New IPhone likely to cost a staggering $1000 USD

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$1000 isn't a huge amount of money to me so I'll still get it, but I appreciate it'll be out of reach of a lot of people.

[bloodkin]

$1000 isn't a huge amount of money to me so I'll still get it, but I appreciate it'll be out of reach of a lot of people.

people like you are the type of consumer I'd expect to get such a phone, someone who can easily pay such a price for that kind of device, as it's an extremely expensive product of it's market and thus should be rare.

However, with rabid apple fans, I'm expecting that you're going to see this thing everywhere, and a lot of people who buy it can't actually afford it, but are fine with debt or staying in poverty.

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people like you are the type of consumer I'd expect to get such a phone, someone who can easily pay such a price for that kind of device, as it's an extremely expensive product of it's market and thus should be rare.

However, with rabid apple fans, I'm expecting that you're going to see this thing everywhere, and a lot of people who buy it can't actually afford it, but are fine with debt or staying in poverty.

I wouldn't encourage people getting into debt to buy a phone but you're right, people will regardless. I know you have to undergo a credit check (in the UK) to get a phone on a contract but I am dubious about how strict they are.

[solinari6]

However, with rabid apple fans, I'm expecting that you're going to see this thing everywhere, and a lot of people who buy it can't actually afford it, but are fine with debt or staying in poverty.

$1000 sounds like a lot, but I think most people will be buying it on an installment plan anyway. So instead of $30 a month, it'll be around $50. Not really a deal breaker for most people. Skip McD's once or twice a month and you can afford it.

[bloodkin]

$1000 sounds like a lot, but I think most people will be buying it on an installment plan anyway. So instead of $30 a month, it'll be around $50. Not really a deal breaker for most people. Skip McD's once or twice a month and you can afford it.

Even with those plans and subscriptions, you're still paying 1000 dollars/euro's or more. the iphone X is priced at 1159 euro's here, I'd never spend that kind of money on a device I'd use for less that 2 years.

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people like you are the type of consumer I'd expect to get such a phone, someone who can easily pay such a price for that kind of device, as it's an extremely expensive product of it's market and thus should be rare.

However, with rabid apple fans, I'm expecting that you're going to see this thing everywhere, and a lot of people who buy it can't actually afford it, but are fine with debt or staying in poverty.

That's pretty much it yeah. If you're rich (and you like Apple products) then whatever, go nuts, buy the damn thing. But there are many people who probably only earn about £1.5k a MONTH so this phone would pretty much be worth a 1 month wage for them. Those people will probably go on payment plans for this phone with the mobile company of their choice and end up spending far more than the phone's actual price - so instead of spending £1.1k in one go, they'll most likely end up spending almost 2 grand (and the fun part is that by the end, Apple will have released an even newer phone and the current one will be cheaper).

[Sorshen]

It's more expensive than expected, yeah. I'm also a bit disappointed that it won't be available for pre-order before the end of October. :|

I can get the S8+ for 695 here, what the fuck is Apple thinking, 'reputation' can only go so far. Also, the arrogance displayed in the presentation cracked me up.

[Planetdune]

Only once bought a Apple product (Iphone4S).. fool me once.. shame on you... but you will not fool me twice. I really disliked that phone but used it for many years as I had to justify the money spend.. Now I have a Lumia 650 and it is so much better.

[IIamaKing]

That's funny.
And by the way, also wrong.

No, it isnt, my wife has an app that is only on iOS that is why she returned her Not iPad to get an iPad.

[Deleted]

The presentation for the X felt like a copy & paste of the 8 with Face ID thrown in. If they bundled a year of Apple Music & iCloud storage (as rumoured) I might be persuaded but Face ID is not that important to me to justify the price.

Apple is shit. Buy an android.

Android has a shit OS and no quality control when it comes to third party apps.

[Puupi]

The Apple watch was cool, the phones are terribly overpriced.

The "Michael" dude did solid Oscar worthy performances on stage.

[Laqweeta]

If you have an iPhone 7 right now with a contract (USC, VZ, TM), you can trade your i7 in for an i8 for about a $200 cost. I'll be doing this today even though I've only had my i7 since March. Gotta keep up! :P


If you have credit this price is mute, why blame Apple for your poor choices in life? lmao

[Doctor Funkenstein]

No, but because it doesn't change the fact that I like it. *shrug*

Oh hell yeah, no one was doubting that you did! Totally worth the price, you groovy chick! You're going to be the hippest and coolest person on the planet once you buy that bad boy. Everyone's gonna be so jelly of it when they see you with it. They're gonna be all "whoa, she totally loves that thing, I wish I could love something as much as she loves that!" when they spot it across the way while you're eating your kale salad and craft beer served in a mason jar. Cause you're just that rad, baby, yeah.

[Tennis]

Fixed that for you.

Wrong! Most people with jobs don't buy a 1000$ phone.

[Seranthor]

Wrong! Most people with jobs don't buy a 1000$ phone.

And you base this declaration on what, exactly?

[schwarzkopf]

This still seems vague to me. In what way?

It isn't vague - it is in fact general, no part of the Android phones i had performed in any way reliably or consistently. Nothing worked at all... no exaggeration.

[HumbleDuck]

No, it isnt, my wife has an app that is only on iOS that is why she returned her Not iPad to get an iPad.

Let's assume it was an iPhone app ( as we are talking about phones here, there are other arguments as to why iPads are not the best in the market either) and let's assume there is no similar app on Android ( which would indeed be odd), you can run iOS on top of Android ( or even dual boot if you want to), iPhone doesn't give you such freedom.

[Ozzyorcborne]

Time to dust of my lawn chair and head down to the nearest apple store so i can troll the early adopters that are no doubt camping there already.

[corebit]

Let's assume it was an iPhone app ( as we are talking about phones here, there are other arguments as to why iPads are not the best in the market either) and let's assume there is no similar app on Android ( which would indeed be odd), you can run iOS on top of Android ( or even dual boot if you want to), iPhone doesn't give you such freedom.

Why do you want to run an OS on top of another OS that you have zero intention to use? If I use Windows 100% of the time, I am not going to bother to install Linux and then run Windows from Linux because reasons (or in your case, muh freedom).

[HumbleDuck]

Why do you want to run an OS on top of another OS that you have zero intention to use? If I use Windows 100% of the time, I am not going to bother to install Linux and then run Windows from Linux because reasons (or in your case, muh freedom).

Yea, we are not talking about people's ability (or desire or need) to use a system to its fullest, we are comparing features provided by two different operating systems.

PS. As I mentioned in my previous comment, you don't need to run iOS on top of Android, you can boot directly into iOS if you really want that.