ItalianLad

The marketing bit came across the wrong way, I meant it the other way arround. Still, due to there being a hell of a lot bigger margin of profit due to shear size of the market, it should cost, if anything, less. Yes, although there are phones that cost less than laptops, these seem more reasonably priced, that seems something hard to argue against. I made this blanket statement due to what interests me are higher end models not the more affordable ones. Even when you are paying for what the phones offer performance wise, when the background software has been standardized (Android or iOS), the performance aspect of it is bound to the components, so therefore, it doesn't make much sense.

Yet the same argument could be made for the amount of features that go into a Laptop with GPUs Cuda-Cores and all. I think that specially because the phones have a lot more power eficiente systems and less material due to it all being processed in one chip that it should cost a lot less, no? I mean, even if it was about the size of the components and the fact that they are spaced out in a way that makes manufacturing easier, that could have only been the case for the first few, but now that part has been nailed down to perfection to the point it would be easy to do so. if anything PCs have a much harder time in that regard with CPUs and GPUs nodes and VRMs giving a hell of a hard time to develop further.

I was just wondering, why do phones cost so much more than Laptops when clearly there isn't anywhere near the same amount of raw materials that is present in a Laptop/Desktop. Yeah, I get it, Marketing, Servicing and Shipping are all things that add up to the final cost of a product. but, Laptops and Desktops are things that cost a lot more to service and ship. Marketing is in fact a lot less costly for PCs. So why?