Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by satya71 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:13PM (#18358505)

Also, I factor my phone purchases as a per year cost. Apple is still supporting the iPhone 5s. I only have to replace Apple devices every 5 years. At that rate it's about $250 per year, which is better than any high end Android phone. Privacy is the main reason I get iOS devices, but the price is not bad.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by throwaway427 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:52PM (#18358821)

Yup, I'll have had my 6S Plus for 3 years in December. With a new battery and the new OS it's still a very high end experience. 6S Plus was when they added optical image stabilization, so the camera is still pretty good too. Cost $1k brand new then and I'll probably drop the same $$ or more for a maxed out iPhone whatever in Dec 2019.

If only their laptops were this high quality.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by Moto7451 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:11PM (#18358939)

I'm still working (happily) from my maxed out 2012 11" Air. I put a new battery in it earlier this year and upgraded the SSD last year. You can definitely get longevity out of the laptops. My work undulates between email, text editors, Perl, C#, and whatever I do while SSH'ed into servers. None of that requires much in the way of CPU. Maybe if I was an iOS developer or did some other creative work I'd have a different opinion.

The new Air may be enough for me to upgrade (mostly for the Retina Display), but that's mostly because I can rather than because I need to.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by saagarjha on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:33PM (#18359071)

iPhone 6 Plus had optical image stabilization.

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Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results by throwaway427 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:57PM (#18359576)

I stand corrected.

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