Oh Okay...

>>62415298
>t. apple

>this damage control

ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS

I could get a hooker, blow, and still have money to blow on a 5 star restaurant with that kind of money and I'm middle class.

>>62415298

I payed $575 for my s8, that is after tax.

>>62415298
If you say so, USA Today!

>>62415298
How can they even begin to justify making it cost this much. It should be like a smack in the face of the consumer.

>>62415298
i don't think it's that much. i'm on my iphone 6 for 3 years now and i can see the iphone x lasting me 3 more years. hell, i could hold onto my iphone 6 for another year with no problems.

1000 isn't too bad if you don't change your phone every year. i can still sell my iPhone 6 for 250 over craigslist so it would realistically only cost me 750 to upgrade.

>>62415705
Nigga my $300 Zenfone 2 is 2.5 years old and it runs with no lag and lasts all day on a single charge

Expensive phones are a meme

>>62415729
expensive is relative to what you can afford. 750 for a phone that lasts me 3 years isn't expensive to me.

>>62415781
It's a good way to waste money. Rich people don't stay rich by wasting money

>>62415781
It's expensive if you can get a phone that does everything your iphone does for less than half the price.
It's a luxury item for retards. ez pz.

I payed 43 dollars + shipping for my xiaomi note 4 and got a nikon p900 for 75 dollars its not a dslr camera but gets the job done.

Also my old Xperia z had the AR meme years ago

>>62415705
You're not the average Apple user.

The average Apple user upgrades when a new phone comes out. Next year there will be a better iPhone (probably more expensive too) and these people are looking ahead with dread.

>>62415705
>>62415834

Well, I'm like him, still on an iPhone 6 Plus, and I wouldn't pay that much. I draw the line when my phone costs more than my desktop.

>>62415813
If you can't afford to buy things with your money then you aren't rich

>>62415814
but it can't do everything other phones do, i like ios and im comfortable with it, i've tried android, i never liked it. if samsung releases a phone with ios i'd give it a shot but it ain't happening.

>>62415813
that's kind of a dick assumption to make. so rich people don't buy luxury cars? watches? properties? rich people don't buy things that depreciate in value? c'mon, don't be that guy.

>>62415872
If you waste your money then you may not be rich for long.

Look at most of the people who win Lotto

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>>62415892
>but it can't do everything other phones do, i like ios and im comfortable with it, i've tried android, i never liked it. if samsung releases a phone with ios i'd give it a shot but it ain't happening.
It can send messages, use the internet, install third party programs (apps), has a camera and a microphone. Everything else is just a gimmick and no gimimck is worth 1k sorry.

>>62415892
Rich people spend their money smartly, so even if they can afford the new AMG S Class they still get the 2 year old off lease diesel S class instead

>>62415960
Lol please give up already with your bullshit. How is spending 1/3 of my salary on a phone going to make me poor?

>>62415298
Seriously even paying 500$ for a fucking phone is too much. And that's double that

>>62415993
>How is spending 1/3 of my salary on a phone going to make me poor?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>62415298
>So cheap because it does everything!

But please also buy our ipad, macbook pro, mac pro, and apple tv for all of your computing needs!

>>62416004
i don't even go past 150-200$
there's no fucking point unless you're one of those normie addicts who plays like 10 different variations of angry birds and has them open all the time along with 3 more messaging apps and other shit

>>62415298
Most people won't buy it for $1k... they'll just pay $50 monthly... how can you not afford that...

>>62415298

You fags don't blink before spending $700 a video card or VR setup but go ballistic over a $1000 phone that plays games, has augmented reality, is more powerful than 6 Nintendo Switches and you use constantly all day long.
Seriously, get some perspective.

>>62415993
>1/3 of my salary
>on a FUCKING PHONE

every day we stray further from god's light...

>>62415973
okay that's your personal opinion and i'm okay with that. I think it's kind of worth it, im still thinking of upgrading, but i wouldn't mind with the nicer screen and the smoothness of ios.

>>62415982
okay dude if you say so, there's really not much i can say. i don't know how 'rich' people spend their money. i'm worth over a million and i spend my money on whatever i feel like.

>>62416051
Good goy, spend $30 extra a month for 36 months on that phone plan

>>62416051
you end up paying way more if you do shit like that and you're still spending > 1k on a fucking phone.

>>62415993
Bad spending habits are bad spending habits.

>>62416054
>A locked down spying device that plays terrible mobile games
Wow so worth a grand already!

>>62416058
>I'm not worth over a million
>I spend my money however I feel like
>like on the latest shiny iToy worth a third of my monthly salary
Wew lad

>>62416051
Applefags have to finance their phone like a car, lol

>>62416057
Why do you care so much about how others spend their own money?

>>62416058
yeh it's my opinion but it's also a fact
if having a nicer screen and the 'smoothness of ios' is worth $700 for you then alright.
you should come over to my home and I'll give you a smooth ice cream for $400. None like it, i swear.

>>62416095
you're grouping up the responses incorrectly, im not the 1/3salary guy.

>>62415298

It is overpriced for what it is. Apple is asking that much entirely on brand name. They have a killer profit margin on that phone. They make Nvidia and Intel envious by comparison.

Besides, the majority of iPhone are pay through cellular plan services over time.

>>62415298
I agree with him. Apple should charge $2000 for a phone that requires you to participate in your own surveillance.

TMobile will buy back my iPhone 6 for a $300 credit towards this $1000 phone.

$700 financed over 24month contract is like $29. Add tax and (((fees))), and it's still not that bad.

>/g/ is where emotion & dogma overrun logic

But yeah, tell me how I need to be rich and stupid to get good tech.

>>62416104
I don't care, but it's very amusing for me. All my friends and family are well-off but smart with their money. I have heard that people like you exist, but I don't get to see you fucks too often.

Thanks for contributing to our economy, I guess.

>>62416132
>financing a fucking phone
What a world we live in

ITT: kids being butthurt their parents won't buy the new iPhone for them

also you need to be 18 years old to post here

>>62416054
> You fags don't blink before spending $700 a video card or VR setup
Who? It's way over the top for most people.
> a $1000 phone that plays games
F2P button-mashing repetitive garbage.
> has augmented reality
Gimmick right now, they test it before releasing the glasses.
> is more powerful than 6 Nintendo Switches
So fucking what? There are no Nintendo tier games on it. It will be obsolete in 3 to 4 years, meanwhile Vita is better than ever.

>>62416132
>I need to be rich and stupid to get good tech.
that's the secret
It's not good tech, you're just getting ripped for standard tech.
you feel like it's good tech because you have what is called cognitive bias
>I payed 1k for this phone it must be amazing!

>>62416109
sorry i don't like ice cream enough to pay $400 for it. maybe if it was in my personal opinion and I was an ice cream connoisseur, 400 would be a steal.

this is getting ridiculous, I can't believe one phone can cause so much controversy for you guys.

This is how poor people stay poor

>>62416167
only a kid would spend that much money on a phone

> oops dropped 1k into a manhole
> oops someone stole my 1k phone better get another
> oops screen broke well good luck my dad is rich am i right?

>>62415298
Nigga, your standard Samshit costs over $1000 in Canada. Whenever they launch this shit up here you're gonna have to fuckin mortgage it.

>>62416160

Or I could outright pay the $700.
I'm upper middleclass, work as a software developer, and my gf makes even more than I do.
I own my home and have a manageable car payment.
Not everyone on /g/ is 16 and poor.

>>62416057
>A phone that is more powerful than half of the poorfags that browse this website's shitty toshiba sattelite.

It's like you fucking niggers have zero respect for engineering in general.

Tbh i get more envious when i see people get a crazy good deal on something than when they buy something overpriced.

>>62416177
It's not the phone, it's just funny how apple can charge whatever the hell they like and people still defend it.
Even worse.. they still buy it.

>>62416192
>standard samshit over $1000
I think you're confusing a standard phone with a flagship

>>62416089
>Muh spying device meme
>Literally was about to go to Supreme Court to battle for customer privacy

Lagdroid fags pls go

>>62415705
>drops phone

>>62416198
>upper middle class
And spending $700 on a phone when a $400 phone can do the exact same shit is how you won't stay upper middle class for long

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>>62416038
Dude the phone I have costed 250$ it's a jiayu s3 and I have it 2.5years its running 7.1.2 with no issues...
It's always and will always be about showing off the wealth for these guys.

>>62416199
>powerful
How many VMs are you running on your beefy $1000 phone?

>>62416051
Then a nigger steals it and you are paying a phone you don't have

>>62416229
>Why would so buy a $5000 synthesizer when a $200 Casio at Walmart can do the same thing????

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I am looking forward to this phone. Can you imagine how many of you cracker faggots are going to be robbed now? A phone that expensive is going to make beating robbing little white faggots all the more profitable.

>>62416221
Snowden documents show that apple was one of the most eager companies to sell your butt out.
They did that supreme court shit as a publicity move.

>>62416238
Jiayu was my first chinese phone brand. God do i miss it, i fucking loved it.

>>62416256
So you use Find My IPhone to find and kill him and take your phone back.

It's simple really.

>>62416209
because other people have different opinions then you? that maybe, just maybe, what you find appealing or of value, is not the same as other people?

it's as if I were vegan and complaining about how i can't understand how you meat eaters can pay good money to kill poor innocent animals for their flesh! the monstrosity!

>>62416191
Nope only kids, NEETs and people who dropped out of high school and work minimum wage thinks 1k is a lot of money

>>62416260
>comparing professional equipment to a personal cellphone

>inb4 "i-i'm a cell phone connoisseur!!!"
lmao get a life kiddo

>>62416260
>he thinks there's a huge difference between phones when everything's moving towards webapps

Unless you're a professional, why would you seriously spend that kind of money on a synth? Almost as bad as those audiophiles with their $10k headphones

>>62416271
yeah
something that expensive walking around won't be good news to anyone carrying it.

>>62416275
It's still alive...getting Oreo in a matter of days
Changed the battery and it's like new.

>>62416238
yeah, my 250$ Galaxy Grand from 2013 is running 7.1.2 as well
no problem whatsoever but whenever i feel like changing it i'm not spending more than 200 bucks, there's no point for me

i thought I was a major faggot for spending $300 on a oneplus 3t. Are people trolling me about spending $1000 for a 64gb phone? phuck me

>>62416283
The thing is that there is an objective measure.
The hardware isn't that good.

You are paying out the ass for 'design' and brand.
If you like that it's alright but don't blame me for laughing at you.

>>62416229

I have a phone now. I'm going to trade it in for $300. It was nice while I had it.
Tech gets better all the time. It's not free. I didn't need an Audi. I could've got the Prius or Corolla.
We all make decisions and live by them.
I also didn't slack off at school or work and now my time is valued by my employer. I could throw a rock and get interviewed by 6 other tech firms this week if I wanted to.
I do value money. I invest conservatively, but I am going to spend on shit that I like, once every 2yrs.

Honestly I thought Apple would have the gall to ask $1500 for this flagship phone.
I'm kind of relieved it's only $1k.

>>62416284
1k for a phone is a lot of money.
$100 for a pizza is a lot of money.
$1 for shit is a lot of money.
you get this ?

>>62416305
Exactly dude..if you got a nice community supporting and updating android for it..why would you want a new phone...just to do things like 2 secs faster?

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>>62416315
>he bought a glorified Jetta instead of a real luxury car
Have fun when those timing chain guides wear out in 100k kms and the shop needs to rip apart the entire fucking front end of the car to change them

>>62416315
Sure thing kiddo, and my dad works at Nintendo

>>62416352

>Audi

You're probably right. It's a Q5 btw.
Should've got the RX350, actually.

This is how much I have left each month after expenses.

I can afford it sure. But fuck apple they can lick my dirty sweaty post Irma taint!

Im taken offline for two days and this is the shit news I get.

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>>62416199
>a phone that is more powerful

Lost

>>62416314
that's only if you place value on the 'hardware'. I place value on the experience. i've tried android, the lag drove me insane. maybe that's changed now over the years but im happy with ios and i don't see a point in changing.

good hardware is time dependent the iphone X has the best benchmarks right now because it's the newest, and it'll lose eventually so 'hardware' is a meme, there is no best hardware that stands up to time.

alright dude, you are a pretty petty person if you are going to judge peoples characters based on what phone they like. you must be so fun to hang around with. do you talk shit about this way to friends if they don't like the same food as you?

I spent $150 on my last phone and I was displeased because I thought that was a pretty steep price.

Then again...if you make like 10k per month..fuck it you can buy shit you don't really need. Yeah

>>62416384

Please move to a better location. My federal taxes are tired of bailing you out.

>>62416051
Fuck that, I always buy outright because I can afford it and it's cheaper in the long-run

>>62416382
RX is the vastly superior CuckUV, I don't know why more crossover shoppers don't buy them

>>62415781
Don't get into debt for a fucking phone

>>62415615
I don't think the fact that you are middle class affects the price of hookers, cocaine, and five-star restaurants, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.

>>62416390
You say you like Ios but nothing is forcing you to pay 1k for a phone that can run IOS.

That is just not the case. You can buy an old Iphone6 Iphone7 and get pretty much the same shit.

I'm petty, but I respect people I deem worthy of respect.

>>62415298
now explain why its worth getting over a S8 which has more features, is cheaper, and has a better screen

>>62416390

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>>62415967
There are only so many ways to increase profits, when you have to raise prices because there is nothing else, it means you've hit the bottom of the growth barrel

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>>62416352
>tfw the newest GLI is just an Audi with a different front end
always brings a smile to my face when i see 2 of them at a red light

>>62416460
Has a shitty fruit logo so you can let everyone in the ghetto know you're rich

Haven't you ever noticed how all iPhone cases have a cutout for the logo?

>>62416390
>the iphone X has the best benchmarks right now
Those have already been called bullshit by experts. They chose a test that is blatantly biased and shows nothing in terms of real performance.

>>62416460
It's not an iPhone X.
"Better" is too subjective of a term in this current era of snapper phone.

>>62416390
>if they don't like the same food as you
To be fair, if I was eating lunch and some fucking paki sat across from me and started eating his rancid diarrhea curry in front of me, I would get pretty upset.

>>62415298
Yeah, the capabilities aren't that much for the price

>>62416491
oh really?
what is it about that post that ends the discussion?
the fact that the poster wants to spend $1000 fucking dollars for a shiny screen and an operating system that can run on cheaper phones?
Alright. sure </thread>
>tl;dr apple customers are dumb

>>62416456
i have a iphone 6, for the last 3 years. the battery isn't what it used to be and even now it's starting to lag with successive updates. i just don't see a problem if people want to drop 1k on a phone, it's their money and their personal preference. making broad assumptions about people based on something as trivial as a phone is just retarded to me.

well at least you admit you are petty, it's not a good thing dude, you should be more open minded about other peoples choices.

>>62416517
By that metric, "Worse" is also too subjective a term.

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>>62416527
>shit talking curry

>>62415705
That is true. The price is ~20$/month. Not that is worth it though.

>>62415298
my... I guess it isn't... I'll take 3

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>>62416544
>it's starting to lag with successive updates
All according to Apple's master plan

>>62416538

I mean this is all about personal choices.
You can dissect specs and costs all you want and it will always come down to consumer choices. It's not black & white. It's nothing to get worked up about, desu.

>>62416544
I 'respect' the choice as in I won't laugh in your face, but I sure as hell won't call you smart.

>>62416551

My iPhone 6 is proooobably worse than the iPhone X. I'll give you that.

Is it $800 worse? Subjective.

>>62416572
It's funny. People who waste money like that deserve what they get from apple.
Sure it's your choice if you go to a black neighborhood in the night dressed as a gayman and yell 'nignogs!!' at the top of your lungs.
We are just laughing at your life choices. :)

>still no headphone jack
And it's pointless

This is the first iPhone thread I've seen where people are generally courteous and willing to have dialogue with the other point of view.

>>62416405
or you could be saving all that cash so that you could retire at like 40

>>62415298
>$1000 for an iPhone isn't that much
Oh thank God! Guess I'm buying an iPhone now that it isn't that much

Imagine... You can buy two 55 inch 4k tv's for the price of a phone...

>>62416608

It would be wasteful if one was economically handicapped. I concede this. You have to be able to look at the big picture. ~200 million Americans are potential customers. 20 million of which will strongly consider buying a $1000 phone. 10 milllion have the cash burning a hole in their pocket right now.

Nevermind there are 100-200 million Chinese and Russians who will do the same.

>>62416690
It's depressing how many millions of people consider a phone that'll be obsolete in 2 years a luxury item

It's a personal computer

>>62416690
This iphone is a luxury item. We agree on that.
We disagree on whether it's worth it or not.
As a company apple is doing what's best for their interests. As customers I think apple's are just braindead.

I've had iPhone since the iPhone 2.
I've seen friends jump from blackberry to Nokia to Samsung, but they always regret the poor support from Android & Samsung.

There is a big advantage to have a single HW & SW manufacturer.

>>62416731
If you've had the misfortune of using an iphone or ipad as a personal computer then you know that calling them that is an insult to computers.
You have to work against the thing like 30% of the time.

>>62416764
Lol no you didn't, otherwise you'd know how awful those early iPhones were even after a single year thanks to Apple's "updates"
People who bought the original iPhone got burned the hardest

>>62416764
and i'm tim cuck's best friend.

guys how can I get financing for this phone? Im planning not to pay rent so I can get the IPhone X.

>>62416751

These devices are all instant depreciation toys. Unless you're an iOS developer who makes the next big thing, I don't see a ROI outside of momentary status and vanity for the tech horny.
I do know people who don't fit that mold and like tech but hang on to a phone for 3yrs (like me).

>>62416849

The Apple Upgrade program is 0%.
There's no reason not to do it.

>>62416851
Sure. We take pride in different things. I take pride in my potato phone.
It sends messages and recieves calls. It costs $5.
It's very old and it still works. It has no lag. I don't suspect it spies on me and no one wants to steal that crap.

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but can the iphone do this?

>>62416721
What’s depressing is people fuckin leasing a new iPhone every year. You shouldn’t even lease a car. My iPhone 6 plus runs the same as it did two years ago, there’s no need to buy a new one.

>>62416849
>its $40 a month from any carrier

>>62416875
Unless you have bad credit. I think they do checks and that’s probably the reason there’s chimp outs at my local Apple store.

>>62416058
>i'm worth over a million

rupees isnt a real currency faggot

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>>62416058
>worth 1 million
>thinks he's rich
Topkek

>>62415298
wtf! I love iPhones now!

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I thought people were already blowing close to (or even over) $1000 on new iPhones, especially with upgraded storage options and tax adding to the price.

Why is this new to literally anybody? Are you all fucking stupid? Just trying to jump on the meme bandwagon?

>>62416966
>there’s no need to buy a new one.
Sure there is, if you like the new shiny features.

It's not a fucking ThinkPad you can lug around for 10 years.

Anyone who buys an IPHONE X cannot support Bernie Sanders and complain about income inequality.

People who blow their money away on a $1000 mediocre smartphone can't complain that they are poor.

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>>62417672
Millennials are the poorest generation because they don't save. They forget that even the baby boomers didn't buy the best Analog Sony widescreens back in the 1980s.

As a kid, I remember only the most wealthy families had PPV and those ultra heavy widescreen Sony/Panasonics.

>>62415615
This
Economics is all out I wack these days
>can afford hookers and 5 star holidays
>can't even dream of affording a house or decent car

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>>62417742
Bernie Sanders pandered to legitimate retards by selling them the emperor's new clothes. Being retards they fell for it. Remember Frito in Idiocracy? That's unironically Bernouts.