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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Financing iPhone X Can Work Out to Cost of Just a Few Nice Coffees Per Week
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I scrolled up to see if it was indeed the same person and almost spit my food laughing when it was.
Same here. I need to start drinking Starbucks so that I can quit it and buy an X instead.
Personally, I think Cook's statement is a pretty tone deaf one coming from someone who can afford to buy his own country multiple times over.
Coffee chains all across the country are now furious that Tim Cook has drawn people's attention to the fact that they are wasting loads of money on overpriced drinks.
No need. We're all drinking the Apple flavor
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I think he's making an accurate statement that people have no problem spending lots of money on something they think is valuable/worth it.
I absolutely hate it when people use this coffee example. Most people I know make their coffee at home. They make sound financial decisions every day. Why not bottled water, or eating out, or spotify, or Apple Music or any of the other hundreds of things someone purchases throughout any given month?
You can also finance a golden toilet like Donald Trump’s and it comes out to a few Starbucks coffees a day.
But if you’re not drinking that coffee, are you going to get your money’s worth out of that toilet?
Answer: no.
So you may as well get an iPhone X.
QED.
But if you’re not drinking that coffee, are you going to get your money’s worth out of that toilet?
Answer: no.
So you may as well get an iPhone X.
QED.
Right, the only people I know that drink 3+ Starbucks a week are folks making at least 150k+ where median is 70k here in the upper midwest.
Cooks comments come across as "Those of you who can't already afford a few starbucks a week, should forgoe the thing that you already don't get and use the non existing money to buy an iphone."
Really!?!
Heheh.
Apple to customers: "We're not trying to charge the highest price we could get or anything like that."
Apple to shareholders/investors: 'Hey, look at our massive margins!'
I'm not criticising them for making as much money as they can; but let's face it: no one buys Apple because they're so reasonably priced.
People who are already in debt can't begin dig themselves out when you have guys like Cook spewing this crap. There's too much borrowed money already. There's a false sense of affordability when they hear the cost of an iPhone X amounts to a cup of coffee.
always nice when a ceo wants people to go into debt to buy their products....
"Here! Don't buy this elitist thing. Buy this elitist thing!" Oh, Tim. You're not helping your case pitting two pretentious indulges against each other.
Don't buy this Whopper combo. Buy this Kia Soul instead. The Joe Everyman equivalent.
How can he even stand himself? By being a multi-billionaire shilling his wares condscendingly tell you if you want it, where there's a will, there's a way.
Don't buy this Whopper combo. Buy this Kia Soul instead. The Joe Everyman equivalent.
How can he even stand himself? By being a multi-billionaire shilling his wares condscendingly tell you if you want it, where there's a will, there's a way.
Aha. And how many working class people feel the need to buy (several) coffees-to-go every week?
True. Remember what Apple used to stand for. You buy Apple because they are the best. Apple never had to justify the price of products or never came down to pedestrian level to compare itself with some other product for the high price.
Welfare recipients aren't going to give up their Starbucks when they already get a free phone.
Maybe the problem lies with those people and that’s why over half the country has no savings to speak of.
A phone these days is pretty much a necessity. Coffee is not.
In both cases, though, you can get by with less. Maybe an iPhone 7 and for $3, you can make 10 cups of gourmet coffee that blows away Starbucks’ coffee.
Obviously this doesn’t apply to the folks who can easily afford both an X and $3 per coffee.
Cook's right though. People also say you can build a million dollar net worth for the price of a few nice coffees per week and nobody listens anyway.