Indisputable: Kevin Conroy in BtAS (NOT The Adventures of Batman & Robin or whatever, the art direction really dropped off then). The most human Batman there was.

I know everyone will post BTAS as the best Batman (it is)...but I want to post the best non-Bruce Batman

Right? Like it’s a even a real debate.

Kevin Conroy is the best Batman. End of discussion

We all know where this is going, best to get it out of the way now:

As a galaxy note8 owner, (I’m actually responding on it right now lol), I purchased it because I genuinely use the S Pen semi-regularly and enjoy watching media and playing games on my phone. This means my options are the s8+ for media but no S Pen and no dual camera, the note7 rerelease with less screen for media and…

Seriously have you seen Apples banks balance, I think about 16 billion and maybe over 100 more in Investments. As long as there are idiots that pay 1k for phones smart folks will sell them

Simple economics would say that each phone manufacturer would try to push their supply chain cheaper and their margins thinner in order to produce a more affordable phone for the masses. This undercuts competition.

Just think about all the tech in the device, and the size of the device, and it’s probably easier to understand. In the case of phones like the Galaxy S8 and iPhone X, we’re talking bleeding edge screen tech, camera tech, face recognition (X, lesser extent S8), fingerprint reader (S8), the internals of a decent to…

Prices are set according to what the market will bear. That’s it. It won’t go below production costs, but beyond that, it’s entirely about what customers are willing to pay so that you can maximize profits. That’s the ugly, dry answer to any “why does this cost that much” question.

For the same reasons that cars, computers, houses, coffee makers, appliances or anything has ranges of prices. Some of it is definitely going to be content, options, quality and performance; but a lot of it has to do with image, design, cache and what they can get away with.

Its real simple. OLED screens are expensive and they are only being manufactured by Samsung. I read somewhere that its $140 per screen while the LCD screens were about $50

I was actually watching a decent video explaining a few reasons. Tl;dr of it:

It’s really marketing budget and design. Apple spends a lot of time on marketing and design (mainly their iOS). The products themselves aren’t groundbreaking stuff, but it works... it works well and when it doesn’t work well you can go to the Genius bar for free (depending on where you live) to get some help or get…

1. Apparently there is a memory and display shortage at the moment. Analysts are estimating that the X will have a lower margin than the 8. I can’t comment on how accurate this is.

My very uneducated answer would be: it’s expensive to research & develop and market a product. Without these $1000 phones (and people who buy them) there wouldn’t be $300 flagships. It’s because companies like Apple & Samsung spend millions in R&D and marketing that other companies can sell products at a lower prices…

It’s a midgrade laptop shrunk enough to fit in a phone.

Simple answer - because people are willing to pay that much.

I mean, these are basically mobile computers, at this point. PC and laptop sales have been on the decline because more and more consumers are using their phones as their primary device.

Phones have always been amazingly expensive. A flagship smartphone is essentially a shrunken laptop with one or two ports. For example its being shown from CPU tests that the A11 chip in the iPhone8/8+/X is as fast as the Intel i5 CPU in the current 13" Macbook Pro. Even more amazing the A11 chip is even faster in…