It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia 363
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from the or-4.50-on-a-box-of-shells dept.
from the or-4.50-on-a-box-of-shells dept.
benfrog writes "According to market-share estimations compared to marketing dollars, it costs nearly ten times as much to sell the Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia as it does to buy one. Other analysts agree with the low sales numbers."
Re:Subsidized price (Score:5, Funny)
I've got a better idea. (Score:5, Funny)
How about they give me $400 directly and then I'll pay the $49 for the Lumia.
They've saved $50!
Re:I've got a better idea. (Score:5, Funny)
We lose money on every sale, but we'll make up for it in volume!
Re:I've got a better idea. (Score:5, Funny)
We lose money on every sale, but we'll make up for it in volume!
What volume? I think I've only seen a couple of Windows phones outside of a mobile phone store. One was owned by a Microsoft employee and the other 'won' it in a Microsoft developer conference.
Re:Subsidized price (Score:5, Funny)
122. If S60+M[ae]e[mG]o strategy was a "burning platform" ... This platform is RADIOACTIVE, ON FIRE, and EXPLODING, bitchez!
Elop stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled.
The flame that lit Nokia's wreck shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet horrible and grim he stood, as born to rule the storm;
A creature of demonic blood, a proud, though troll-like form.
The flames rolled on – he would not go without his Ballmer's word;
That Ballmer, in Redmond below, his voice no longer heard.
He called aloud "Say, Ballmer, say if yet my task is done?"
He knew not that the stock-price lay yet twice the buyout one.
(Okay, that last line descended to junior-high love-poem level of suck; I'll quit before it gets worse.)
Seriously, just how much farther can MS possibly need to ruin Nokia before they buy them out and give Elop his bonus?
Re:Subsidized price (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait
Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, Nokia haven't abandoned their other OSs. They're still selling Symbian, dumb and Linux phones.
Never end a completely uninformed argument with the facts. It's just not nice.
Re:I've got a better idea. (Score:4, Funny)
Wait for the next OS update, I hear they have modified the volume control to go up to 11.
Re:Unfortunately, Nokia has no Steve Jobs (Score:3, Funny)
Apple, Inc. did not need to "sell" their wares as much as their peers in other companies (like Nokia or RIM, for example)
RIM are actually selling phones?
Re:Subsidized price (Score:4, Funny)
a sane choice, considering typical French beer...
Re:Subsidized price (Score:5, Funny)
But apart from those 121 negative points, what did you think of it?