This is Apple lowering the price, while trying not to lose face by lowering the price. Hilarious! These sure are fun times watching from the sidelines. 
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Apple Promo Offers Up to $100 in Extra Trade-In Credit Toward New iPhone XR or XS
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So much for best selling iPhones ever streak. Could be new theme across entire product line. Charging more for underwhelming products that they have intentionally held back performance/features. Look at the MBA.
According to rumors, next year iPhones will be just incremental updates. Number of early adopters will dwindle and Tim will have to offer higher trade in offers come November 2019. But I say offering X at 599 is a step in the right direction
I would have gotten an XR by now if it was $100 cheaper and the phone itself was smaller. Sticking to my 7 for another year at least.
They let you do that in the UK over 20 months. It’s called iPhone payments:
https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/iphone/payments/overlay
Strangely, it’s fairly hidden on their website, and the webpage is hardly enticing, so they clearly don’t want you to go for this option.
Well, I just got my battery replaced in my 6S yesterday and it’s running like a charm. This would be more tempting if Apple sold a new phone at a size and price that was appealing to me. The XR is simply too big for my tastes. The XS is also slightly bigger than I prefer and comes at a price I’m not willing to pay.
Minor wear and tear is fine as long as there's no water damage, screen cracks, bent phone, etc. These trade in programs aren't strict by design because the credit only applies towards new device purchase. If it were trade in for cash then it would be a different story. Didn't have any issue trading in an iPhone with yellow spot on screen and got full value.
The thing is I got a new iPHone 6s for $150, HOmepod for $240, and a 6th gen Ipad for $210 or $600 total and still saved ~$200 compared to buying an IPhone XR.
$200 trade in for the 6s is pretty good tho. You can actually get a 6s for $140ish from Cricket right now.
$200 trade in for the 6s is pretty good tho. You can actually get a 6s for $140ish from Cricket right now.
yeah I finally saw the XR in the store and it's quite huge. Was that their mistake? Selling a huge phone at a price increase and not having a new smaller cheaper new one? Even the XS is bigger to hold than an Iphone 6s/7/8.
You have wasted a few grand for sure. How would an extra $100 make a difference, whereas you didn’t bother to
recoup a few grand?
Papa Cook? Were you in vitro?
Frankly, a few hundred dollars per phone wasn’t worth my time selling them each. This mail in exchange to Apple makes it not too bad. I have a lot of items, cameras, camera lenses, computers, etc that I don’t sell because it’s just not worth my time. They usually accumulate until I donate them.
Apple products I usually just keep around as memorabilia since I regret having gotten rid of my Apple //e, Mac SE, original PowerBook, and other products from decades ago.
But with iPhones, except for my 1st iPhone, I’m starting to think they’re not worth keeping.
In vitro? I suppose you would know.
Primarily because that isn’t Apple’s base. Their main customers are so wealthy that This is kind of viewed as an instant rebate in their eyes. Give up my former phone which I have no use for, save $100. Most uppity folk aren’t gonna want to put in the time and effort of dealing with craigslist strangers.