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Apple Promotion Boosts iPhone Trade-In Values for a Limited Time
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Apple really should rethink their iPhone release strategy. There is no excitement for yearly phone updates as most of the updates are iterative. IMO, they should consider going back to “S” model iPhones every other year. Essentially an “S” would be a spec bump with bigger changes introduced every other year. This would help build excitement and anticipation for the non-”S” years.
In the meantime, I’m sticking with my iPhone 13 Pro Max for at least 1 more year. The battery is still pretty good and I feel no need to upgrade to a newer model.
In the meantime, I’m sticking with my iPhone 13 Pro Max for at least 1 more year. The battery is still pretty good and I feel no need to upgrade to a newer model.
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I agree
It's like they've leaned too hard on "well, everyone NEEDS our iPhone anyways, so we can just do barely anything and keep charging more and more"
Apple has turned this into basically a rent seeking operation at this point
Not sure if $10 is going to convince anyone to upgrade. Perhaps "taxes on us", or "first payment on us" kind of a deal ... that might have a more positive result than just $10, heck Five Guys charges that for large fries in my area 
"Promotion" .. not "ProMotion"
As in: promotion = "activities to advertise something"
I'm pretty sure these "boosted" values are just the values from like a month or so ago that they then lowered. I have a 13 mini that I was looking to trade in and it was valued at $300 around that time, then dropped to $270. Now, it's back up to $300 again. So amazing. Certainly doesn't seem like enough to make anyone who wasn't already going to trade their phone in to jump on this "great" deal.
Certainly doesn't seem like enough to make anyone who wasn't already going to trade their phone in to jump on this "great" deal.My pristine condition iPhone 13 Pro with 512GB storage that cost $1100 + tax will get me, at best, $380?! And Apple happily still sells this model for $900 brand new.
This is exactly the reason why I never trade in my old iPhones (I upgrade every 4-5 generations)...I can save the iPhone and either a)have it as an excellent non-phone-calling device or b)give it to a family member for free and save them $500+ on some Apple iPhone that they can't afford.
This is exactly the reason why I never trade in my old iPhones (I upgrade every 4-5 generations)...I can save the iPhone and either a)have it as an excellent non-phone-calling device or b)give it to a family member for free and save them $500+ on some Apple iPhone that they can't afford.
Ohhh. A whopping $10 extra! Really changing my mind about running out and spending $1,200.
Your telling that if I trade in my kids phones now, I can get 10 extra dollars?!? That’s almost the cost of gas to get to the Apple Store, trade in both and I can make it back. What a great time to be alive.
I thought the whole idea of marketing stuff was to create a feeling of urgency, an undeniable "call to action".
This is, at best, a pat with an index finger on the back of those who had already decided to hand their iPhone in to Apple.
This seems especially stingy seeing that Apple is slashing iPhones 15 prices in China right now by some 20%.
What did U.S. customers do to Apple, already buy enough iPhones for 2024?
This definitely didn't warrant any "limited time" deal. This is just regular adjusting of trade-in values.
This is, at best, a pat with an index finger on the back of those who had already decided to hand their iPhone in to Apple.
This seems especially stingy seeing that Apple is slashing iPhones 15 prices in China right now by some 20%.
What did U.S. customers do to Apple, already buy enough iPhones for 2024?
This definitely didn't warrant any "limited time" deal. This is just regular adjusting of trade-in values.
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THIS. makes my eye twitch whenever i read that.
it should be "apple is" or "the people at apple are". subject-verb agreement is not that hard, y'all.
Apparently it can go either way. I guess it depends in this case whether it's official Apple policy or if individual employees are doing it.
That extra $10 is certainly going to push a lot of folks into making a $1600 a mid-cycle upgrade (1TB iPhone 15 Pro Max).
I'm in the same boat as you and many others with my iPhone 13 Pro.
Still as fast as it was the day I got it, durable, great camera, and still lasts pretty much all day on the original (degraded) battery.
Absent some serious innovation in the future, I think we've entered the "only upgrade when it stops working" era of phones.
I'm in the same boat as you and many others with my iPhone 13 Pro.
Still as fast as it was the day I got it, durable, great camera, and still lasts pretty much all day on the original (degraded) battery.
Absent some serious innovation in the future, I think we've entered the "only upgrade when it stops working" era of phones.
I've always laughed at trade-ins, like who the heck would trade in a phone they could easily sell for a couple hundred bucks more? At least here in Europe, in some countries, we don't have Apple, but something called "Authorized Resellers", anyway, one of them offered me 300 Eur for my iPhone 13 Pro whereas I could easily sell it for 500 Eur.
100%.
What do we really need a newer, faster chip for? Most of us have settled into a routine with our phones. We aren’t obsessively trying new apps every day, nor are we pushing our phones that hard with the apps we use regularly. How much better can the cameras really get that I feel I NEED to get the next phone? Even with some new innovation, what more can Apple do with the iPhone?
The unfortunate part here is that Apple has a large say in "when it stops working" (effectively .. via OS bloat and straight cutting off software support)
My 4" SE1's could still work just fine today if they didn't keep cramming stuff into iOS
The SE1 I have on iOS 10 is just blazing fast at doing things ... iOS has become a bloated pig
Same here. I might upgrade my 13 Pro Max in the fall since I can use it as a tax write-off. If this was a $75-$100 increase I probably would have jumped on a 15 Pro Max, but I didn't even think about it for an extra $10. What a joke. Even more so since they had the balls to call this a "promotion."