If you could give us references to those studies it would be well appreciated.
Now, I'm not going to teach you a lesson, but "Why people would pay more for exclusivity" is a question in many of the nation's college textbooks. Economy 101. So, I'll just drop a few links.
Study: consumers willing to pay more for iPads than Android tablets | iPhone World's iNews Aggregator
Wealthy smartphone users more likely to own an iPhone, study finds
Five Reasons Why People Pay More | Alain Burrese
widiggums said:Apple like any corporation has a mandated fiduciary responsibility to its share holders to do everything possible to turn a profit. by making one phone that might sell 10,000 copies down from the millions sold now would be in violation of that. if there were to be a more expensive model i can understand that. but to sit there and actually infer that a person is superior or bound to some sort of higher up club simply because they have this or that device expecially an apple is mind boggling. you people do realize that the apple 2 e was basically the first main stream home computer going they were the 2000$ you seem to ask for now, owning one made you fortunate but not part of some exclusive club that brought out its shiny baubles to laud the less fortunate with. and lesser carrier wtf is that? if you dont sign a 2 year contract with unlimited calling and messaging and $100 a month for 10 gigs data you dont deserve to have an iphone? just the muckity mucks like you? tell ya what buddy there exists a $50000 phone done in gold , go buy one have apple modify it for your elitist azz with its own internals and ios system and leave the business thinking to real people who dont have dillusions of grandure or are living a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget!!!
At the same time it's not like the 16GB is going to be 2000, that would most likely be the 64GB on everything with the highest and best and all of the accessories. Most iPhone users would be looking at something a little more modest.
But it's true, I can't sit here and lie to you that I haven't been embarassed walking around with a non Apple phone or even other devices. I don't know what it is, but it's very easy to get elitist about Apple products, simply because the types of people who buy it are already that way. And Apple really does think they are the ****.
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