87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by Conan_Kudo on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:12PM (#33183322)

It's pretty luxury nowadays. Decent smartphones go for less than half that cost, and good ones can be even cheaper. The accessibility and affordability of high quality mobile computing devices has risen across the board.

But Apple is very much on the upper mid range to high end side of things.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by Gigachad on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:13PM (#33183340)

You can get older iPhones for almost free. And they work fully with iMessage

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by leetrout on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:21PM (#33183476)

Locally? Or is there a reputable place online?

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by est31 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:46PM (#33183925)

I've bought an used SE 2 from refurbed, but it's not available in the USA. There are competitors which do deliver to the USA, e.g. refurb.me: https://www.refurb.me/refurbished/iphone/iphone-se-2

It's its own entire market. Generally I would suggest looking for bigger companies and ones which have policies to replace batteries if they are below a certain health level.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by bombcar on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:02PM (#33184164)

Best Buy has some: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-pre-owned-iphone-8-64gb-u...

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