Monkey Fracas posted:I mean they'll eventually lose people if they keep this up or are people just terrified of switching to a different OS Apple sales have been lagging for a while now and they're having a lot of trouble breaking in to the lucrative China market.
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notZaar posted:Actually, they sold out yesterday. Meaningless without knowing how many they stocked in the first place. Either way the gif is funny 
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loquacius posted:ok not that this really needs a response apart from "lmfao" Remember when MS announced their Xbone and everyone was like 'wtf is this garbage' and they changed the product? Apple is just no we're brave.
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Serrath posted:Serious question, do American phone plans not offer steep discounts on iphones when you sign up for new contracts? I get a new phone every couple of years on my basic plan, I think I pay about $5 over the monthly cost of the plan for handset repayments and it comes with whatever phone happens to be the latest one. The iPhone release schedule seems to coincide with my contract expiring so I get a new phone every two years. And the $5 is because I wanted a plus instead of the basic phone. They do but it's more like $20-30/mo here for the brand new fancy phones and it isn't a "discount" so much as just financing and you end up paying more than the total retail value of the phone by the time your contract is up most of the time. Like T-Mobile is doing +$27.09/mo for 24 months for the iPhone 7, which ends up being what the retail cost is ($650) BUT you have to have great credit AND you have to be trading in an iPhone 6 or 6s (worth *at least* $100 if you sell it on your own) and they also tack a $20 one time fee just because gently caress you SIM card fee. So really it's just another punishment for those who NEED to have the latest crap but are too poor to buy it outright. Roylicious fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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I buy a decent phone and then I use it until the updates inevitably make it run like rear end and then I buy another one. Typically this is every 2 years or so. The only people I know who obsessively buy phones are either engineer nerds or people who are broke as hell and working some poo poo job and trying to look flashy. One of the engineer nerd people orders multiple phones from Amazon then returns the ones he doesn't like after his own personal evaluation because he's a massive shithead.
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loquacius posted:High five digits, I'm guessing? Entry-level software engineers make enough to afford gadgets and fancy cars if you don't care about living somewhere cool (he did not) Yeah that guy I mentioned that gets multiple phones shipped to him so he can pick his favorite one also spends tons on his car and other gadgets and otherwise lives in a relatively meh area of town (he bought a house there) and lives on Domino's and canned tuna from Costco... $80k-90k/yr I know another one that is a little bit less of a nerd stereotype but he also makes about $70-80k/yr and is perpetually 'broke' because he wastes all his money away on tech gadgets and drinking on the weekends. I'm talking like paycheck to paycheck stressed about paying the CC bill at the end of the month broke... although I'm pretty sure some of his income goes into a retirement account at least. Doesn't even live in a particularly nice part of town - in fact he just moved into some townhouse with 3 roommates. Roylicious fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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