Its not about how much it costs, its how much you make. For someone making 10x what I do its the same as choosing between $160 and $260 phone.
To quote my friend: "Things arent expensive, you are just poor"
And the Pro Max is supposed to be milking the most off its target class. They still make non-Pro, non-Max iPhones too.
And honestly I am a bit tired of people asking the same questions every time, now almost reduced to being rhetorical. Yes, iPhones are more expensive than most phones. Yes, people pay for it, for plethora of reasons. Every year since ~2010 called and want their question back.
Do you think that those buying more expensive thing earn more?
By this logic I need to reassess my life decisions, tech must not be paying me much, I’ve seen people serving tables with better phones than mine and had food delivered in Teslas
The most expensive iPhone is $1,599 (Largest model with 1TB of storage capacity.)
The rumour that they'd just inch another thousand on the total price is obviously not grounded in any sort of reality and clearly pays no attention to how apple have priced their devices in the past.
When you buy it on a contract and spread it out over 24 months, and you also get monthly allowance from your company on mobile usage. All of a sudden the phone isn't so expensive.
Of course that is dependent on living cost etc. Living in US New York would be very different to someone from say South East Asia.
It is a lot and I certainly won’t pay that much but I also understand a bit. That was a price I would pay for a pc many years ago, which was my primary entertainment device , and phones have become primary devices for many people. Add in tv/music/authentication/work/email/communication fairly long term support and ability to resell it with decent value I am not judging too harshly.
So will this one finally have USB-C charging port, allowing me to buy the phone without retrofitting my home/car/office/parents home with special charging cables just so I can charge my potential phone the same way I charge my current one?
Yes, this one might have a charging port that will require me to retrofit my home/car/office/parents home with special charging cables just so I can charge my potential phone in the same locations as my current one.
its not about $10 or about one-time chore. It's about having to always check if the cable you pulled up is this one or the other, where to place the adapter if I need to use the C, and so on. Having just C everywhere is convenient not because it's everywhere, but because there's nothing else.
And will we finally see a transfer rate higher than USB 2’s 480 Mbps? If we got 5 Gbps, I would finally be able to do local backups easily and effectively…
You will get 480 Mbps for the regular iPhone model. If you want to get the higher transfer rates afforded by USB-C, you have to upgrade to the pro model.
Surprisingly no one is taking about, A17. Normally there would be leaks about it. This actually lead me to believe all previous leaks were intentional as part of Apple's PR and media control.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 62.7 ms ] threadPeople spend that much on a phone ?
To quote my friend: "Things arent expensive, you are just poor"
And the Pro Max is supposed to be milking the most off its target class. They still make non-Pro, non-Max iPhones too.
And honestly I am a bit tired of people asking the same questions every time, now almost reduced to being rhetorical. Yes, iPhones are more expensive than most phones. Yes, people pay for it, for plethora of reasons. Every year since ~2010 called and want their question back.
By this logic I need to reassess my life decisions, tech must not be paying me much, I’ve seen people serving tables with better phones than mine and had food delivered in Teslas
On average? Yes.
Sure there always be some people qho are just irresponsible with their lot, but hardly we can blame Apple pricing of their absolute flagship.
The rumour that they'd just inch another thousand on the total price is obviously not grounded in any sort of reality and clearly pays no attention to how apple have priced their devices in the past.
Of course that is dependent on living cost etc. Living in US New York would be very different to someone from say South East Asia.
Are there no options in the smartphone market?
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