Eli5: how did we get to the point where laptops and phones are in the same price range ?
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They aren’t. Some phones are the same as some laptops, but across the full range of both, phones are still pretty significantly cheaper than laptops.
The cheapest phones, even smartphones, are easily only $100 if not cheaper, and they max out at around $1500 or so. You can have a pretty cheap laptop too, especially something like a chromebook that’s meant to mostly use web-based services, but they can get a LOT more expensive than $1500 (and way more customizeable).
If you want an easy comparison, look at Apple. The cheapest iPhone is currently $429 and the cheapest laptop is $999. The iPhone 14 Pros start at $999 and go up to $1599, while their higher end laptops (Macbook Pro 14″) starts at $1999 and you can max out an Apple laptop at over $6,000. The cheap laptop is the same as the mid-range iPhone, but the cheap phone is not even close to the nice-ish laptop, never mind the max. And yes, Apple prices are high, but the iPhone is still the most popular phone in the world, so it makes sense to compare them, especially when the same brand also makes laptops.
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