Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
by brianwawok on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:06PM
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Who is buying a new iPhone every year and trashing the old one?
A $1000 iPhone you use 3 years is $333 a year. What is that, one days work as a developer?
Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
by shaklee3 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @11:19PM
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A lot of people given that the major carriers have upgrade plans to trade in for the new one after one year.
Or a month salary in less fortunate regions.
Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
by brianwawok on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:38AM
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Yah so you probably shouldn't spend $1000 on a phone if your yearly income is < $100k
Re:Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
by graeme on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:34PM
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That device won't have security updates. So you just dismessed a major part of OP's reasoning: they don't want an insecure phone and don't want to hand one off to their kids.
Maybe that's what you meant by important?
Most parts of Android can now be updated via the app store. So security is now a big issue anymore since Android 7
I bought a $100 Motorola and plan to keep it until the battery isn't charging anymore. So if I can keep it for 5 years I think $20 per year is reasonable.
Comparing this to the iPhone it will save me $980 a year. That's a nice holiday with my family...