$80 software is rough, but I don’t actually think $450 for the hardware is as unreasonable as people are making it out to be. It’s not like packing this hardware into a tablet form factor is gonna be cheap.
Remember when the PS3 was $599 in 2006? Adjusted for inflation, that’s $948 today.
Inflation got us good, wish my income had inflated as well…
True.
Inflation doesn’t mean everything increases prices uniformly. Desktop PCs, for example, were more expensive in absolute value in the 1980s, and the average desktop would cost more than $4000 if they had kept with inflation.
This is what cracks me up when people bitch about spending $600 or even $1000 on a phone. Like, you have no idea how cheap this is relatively in computer history and it’s in your pocket and always on.
To be fair, brands sabotage their own phones to try to force people to buy a new one every year. 1000 euros would be fine if the phone lasted the better part of a decade, but between lagging or non existent software updates, broken updates, and no affordable reparability, 1000 doesn’t buy you a phone it pays for an expensive rental.
