{"id":93154,"date":"2019-02-26T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=581393"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:37:18","slug":"comment-latest-samsung-and-huawei-folding-phones-make-iphones-look-cheap-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/26\/comment-latest-samsung-and-huawei-folding-phones-make-iphones-look-cheap-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Latest Samsung and Huawei folding phones make iPhones look cheap \u2013 but there\u2019s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/huawei-mate-x.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Apple has long been the undisputed profit king of the smartphone industry, taking by far the largest slice of the total profit pie. Indeed, at one point Apple was \u2013 by one admittedly eccentric measure \u2013 taking <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/11\/04\/apple-iphone-captures-103-6-of-smartphone-industry-profits-in-q3-according-to-analyst-estimates\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 100%<\/a> of the profits, when factoring in loss-making brands.<\/p>\n<p>iPhones have also consistently been the most expensive smartphones, discounting tacky bejewelled specials like <a href=\"http:\/\/vertu.com\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vertu<\/a>. Even when Samsung theoretically matched or exceeded Apple&#8217;s pricing for its flagships, its offerings were usually steeply discounted 2-3 months after launch.<\/p>\n<p>But all that is changing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/26\/iphone-pricing-3\/#more-581393\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/26\/iphone-pricing-3\/\">Comment: Latest Samsung and Huawei folding phones make iPhones look cheap \u2013 but there&#8217;s a catch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/huawei-mate-x.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/p>\n<p>Apple has long been the undisputed profit king of the smartphone industry, taking by far the largest slice of the total profit pie. Indeed, at one point Apple was &ndash; by one admittedly eccentric measure &ndash; taking <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/11\/04\/apple-iphone-captures-103-6-of-smartphone-industry-profits-in-q3-according-to-analyst-estimates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 100%<\/a> of the profits, when factoring in loss-making brands.<\/p>\n<p>iPhones have also consistently been the most expensive smartphones, discounting tacky bejewelled specials like <a href=\"http:\/\/vertu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vertu<\/a>. Even when Samsung theoretically matched or exceeded Apple&rsquo;s pricing for its flagships, its offerings were usually steeply discounted 2-3 months after launch.<\/p>\n<p>But all that is changing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/26\/iphone-pricing-3\/#more-581393\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/02\/26\/iphone-pricing-3\/\">Comment: Latest Samsung and Huawei folding phones make iPhones look cheap &ndash; but there&rsquo;s a catch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/26\/comment-latest-samsung-and-huawei-folding-phones-make-iphones-look-cheap-but-theres-a-catch\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-oeu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93155,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93154\/revisions\/93155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}