"The British iPhone is better than the American one, so it is the most expensive" saying that merchants repeat to sell the device at a high price. The difference may reach a thousand Saudi riyals. If you try to argue with the seller, he will tell you that it is the best, and if you do not believe me, enter on Apple UK website And look at the price of the phone compared to the American store, for example, the 16-gig version has a price in the American store of $ 649, while in the English it is equivalent to $ 780 and the 64 gigabyte version in the US is $ 849. In the British, the price is $ 1091. This is the merchant’s argument, and other merchants may add that Britain is famous for one of the strongest quality standards ... Well let's discover the truth together.
Before we begin to explain the reason for the price difference, we must first get to know the mechanism of manufacturing Apple products in general and the iPhone in particular:
The iPhone since its inception in 2007 and it carries the slogan (The world is our factory), meaning that parts come from a large number of countries in the world And we presented an article 4 years ago talking about the sources of the iPhone disconnection Of course, some suppliers disagreed, but the same manufacturing idea is in force until now, and this is the main difference between Apple and the rest of the other companies, as Samsung phones are manufactured in Samsung factories, and Sony Ericsson phones are manufactured in its factories, and so on, Apple has a different philosophy, which is that there is a research laboratory for Apple in California that creates design For each piece, then Apple sends the companies to start manufacturing and gets the processor for their mobile devices from Samsung. For the screens, Samsung, LG and Sharp companies alternate contracts for the supply of screens for Apple mobile devices and computers, and so on. Then all factories from all over the world ship the parts to Apple factories in China, which are the ones that It assembles the phone, installs it, then distributes it around the world and from the intensity of pressure on Apple products, the company opened a new factory (for assembly also) in Brazil and began producing new 4 GB iPhone 8 devices and began supplying it to some countries.
Information: All Apple devices written on the back were collected in China and designed in California, USA. Do not say, like some, I searched for an iPhone and only found the Chinese one. There is a difference between what was designed by Apple and manufactured under the supervision of Apple and imitation devices that were entirely manufactured in China.
The trader relies on two deceptions
- the first Some companies such as Nokia manufacture some of its devices in its factories in China and other phones in its factories in the mother country, and the quality of these products actually varies sometimes, but this is not true in the case of Apple products, as we explained above.
- The second It is the high price of the phone in Britain, and this matter is due to the fact that taxes in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, are among the highest taxes in the world, so this makes products whose prices are more expensive than those in other countries, and not because the quality differs, it is the same product sold in China like America like Britain like Saudi Arabia .
That is, we say that the factories that manufacture internal phone parts are one and the assembly plant is dedicated to all world markets and not a specific market, so there is no difference between one device and another and everyone is of the same quality because it is from the same factory. Only the model number.
Now we come to the issue of the software, where some think that the phones of Arab countries come with Arabization and the phones that are in foreign countries come not Arabized, and this is also a mistake. Some Arab governments ordered to ban FaceTime, and this ban was previously based on the phone model number only, and now the ban has become with the phone model number and the network. For example, if you buy a device from Saudi Arabia, you will find FaceTime inactive in the Kingdom, but if you travel with the same device to Egypt and change the chip to an Egyptian chip, it will work and it is the same phone and without changing anything in it, and this is because Apple made the ban linked to the chip and not just the device.
In the end, do not be fooled when you buy Apple devices and pay an additional amount because the seller says that this device is British and its quality is better, or that this phone is Saudi and bad. All Apple products are the same in all the world and their quality is the same, and the software and operating system installed on them are one, you may want to get out of the issue of preventing FaceTime by purchasing a phone with the model number on it is not intended for the Middle East, but I know that the quality of manufacturing these devices does not differ and you should not pay more money, believing that the British iPhone is the best.
Don't let anyone fool you. And if they deceived you, do not worry, we will reveal their deception in episodes ...
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