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Android blows that crap away.

Not sure of the 7 pricing.

Their wage, one imagines.

Of which the workers get a cents, tops.

and see all the gleaming space and the shiny toys, the one thing that pops into my mind is, gee, the mark-ups on this stuff must be ginormous!

I do have priorities after all. And it does seem reasonable.

$999 spread over 24 monthly payments is $41.62. The iPhone 7 today sells for $32.08 a month. I think a lot of people will be able to reconcile spending $10 more a month.

It's slick and you know they are going to market the hell out of it. I've always bought the odd ones (3,5 and now 7). This is the first out of sequence model I am considering. Can't wait to see the reviews.

For a lot of people, and the up and coming generation especially, this is their PC.

It's a complete and total tool that they use for all aspects of their life. And it's one that gets a fair number of solid changes every couple of years so having it in a form that makes it easy to rotate out makes a lot of sense.

I grew up when a 600mb hard drive cost me $750 so I could run my WildCat! BBS. And it was totally worth it. I built PCs, bought off the shelf, and watched as everything got both more expensive and more powerful but also cheaper in context to the past.

It may sound insane to some but if you don't use it like others do then you don't see (or have value) in it. Others do.

But that's just me, I try to look at how various types of people use it and why it makes sense rather than just my own view.

phone is the pc for increasing numbers...

You can buy phones that are 90% of an Iphone for $225. That's why spending monthly for a phone is insane. 67% of millenials 25-34 have less than $1,000 in their checking account.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/23/heres-how-much-the-average-millennial-has-in-their-savings-account.html

how many of those have Iphones? A lot.

And they're paying for it monthly as part of the overall service. Again, you have to keep in mind that they're not using it just as a phone. It's their social network hub to keep in touch with friends around the country or world, they're using it for work, they're using it in place of TV, they're using it as a gaming system.

that sounded like an airplane taking off when spinning up.

I still think a phone that starts at $999 sounds expensive.

It is way more than a cell phone. You can still get basic phone only cell phones I think.

The device designers are working toward smaller, more powerful integrated technology. What we have today will seem like black and white TV in 50 years...

People who ONLY want to make calls or texts can buy one for like $30, I think.

Smart phones are a scam.

My kindle fire hdx was 129 bucks used and sports 2560 x 1600 resolution. The fire hdxs were the best tablets ever made.

But I find the kindle ecosystem to be ugly and difficult to use. I just have one of the regular recent kindles that I got for $35 but I find myself barely using it outside of reading a novel on it once in awhile. It's just not "friendly" from my perspective in use.

That's great that it works for you. But it doesn't for others and what they find works isn't the same for you. Why deride or call it a scam? Just different sets of needs. We're not a homogenous nation of 330 million people. We all work with different things.

I have a smartphone that I use for email, calendar reminders, music and a couple other things. I use the browser quite a bit. What I don't use it for is games and tv/movies, though I know a lot of people do.

I love my kindle and do virtually all my reading on it, I have an ever growing library that is always at my fingertips. It's pretty great having millions of books available via amazon, and the books always cost less than hardcover, HRCs new book is 15 bucks for example.

I only pay $35/mo on my service (1-line+ data) and this includes all taxes & fees and no cancellation fees.

People can spend their money anyway they want, but I dont know why people are willing to spend over $100 on their monthly cell phone bills (non family plans).

My phone works great. I'll keep it until it dies.

However, don't think of it as just a new phone.

Smartphones are not just a phone. It's my navigation system, camera, picture editing tool, work phone, work emails, personal phone, personal email, travel guide, flight status and boarding document system, weather report, social media platform, electronic hotel room key, payment system, web browser, and on and on and on.

The one thing I rarely use it for is actually making phone calls.

Is it worth $1000? Considering people used to spend well over that amount in the 80's/90's for different devices that do what this single device does, yes it is.

But now those are pretty much a few bucks if not places trying to pay you to take them!

Smartphones are have been around for awhile but are really amazing devices when you look back a couple of decades.

you're a damn fool and I have no sympathy for your circumstances.

Considering a lot of people use them as their sole "computer" these days, which means it's how they apply for jobs, coordinate interviews, get directions, manage their finances, and so forth.

But naw, they're all just damn fools.

there are many mid-level phones that do 90% of what the Iphone can do for less than $250.

And if you've been on iphones for a bit you've bought things through it that can't be transferred.

If you're using it solely as a mid-level phone and just a few apps, sure.

But if you've bought movies, TV shows, or have a lot of things built into your ecosystem through itunes, then you're not jumping off to something else. That was part of the plan to begin with anyway. Which is a choice that people have to make. Plus, if you're on a family plan, having everything the same type helps a lot just in managing things for your family since they may not be up on how to handle it.

There's a lot of factors as to why people pick and choose what they do. It's not just the $ cost of the unit itself.

I am an Android person, but I do admit I like the look at the phone.
However, the price tag and lack of a fingerprint scanner kills the phone for me. Most of my work app requires a fingerprint scanner to unlock and it will take months/years (if at all) to adopt the facial recognition within the app.

Also the lack of customization within Apple UI would take me a long time to adjust too and no on-screen back button.

In a few years....

No reason to spend that kind of money for more bells and whistles I don't need.

But remember, tech does eventually become obsolete. The tech firms want to shorten that cycle to grow revenues...

I did the each version upgrade through the 4th iteration for the mainline models. But after that I'm on the even numbered ones for upgrades since that's an average of two years and about when apps and tech changes enough that the phone becomes sluggish or out of date. And that means it gets retired to being a music player in the house or a remote control with apple TVs.

Price on this latest phone should go way down by then.

I tend to spend 3-4 years on an Iphone before replacing it. I'm still using the Iphone 5 that I bought in 2012. Maybe I'll grab the mid-cycle upgrade or get myself a nice christmas/birthday present later this year.

I'll buy it ... and enjoy it!

Which, as I understand, will come with the iGod 10.2 operating system, allowing one to create new universes and destroy civilizations at will. And it won't break if you drop it.

But if the X model floats your boat (and you can afford it), heck, go for it. It's a little outside my sphere of affordability right now, dual cameras and facial recognition or not. (I'm still not sure I trust a device that could testify against me in court.)

Someone wake me up when they develop a phone where i can speak to people in hologram form. I have a feeling I'll be waiting a long long time.

Would not be cool. LOL.

you're my only hope

Good lord I don't understand the need to tell people what they should do, disparage them for it, and then boast about your thriftiness. Who the fuck cares if you choose to use a different style of phone?

Guess what??? that 10 year old brick you are carrying around.... It was likely made with the same labor practices that this iphone uses and if the phone itself wasn't you can bet yer ass that many of the components and raw materials were built/mined on shitty labor practices. Oh and if i isnt' your phone that you've bought into it's almost every fucking thing else that you use or rely on in your daily life. Unless yer living off the grid, powering your own electricity to run some form of an organic computer that didn't contribute to any bad labor practice, didn't rely on a transportation method to arrive to the place you got it.... you are contributing to the problem. So just stop already.

Gadgets are fun for some of us.

I think that's also $999.

I've had bad luck with Apple products myself, and I'm afraid the new Samsung phones (S8 and S8+) and phablets (Note 8) with their curved screens might lose something in a really sturdy case?

I'll be going from an iPhone 4s (go ahead, laugh, it's still better than some of these complainers' flip phones to probably an iPhone 8.

I'm selling a brand new S6 edge + that I won online for $350, so it'll be a brand new phone for around $450-500 for me. I'm happy with that.

Would love to get the X, but I don't think I need one so advanced (expensive) at this point (except for bragging rights).