Comment by jfkebwjsbx
5 years ago
The average customer is not paying 1000$ for getting "protection from those risks", and it is that customer that drives the price, not the average user in HN.
And that is assuming they are trying to "protect you", but that is a different discussion.
> they are trying to "protect you"
They certainly are trying to protect you but I am not naive to think it's out of the kindness of their corporate heart. It's because that's what many people want right now. Apple tried to compete with Google and Facebook at their own game, predictably lost, so changed the rules of the game. Which was a brilliant strategy and if next year they change their stance I will happily reconsider my opinion.
And people don't have to know explicitly every feature and how it's achieved technically. The phone is now almost a commodity, like toothpaste. You buy one because that manufacturer built a trust. You probably buy Colgate, Sensodyne, or OralB (Crest). But not because you carefully analyzed their chemical composition, or pored through study after study. You just trust one, a friend or dentist recommended it, it just works for you, and so on.
That protection the phone affords you may not be immediately apparent but enough people start noticing eventually even if they don't understand the underlying technical part.