There's a lot of tech packed in these devices. I think prices will continue to rise, but our desire to upgrade annually will diminish. We'll treat like as we do laptops and just upgrade once our device is no longer supported / no longer performs well.
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Other When will you stop? Are you okay paying 2000€ for a phone?
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Agree - and this is what I intend to do now.
I will stick with my 13PM until Apple release a handset with enough change for it to feel like an upgrade. Every year I upgrade and after setup etc I get the 'meh' feeling, as though it's just more of the same. The update to iOS16 should make my phone feel new all over again for now!
With my laptop I moved across to Apple Silicon with a M1 Max, and now a M2 as my portable machine - both will keep me going for many years, until there is a next big leap, or until I'm forced to upgrade......
I paid £499 cash for my brand new iPhone 4. Oh how times have changed.
You're getting angry/defensive responses because your original question wasn't completely objective. Rather than simply asking the question, "what is your upper limit", which would have been an interesting topic to get a sense of the demand curve for the iPhone, you started injecting your thoughts about what price YOU think is too much for an iPhone and about how people who keep buying these phones "Must be rich people". So of course people will get defensive, as everyone's circumstances is different.
You don’t get it for zero. You traded in your old phone and now have to deal with bill credits.
are you by any chance single looking to marry a greek guy ? btw which state you in , i would totally move there for these kind of offers.
Exactly. Some people never factor in the phone they trade is having any value and claim they got the new phone for free.
I used to buy an iPad every year but stopped after buying the 2018 iPad Pro 12.9. I miss the days when a new mid range iPad w/ cellular was $730. Now it’s double that. Add in the stagnation in software and OS and I might not even replace it when it dies and go back to Mac only. For iPhones I do the payment plans so it’s about $20 more per month now. This might be that last time I yearly upgrade.
Well, you dont understand, when will YOU stop, paying for expensive, wine, clothes, energy, Graphic cards, Cars, gifts, rent, and other stuff.
Are you working ? i hope so, so you get payed. Well then some day will come a guy called Sensamic to your boss and tells him when he will stop paying you so much for the work you are doing.
Its the same as you are doing.
"Why do i have to pay for a Ferrari, Lamborginy, Aston Martin, etc. so much when it has the same 4 wheels, as a Ford, or a VolksWagen"
Yes, this is getting out of hand, the prices should be low cause they are similar to the 13 series, and only a few features have been added!
Or what you can justify in your head. I know a genuinely mega-wealthy guy who drives an old basic car, wears charity shop clothes, a cheap mall watch and has a very old low tier Samsung mobile. He could afford all the trappings of wealth believe me.
Or the other thing many of us do (again I am in US, so prices are a bit different), is that we may buy the phone at full price, but we sell our previous phone so the out of pocket cost for the new one may not be all that much. Add that to any carrier incentives- my carrier often has a $300 off deal when buying the next model- it may be a very minimal cost when all is said and done.
I bought this one with 256 GB precisely to last me two years. But since some trade in programs practically give you the phone for free then I don’t know. It would be dumb to not trade in every year because if you try to do it next year then you will have to pay up.
People seem to gloss over the fact that you're not buying a phone. You're buying a miniaturized computer with it's primary function is to be a phone/communication device. But for all intents and purposes it's a mini-laptop practically as far as computing power and all the functions it's capable of.
Yes. I buy my phones without carrier and then I just get a prepaid plan that costs me like 10 dollars a month. So in two years I’ve only spent 240 + 1,000 for the phone = 1240 instead of the 70 dollars a month that would cost me 840 a year or 1,680 every two years.
It's expensive, but then it is also the device I use every day for everything.
The rate at which I update has been changing, from every year, to every two years and now a four year gap. I could easily have gone six years, but the camera upgrade is something I've wanted for a while.
Maybe this one will last me six years.
The rate at which I update has been changing, from every year, to every two years and now a four year gap. I could easily have gone six years, but the camera upgrade is something I've wanted for a while.
Maybe this one will last me six years.