Production Profits Pointlessly Small
“Demand is high” is a meaningless marketing statement. The fact is every major element of the modern phone production line is geared to unibody devices.
From a manufacturing standpoint a flip phone is effectively two devices. They have to dedicate a line to produce half of a single device when the same line could be turning out complete devices instead.
That’s an expensive prospect and that can be seen in the high price.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
