The iPhone XR Is NOT Depressing... (Response to Unbox Therapy)

The Art of Nailing Mid-Range Products: A Reflection on Apple's Latest Move

Apple has consistently demonstrated its ability to nail mid-range products, and this latest move is no exception. The company's decision to release the iPhone 10R at a lower price point than expected has been met with a mix of reactions from tech reviewers and enthusiasts alike. While some have praised the phone's features and performance, others have expressed disappointment and frustration.

One of the main points of contention is the display resolution. Apple has been accused of using a lower-resolution LCD display to differentiate the 10R from its more expensive counterparts. However, this criticism seems misplaced in the eyes of the reviewer. "The reason I'm angry about this is because there's not much reason for it except to distance the premium product from the discounted one," they argue. "In my opinion, so here we are, right back at it with the whole 'Apple ripping us off' thing."

This criticism is reminiscent of past criticisms leveled against Apple by tech reviewers and enthusiasts. Last year, a similar controversy surrounded the company's decision to release a cheaper iPhone model, which was seen as an attempt to appease consumers without sacrificing too much in terms of quality. However, this time around, Apple seems to have taken a different approach.

One notable difference is that this year, Apple has been more open and communicative with its community. The company has reached out to fans and influencers through various channels, including Twitter, and has even given away iPhones to some lucky winners. This level of engagement suggests that Apple is trying to be more inclusive and responsive to customer feedback.

Another positive development is the pricing strategy behind the 10R. While the phone's display resolution may not be the most impressive feature, its price point of $750 makes it an attractive option for those looking for a high-end device without breaking the bank. As the reviewer notes, "Seven hundred fifty dollars gets you one out of the three most powerful phones on the market." This is a significant advantage over other mid-range options available in the market.

However, some critics argue that Apple's decision to release the 10R at this price point was motivated by a desire to drive sales and increase revenue. According to Lou, who reviewed the phone, "They're trying to get you to buy the more expensive phone." However, this reasoning seems off-base, as the reviewer points out that Apple is not trying to differentiate the 10R from its premium counterparts but rather make it a more affordable option for consumers.

Ultimately, the review concludes that the average consumer will not be swayed by the debate over display resolution. "The consumer market as a whole is not isolated in your subscriber count," the reviewer notes. "The people in our comment sections are not the average consumer by a long shot." As such, it's essential to recognize that Apple's pricing strategy and product decisions are shaped by broader market trends and customer preferences.

In conclusion, while some may criticize Apple's decision to release the iPhone 10R at a lower price point than expected, the reviewer argues that this move demonstrates the company's willingness to listen to feedback and adapt its approach. By providing more affordable options for high-end devices, Apple is positioning itself to appeal to a broader range of consumers. Whether or not this strategy will ultimately succeed remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: Apple has once again demonstrated its ability to navigate the complexities of the mid-range market with ease.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso yesterday Lou from unbox therapy put out a video titled the iPhone 10 our is depressing so this is our response in this video I'm going to say not that get Deeley tech clothes in a way that doesn't suck hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode so what's going on guys welcome back to front page tech of course the show that gives you all these tech news from one geek just meets we notice that is you this is your second video of the day happy Thursday it's gonna do things a little bit differently for this show we're gonna jump into a couple of news stories as peruse and then I'm gonna give my opinion to lose opinion yeah okay let's do it alright so story numero uno of the days about Amazon they held a surprise Hardware event today and they announced a lot of things like way too many things too many things that I actually don't give a enough to like name all of them so we're gonna name some of them you ready let's go new echo dot echo Auto which is a portable device for taking Alexa on the streets then there's echo input that's for plugging into speakers that you already have second-generation echo plus an echo sub which is exactly what you think it is the second-generation echo show Alexa guard which is a home security thing oh and my favorite a microwave a kin microwave that's right to putting out an amazonbasics microwave it includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth the software on it is written and managed in Amazon that automatically and securely connects to an Amazon manage cloud service and it has Alexa Alexa in a microwave and it's 60 bucks ok I guess this would work out for like the normal everyday Amazon shoppers just regular people that are out there I don't listen I don't know I don't want I'm not gonna buy anything on this list how much was that microwave again hey so Samsung just announced a new device but the device is not the exciting part the exciting part is that they already announced the device let me explain so I don't know where Samsung announced the new Galaxy a7 which this series is like one of the bestsellers for Samsung so don't sleep on this like you all wonder why Samsung's market shares crazy it ain't the galaxy s 9 honey the a7 as usual is a mid-range Android phone from Sammy but the cool thing is even though it's mid-range it has a triple lens camera on the back now the exciting part is that this is now out of the way remember how Samsung is having an event next month that means that during that event it won't be about this as we talked about before October 11th Samsung is holding a quote-unquote surprise event where they're touting four times the fun so since it's not this right to not be a seven for that event we're looking at maybe the a nine and maybe that has four cameras and that's why it's four times the fun or it's the foldable phone it's not no even though I'm not gonna buy any of these I'm not interested at all I got to give credit where credit is due Samsung is like really good at nailing mid-range products and I think that's why they do so well this is no exception but now we can be excited for next month because it's not da7 okay now let's talk about this iPhone 10 R is depressing video we don't usually do like responses on this channel but I just feel like I got it this time now first of all I just want to say this is nothing against Lu we really respect him and love the style of unbox therapy so this isn't personal not going after Lu I just think he's wrong in the video he said that he's angry angry about this bump why because the weather lotion is not high enough because of course as you know the average consumer has nothing better to do with their day then - pixel feed according to Lou Apple must have used a lower resolution LCD display to distance the premium phone from the discounted one the reason I'm angry about this is because there's not much reason for it except to distance the premium product from the disk at one in my opinion so here we are we're right back at it with the whole apples ripping us off they're rigging the prices they're trying to get you because they know what the average consumer is stupid thing and it's not just Lou there's been a bunch of these videos made in the last week because as every year it literally never fails after an iPhone is announced making videos to directly in the mouth of Apple is all the rage the thing though that I have an issue with regarding all of this is that we did this last year we all made our videos and voiced our frustrations with Apple rightfully so I think we were all pretty frustrated as consumers as youtubers whatever us included we made a video - we made our voices heard and demanded that Apple take a different approach and they they did I mean last year and even more so this year they have been far more active in the community like even the YouTube tech community they're giving out phones through viewers Tim Cook is retweeting P it's crazy and they actually took the chance to meet us halfway even if it's not perfect we wanted a cheaper phone so Apple gave us a cheaper phone and as with any company they had to cut corners did they make the best decisions all the way around no of course not but by constantly bitching it makes it look like no matter what Apple does you're never gonna be pleased even when Apple does try something new like they did this year it's the same noise from all the same tech youtubers I mean we could hop on this trend right now to to get diffuse it works it worked for us last year and I thought about it for just a little tiny second I was like maybe I cessation but I I just can't this year at the very least we should give Apple credit for trying right I mean of course it's not gonna be the polka phone or like any other quote-unquote budget phones we're talking about companies that aren't even making a profit off of their freaking devices in countries with no copyright laws so all of the XI phones look like an iPhone anyway is 150 dollars a good amount of money yeah sure but it's not a thousand dollars money it's not fifteen hundred dollars money does seven hundred fifty dollars gets you a subpar display comparatively to other phones on the market yeah sure but seven hundred and fifty dollars also get you one out of the three most powerful phones on the market right now Lew mentioned that Apple did this on purpose to get you to buy the more expensive phone but listen that certainly doesn't seem to be apple's plan in fact they're counting on the 10r to outsell the other models this year oh yeah real sneaky all right bottom line the resolution is not the entire story here in the average consumer will not care tech youtubers listen you got to realize that the consumer market as a whole is not isolated in your subscriber count the people in our comment sections are not the average consumer by a long shot and that's why you just can't head to the comments section to validate your opinions and that's why while all the tech youtubers are bitching about this Apple's gonna sit back and sell a ton of these phones because it doesn't matter listen I'm an equal-opportunity giver over here I don't care if a company's up I'll call them out last year I was really hard on Apple in fact like at the beginning of this year I was pretty hard on Apple I've liked a total of like three decisions that they've made this year so go ahead and call me a sheep in the comments section because three things is a lot but you know there's also a word for people out there that will never be pleased and will hate on anything that is not made by the company that you love funny enough that word is also a sheepso yesterday Lou from unbox therapy put out a video titled the iPhone 10 our is depressing so this is our response in this video I'm going to say not that get Deeley tech clothes in a way that doesn't suck hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next episode so what's going on guys welcome back to front page tech of course the show that gives you all these tech news from one geek just meets we notice that is you this is your second video of the day happy Thursday it's gonna do things a little bit differently for this show we're gonna jump into a couple of news stories as peruse and then I'm gonna give my opinion to lose opinion yeah okay let's do it alright so story numero uno of the days about Amazon they held a surprise Hardware event today and they announced a lot of things like way too many things too many things that I actually don't give a enough to like name all of them so we're gonna name some of them you ready let's go new echo dot echo Auto which is a portable device for taking Alexa on the streets then there's echo input that's for plugging into speakers that you already have second-generation echo plus an echo sub which is exactly what you think it is the second-generation echo show Alexa guard which is a home security thing oh and my favorite a microwave a kin microwave that's right to putting out an amazonbasics microwave it includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth the software on it is written and managed in Amazon that automatically and securely connects to an Amazon manage cloud service and it has Alexa Alexa in a microwave and it's 60 bucks ok I guess this would work out for like the normal everyday Amazon shoppers just regular people that are out there I don't listen I don't know I don't want I'm not gonna buy anything on this list how much was that microwave again hey so Samsung just announced a new device but the device is not the exciting part the exciting part is that they already announced the device let me explain so I don't know where Samsung announced the new Galaxy a7 which this series is like one of the bestsellers for Samsung so don't sleep on this like you all wonder why Samsung's market shares crazy it ain't the galaxy s 9 honey the a7 as usual is a mid-range Android phone from Sammy but the cool thing is even though it's mid-range it has a triple lens camera on the back now the exciting part is that this is now out of the way remember how Samsung is having an event next month that means that during that event it won't be about this as we talked about before October 11th Samsung is holding a quote-unquote surprise event where they're touting four times the fun so since it's not this right to not be a seven for that event we're looking at maybe the a nine and maybe that has four cameras and that's why it's four times the fun or it's the foldable phone it's not no even though I'm not gonna buy any of these I'm not interested at all I got to give credit where credit is due Samsung is like really good at nailing mid-range products and I think that's why they do so well this is no exception but now we can be excited for next month because it's not da7 okay now let's talk about this iPhone 10 R is depressing video we don't usually do like responses on this channel but I just feel like I got it this time now first of all I just want to say this is nothing against Lu we really respect him and love the style of unbox therapy so this isn't personal not going after Lu I just think he's wrong in the video he said that he's angry angry about this bump why because the weather lotion is not high enough because of course as you know the average consumer has nothing better to do with their day then - pixel feed according to Lou Apple must have used a lower resolution LCD display to distance the premium phone from the discounted one the reason I'm angry about this is because there's not much reason for it except to distance the premium product from the disk at one in my opinion so here we are we're right back at it with the whole apples ripping us off they're rigging the prices they're trying to get you because they know what the average consumer is stupid thing and it's not just Lou there's been a bunch of these videos made in the last week because as every year it literally never fails after an iPhone is announced making videos to directly in the mouth of Apple is all the rage the thing though that I have an issue with regarding all of this is that we did this last year we all made our videos and voiced our frustrations with Apple rightfully so I think we were all pretty frustrated as consumers as youtubers whatever us included we made a video - we made our voices heard and demanded that Apple take a different approach and they they did I mean last year and even more so this year they have been far more active in the community like even the YouTube tech community they're giving out phones through viewers Tim Cook is retweeting P it's crazy and they actually took the chance to meet us halfway even if it's not perfect we wanted a cheaper phone so Apple gave us a cheaper phone and as with any company they had to cut corners did they make the best decisions all the way around no of course not but by constantly bitching it makes it look like no matter what Apple does you're never gonna be pleased even when Apple does try something new like they did this year it's the same noise from all the same tech youtubers I mean we could hop on this trend right now to to get diffuse it works it worked for us last year and I thought about it for just a little tiny second I was like maybe I cessation but I I just can't this year at the very least we should give Apple credit for trying right I mean of course it's not gonna be the polka phone or like any other quote-unquote budget phones we're talking about companies that aren't even making a profit off of their freaking devices in countries with no copyright laws so all of the XI phones look like an iPhone anyway is 150 dollars a good amount of money yeah sure but it's not a thousand dollars money it's not fifteen hundred dollars money does seven hundred fifty dollars gets you a subpar display comparatively to other phones on the market yeah sure but seven hundred and fifty dollars also get you one out of the three most powerful phones on the market right now Lew mentioned that Apple did this on purpose to get you to buy the more expensive phone but listen that certainly doesn't seem to be apple's plan in fact they're counting on the 10r to outsell the other models this year oh yeah real sneaky all right bottom line the resolution is not the entire story here in the average consumer will not care tech youtubers listen you got to realize that the consumer market as a whole is not isolated in your subscriber count the people in our comment sections are not the average consumer by a long shot and that's why you just can't head to the comments section to validate your opinions and that's why while all the tech youtubers are bitching about this Apple's gonna sit back and sell a ton of these phones because it doesn't matter listen I'm an equal-opportunity giver over here I don't care if a company's up I'll call them out last year I was really hard on Apple in fact like at the beginning of this year I was pretty hard on Apple I've liked a total of like three decisions that they've made this year so go ahead and call me a sheep in the comments section because three things is a lot but you know there's also a word for people out there that will never be pleased and will hate on anything that is not made by the company that you love funny enough that word is also a sheep\n"