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Buying iPhone cycle

  • Every year

    Votes: 16 15.2%

  • 2 years

    Votes: 18 17.1%

  • 3 years

    Votes: 29 27.6%

  • 4+ Years

    Votes: 39 37.1%

  • Another brand..done w Apple

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • Total voters
    105
There are a few different ways to look at these types of numbers. The iPhone 13, for example, went down in price versus the comparable iPhone 12. The launch price of the 128GB iPhone 12 in 2020 was $879 which would be around $926 in 2021 dollars when the 128GB iPhone 13 launched at $829. Inflation adjusted, the 13 was nearly $100 less. This (at least comparing 12 to 13) more than made up for the previous loss of chargers and EarPods.
 
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They push the consumers edge with everything…ram, features etc… but prices keep going up, then when Samsung sees they are getting away with it, they jump on bandwagon too. It’s pure greed and these times it a slap to the consumers who put them where they are.
Latest iPad skip 128gb ram so you pay more than what you need…they have become greed personified
 
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jsmith1 said:
Apple still worse by far and airlines aren’t even close to them
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Au contre. Airlines will bleed you dry, spend like crazy then squeal to to government for huge bailouts before rinsing and repeating.

Big oil is making out like gangbusters while we pay the price.

Big pharma gets to buy a pre-existing life saving drug for pennies on the dollar, then hike up the price from a few bucks to several thousand a dose.
 
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jsmith1 said:
Apple still worse by far and airlines aren’t even close to them
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Here's a great big pharma example of pure greed.

Insulin is over 100 years old now. It's relatively cheap and easy to produce and most civilized countries have price caps on it.

Not so the USA. Prices here have gone for ~$20 a vial in the year 2000 to $340 in 2021 - over a 1,000% increase. To put this in numbers, assume a vial lasts a month, and there being ~2m insulin dependent Americans, that would have brought in $480m in the year 2000, and a shade under $8 billion in 2021. And that's just one single drug.

And the reason? Artificial limitation of availabilty. And that's it. The cost of production has hardly changed, and there's no research costs to recoup.

That is absolute pure profit taking.

You complain about stupid phone chargers and feel hard done to as a result.

Meanwhile people are dying because of this rampant greed.
 
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Whose has the highest percent of profit and most profit of any company in the world….Apple…I mean if you guys are that far gone that you don’t care and just hand it over, fine, my cycle is way longer now to combat their greed.
 
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Ethosik said:
No, because I already have the dozens of charging bricks around the house and I don't need 5 new ones a year when our entire family upgrades a year.
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Can you please send me some unwanted extras every year? Mine don’t last as long.

And I don’t upgrade nearly as much as you so apple’s policy makes poor sense to folk like me.
 
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Ethosik said:
No, because I already have the dozens of charging bricks around the house and I don't need 5 new ones a year when our entire family upgrades a year.
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Worse response ever and mostly the reason they get away with being so greedy….fine leave them out but CHARGE LESS…momo’s, then if you need one buy it, amazing how little perception there is today about money
 
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There is no doubt it was done for margin reasons. Why ship an adapter and EarPods when you can make customers buy them for $19 each?

It doesn't take a genius to figure out Apple could have offered redeemable vouchers if they wanted to benefit customers and the environment.
 
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jsmith1 said:
Whose has the highest percent of profit and most profit of any company in the world….Apple…I mean if you guys are that far gone that you don’t care and just hand it over, fine, my cycle is way longer now to combat their greed.
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Please provide a list of the top 5 companies in terms of "percent of profit" and the source for this list.

Right now I'm reading grumbling with no actual tangible comparisons.
 
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Worse response ever and mostly the reason they get away with being so greedy….fine leave them out but CHARGE LESS…momo’s, then if you need one buy it, amazing how little perception there is today about money
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You say that, but then you apparently feel that protesting at the expense of human life is a lesser evil than profiteering on luxery goods.
 
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jsmith1 said:
www.phonearena.com

Report claims Apple saved $6.5 billion by removing charger and EarPods from iPhone boxes

By one account, Apple saved over $6.5 billion by leaving the charging brick and the EarPods out of the iPhone box starting with iPhone 12.
www.phonearena.com www.phonearena.com


Has apple become the greediest company in history?
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You don't become a trillion dollar company by being a charity... But it's obvious that the decision for removing chargers were to cut cost, nothing to do with the environment. If it were for the environment, then Apple would've stopped making the chargers to be sold individually and just tell people to buy 3rd party multi port chargers. But no, they still make those chargers, individually wrapped and shipped. Talk about waste.
 
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jsmith1 said:
www.phonearena.com

Report claims Apple saved $6.5 billion by removing charger and EarPods from iPhone boxes

By one account, Apple saved over $6.5 billion by leaving the charging brick and the EarPods out of the iPhone box starting with iPhone 12.
www.phonearena.com www.phonearena.com


Has apple become the greediest company in history?
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They have also always been greedy, hence why their stock always "performs." They just know how to milk and dime their customers and after the iPhone became a commercial success, they have fine-tuned it to make it like a science...
 
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Taz Mangus said:
Vote with your wallet. That is the best way to show a company that you do not approve of what they are doing.

Are you here to just complain or are you going to do something about it.
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But for the lay consumer, the Apple brand is highly desirable. Most regular consumers buying Apple products is not just for the specifications, but partly for the brand. Similar to branded fashion, people buy them for the brand, not the utility.

In my country, Apple products are way marked up, but pre-orders for the iPhone 13 still sold out.

And some people already got ingrained within the ecosystem that to them, switching out can be more costly (time, rebuying apps, etc).
 
ian87w said:
But for the lay consumer, the Apple brand is highly desirable. Most regular consumers buying Apple products is not just for the specifications, but partly for the brand. Similar to branded fashion, people buy them for the brand, not the utility.

In my country, Apple products are way marked up, but pre-orders for the iPhone 13 still sold out.

And some people already got ingrained within the ecosystem that to them, switching out can be more costly (time, rebuying apps, etc).
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So then what is even the point of this thread? Is it to rally the troops to do what exactly? The OP thinks Apple is the greediest company in the world. So what exactly is the OP going to do about it?
 
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Taz Mangus said:
Vote with your wallet. That is the best way to show a company that you do not approve of what they are doing.

Are you here to just complain or are you going to do something about it.
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If you had taken time to read my posts, you would have seen where I said my cycle is much longer now to combat the greed…you do know what that means right?
 
ian87w said:
But for the lay consumer, the Apple brand is highly desirable. Most regular consumers buying Apple products is not just for the specifications, but partly for the brand. Similar to branded fashion, people buy them for the brand, not the utility.

In my country, Apple products are way marked up, but pre-orders for the iPhone 13 still sold out.

And some people already got ingrained within the ecosystem that to them, switching out can be more costly (time, rebuying apps, etc).
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MKing something desirable doesn’t make them less greedy only more greedy…wow I really misjudge that some would actually understand this thread bit so far the sheep have turned out only…

Say what you want but this is a very small snapshot of the overall picture I would dare to say most Apple consumers feel the same way but are buying longer cycles but the profit margin is so high they still are on top.
 
anshuvorty said:
They have also been greedy, hence why their stock always "performs." They just know how to milk and dime their customers and after the iPhone became a commercial success, they have fine-tuned it to make it like a science...
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You are right
 
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TiggrToo said:
Au contre. Airlines will bleed you dry, spend like crazy then squeal to to government for huge bailouts before rinsing and repeating.

Big oil is making out like gangbusters while we pay the price.

Big pharma gets to buy a pre-existing life saving drug for pennies on the dollar, then hike up the price from a few bucks to several thousand a dose.
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If you are searching for flights on a Mac you will largely get more expensive offers than on a PC as they reckon you have more money. Where you are viewing from too can vary price
Prices change if you check then go back. Prices change from one day to the next. From one hour to the next
They also over book about 5% for each flight in the anticipation that some people won't turn up then if it doesn't happen, bump a few people or put you in economy even though you've paid for business.
Some airlines have special charges like for 'priority boarding' or insurance. You can choose not to include them on the site but chances are it'll just kick you out and you'll have to start again
Trying to get to a page where you can actually buy tickets without them can be a real puzzle and most people just give up and pay.
Then you find when you get to the airport your hand baggage doesn't fit in the measuring bin. It does on the way out but mysteriously doesn't on the way back so you have to pay to put it in the hold.
Or, you book through a third party like Trip advisor and get a special deal only to find that you are only allowed one piece of luggage on the return and it was your fault for not checking the policy on the actual airline not the seller, so you are charged €80 to put it in the hold.
Anyone that thinks Apple are worse than airlines just doesn't fly.
 
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