google provides a subsidy because they expect
to be able to spy on me constantly. Or maybe Tracphone
subsidizes it.
Though I must
say, it does really piss me off that for $30 I couldn't
get a "pink gold" phone with 7 60mp cameras, a fitness
plan, and a Dick Tracy watch. So I guess I should have
spent another $1,600 for one of Timmy Cook's status
blobs that can talk to my wrist.
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