joshuapants

An easy and plausible interpretation of my post is that I was concerned for the psyche of my fellow human being, and for the people he might be around. In the future please respond more civilly and substantively instead of dismissively.

Abortion doctors might not be innocent from the fundamentalist Christian's point of view.

> Well, if I had to choose between having my child die and letting a rich person keep their $5k bag, I might do the same.

Where on earth did you pull this dichotomy from?

> I don't know why the poor just don't kill the rich, to be honest

> I'd probably tear up the person with the bag

"I would literally murder a random innocent" is a bit different from what you suggest.

Not advocating the murder of innocents is burying my head in the sand? Fascinating.

Absolutely, I didn't mean to compare the relative merits, simply the costs.

They did that. And then those companies never updated the apps.

> the battery life is definitely comparable to the bigger brands

Sure, but the budget phone also isn't pushing a quad HD screen and a beefy processor. The runtime may be similar, but that doesn't mean the capacity is.

I did a quick straw poll by looking at some budget Android phones against some flagships and it seems like the budget batteries are about 1000mAh less than the flagships. In a bigger case. So, bulky and low capacity.

I'm surprised Google hasn't made a bigger push with Go on Android. It seems like there's some rudimentary support, so maybe it's on the way.

Because the price the store charges you is not the price the manufacturer charges the store.

> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP

On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low-end Lumias are almost uniformly better than Android devices in the same price range.

Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps.

Probably not even new old-stock iPhones, but actually used ones.

I wonder if e-cycling old high-end devices by refurbishing them and selling them to low-income markets isn't a better choice than ramping up manufacturing on necessarily crappy phones.

For $2.10, the battery certainly won't be state of the art. Probably bulky and low capacity.