Even if HTC wasn't willing to go low margin, there is no reason the 8X should be >$600 unlocked. It's a 4.3" phone with an old Snapdragon S4 processor!! It's also rather bulky. The phone should be $400. The only thing going for it are the different colors.It also looks like HTC is NOT going the low-margin route on the 8X. Pricing may be the 8X's Achilles' heel.
Rubbish. Verizon has totally screwed us over, or AT&T is being very generous.
I know being exclusive to AT&T ticked off alot of people. However, you can clearly see the benefits of exclusivity: Price to consumer.
The word "generous" is not part of business vocabulary. Isn't it obvious that AT&T is simply subsidizing the L920 to a larger degree than the 8X? Isn't it obvious that this is part of what Nokia got from AT&T, in return for the L920 being a carrier exclusive?
For what you get, selling the 920 for $99/$459 to customers sounds pretty generous to me.
The word "generous" is not part of business vocabulary. Isn't it obvious that AT&T is simply subsidizing the L920 to a larger degree than the 8X? Isn't it obvious that this is part of what Nokia got from AT&T, in return for the L920 being a carrier exclusive?
For what you get, selling the 920 for $99/$459 to customers sounds pretty generous to me.
Even if HTC wasn't willing to go low margin, there is no reason the 8X should be >$600 unlocked. It's a 4.3" phone with an old Snapdragon S4 processor!! It's also rather bulky. The phone should be $400. The only thing going for it are the different colors.
If that is how you feel, great! If enough non-AT&T subscribers feel similarly and switch to AT&T in order to get the L920 it's a win-win-win situation:
a) AT&T can pick off some of the competitions customers and sell new two-year contracts
b) Nokia sells more L920s
c) Customers get a good deal on a high-end Lumia's
However, none of the above has anything to do with generosity.
Yes. I agree with everything you've stated including the "iffyness"Actually, that's not necessarily the case. Several months back, there was an article on Engadget where they stated a willingness on the part of Nokia to share more money with carriers. It very well might be that Nokia is the cause of this pricing, in the form of giving AT&T the other $100 of a typical flagship device so people can buy the Lumia 920 cheaply.
The only thing that makes such a statement iffy is that the Lumia 820 (on AT&T) is $50, while the 822 is $100 (on Verizon).
According to Wikipedia, generosity is the habit of giving without expecting anything in return. I don't think that applies to AT&T or any other for-profit company, particular not to multinational conglomerates like AT&T. I have no idea why you find it necessary to make that association, but you are free to misunderstand economics if you want to.AT&T is offering a generous discount on the Lumia 920 in order to sell more phones and thereby attract more customers.
According to Wikipedia, generosity is the habit of giving without expecting anything in return. I don't think that applies to AT&T or any other for-profit company, particular not to multinational conglomerates like AT&T. I have no idea why you find it necessary to make that association, but you are free to misunderstand economics if you want to.
I don't know why you continue to incorrectly believe that the word generosity is always synonymous with the word generous, which is also defined as: "substantial: pleasingly large in size or quantity".
I even used in a sentence for you a couple of posts up to help you understand the difference, though it would appear it was all for naught.