Comments by "Far Centrist" (@far_centrist) on "DeSantis warns Apple about potentially pulling Twitter from App store" video.

As long as apple products are considered luxury items, people would keep buying. To some people, owning an iphone is a symbol of status. And unfortunately, there are no competitor products which fill the same niche, so they have all the monopoly over it. The only thing that can hurt their sales is something like the current inflation crisis which hurts their sales quite a bit that they have to tone down production. And even if people in the US stopped buying, the people outside the US will since they have no political factor to boycott the product. The only way to hurt the company is through legal action. Also desantis comment on apple siding with the CPC is actually true, because the operation of iphone factory in china on which they are paying the employees peanuts, faces no legal issue because the CPC protects the operation.
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@bertraminc9412 not every single person has 2k USD lying around to buy iphone. You may debate about the reason someone bought an iphone, be it for it's status or for the simple reason that they liked it or simply too used to it to switch. But there is no debate that it is amongst the priciest phones on the market and people choose it for its exclusivity. Many that cant afford it would choose a cheap chinese android brand like xiaomi or realme which cost less than 20% of an iphone price but still has the same hardware capabilities, so the majority of people that buy it do choose it for it's status, because there are tons of alternatives that has better hardware and cost way less.
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@bertraminc9412 im sorry but it seems i replied to the wrong person. There's another commenter that says that iphone is not a "luxury products because everybody owns it" which is a weird statement because lots of people own ferrari or lambo but that does not make it any less of a luxury item. But he either deleted his comment, or it got hidden. I'm just pointing out that iphone pricing is what makes it a luxury item because there are many similar products that offer relatively similar or better capabilities in some aspects but cost way less.
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