“Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has performed a simple experiment that says a lot about the comparative value of Apple and Android smartphones,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Since April, he (or his team) has been monitoring the resale prices of six devices on eBay and China’s Taobao Marketplace — three iPhones and three Samsung smartphones running on Google’s Android platform,” P.E.D. reports. “In three months, the prices for Samsung’s Android phones fell anywhere from 14.4% to 35.5%. On the Apple side of the chart, the only iPhone to lose anywhere near that much value was the iPhone 4S in China. The price of the iPhone 4 actually increased during the three-month period, up 1.4% in China and 10.3% in the U.S.”
P.E.D. reports, “‘We believe this data tells us two things,’ Munster wrote in a note to clients Wednesday.”
Read more in the full article here.