papercut2008uk Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 why does the price of devices jump so much between sizes of internal memory storage? considering how cheap micro SD cards have become, you c an get a 64GB class 10 UHS I 3 micro SD card for around £35! and why do they still make devices with 8/16GB of memory?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 1: Profit 2: Cheapos goretsky, Raa and Jim K 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 3. That sdcard does not have half the lifespan of what is used in phones. Ian W and goretsky 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrAwesome23 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Some of it greed. I thought that internal persistent storage on devices used a different type of storage tech that allowed for more read/writes before it would fail? goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Because sheep are seemingly happy to pay whatever the pricetag is... Crazy, but it seems to work???? The Evil Overlord and macoman 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Entry level devices help build users in an ecosystem, and hopefully when it's time to upgrade they purchase something of the same product, just more storage (because they learn the first time). Let's put it this way, I've been buying 16GB iPhones from the beginning, well my next phone will def be more than that... Sucker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzy88ss Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Simple answer: It's a profit driver for companies. Companies are in business to make profit. If they can't make profit, they'll stop making that product or service. Not really a mystery or anything new. The Evil Overlord and Inertia 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 On 3/4/2016 at 10:04 PM, crazzy88ss said: Simple answer: It's a profit driver for companies. Companies are in business to make profit. If they can't make profit, they'll stop making that product or service. Not really a mystery or anything new. I agreed with that statement, however making the device with the entry level of 16GB, does not make sense. They have been doing this for a lot of years and still applying the same tag price. But thankfully they are alternative phones now compare to years before than you can find right now pretty cheap. You don't need to pay a lot of money for a specific brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryzero Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 It makes most sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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