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Apple Says MagSafe Charger Limited to 12W for iPhone 12 Mini
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Correct, you can't pay $699, the price nets out to $699. Which isn't an incorrect statement on the website.
How is that? Are you including the cell service, which one needs anyway. Verizon is giving you a 0% apr rate for two years and then crediting your account.
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How does it net out? If it's $699 from Apple, then Verizon charges you $30. It's $729 no matter how you look at it. The only difference is that $729 gets split between 2 companies instead of one.
AT checkout you get an instant credit, then VZW charges you $30 so the price nets out to $699.
Because you're not paying $799. And yes, I'm including cell service because that's part of the deal. If you could get the phone without bundled service costs or stupid crediting schemes for $799 then you'd be correct, but you can't and so you're not.
You're playing semantics. You can't use any cell phone without cell service. However, it's clear the phone itself is $699 plus you have to pay for cell service, which you would have to pay for anyway for a sim-free...unless you are one in a few that will use it as an ipod.
Nope, you said the phone cost $799, i'm just pointing out that there are a bunch of asterisks on that price that make it deceptive. Obviously, you'll need to pay for service, but the fact remains that the $799 price you listed from carriers isn't really $799. It's $799+whatever they feel like tacking on. If you want those extras anyway, that's fine, but it's still misleading.
The phone does cost whatever the advert says it costs. You still have to pay for cell service, sim free or through Verizon. Your total out of pocket costs is still dependent on the plan that you choose or already have. It's not misleading it says so on the website. You are choosing not to include the cost of cell service, which is misleading, to a point.
I'm choosing to not ignore the full price of the bundle, you're pretending the cost of the plan somehow doesn't affect the price of the phone. Clearly, we're not changing each other's minds here, so I'm going to stop replying after this.
No at checkout you get a $30 instant credit taking the price from $729 to $699. Then Verizon charges you $30 bringing it back up to $729.
Thanks for following along.
Sure, except for the part where the MagSafe puck sticks to your phone when you pick it up. In that usage it seems to me like one might as well stick with a faster and more efficient lightning connection.
But whatever. A base charger that stays put when you pick up the phone, and auto-aligns the phone to solve the qi alignment fiddliness would be the best of both worlds in my opinion.
this is not what net means
i plan to use it with a service, just not att or verizon or tmobiles service. and to do this/ i have to pay. 729 for the phone
With a qualifying plan, you mean a $30 fee, right? Because I'm not seeing where I can get a phone for $699 anywhere.
This is BS. I use a wireless charger every night. I don’t have issues cantering the phone on the pad, and even if I did, the thought of waking up sleepy, picking up my phone with an annoying magnetic charger attached, potentially dropping the charger if it unsnaps and then having to find it and reattach it sounds way more hassle than just setting my phone back down and finding I only have 56% battery in the morning because it wasn’t aligned quite right.
The easiest solution to the problem you describe is a better wireless charger like the twelve south picture frame. No misalignment possible, and it looks 100x better than a puck on the end of a cable.
Read the fine print. I've highlighted the relevant parts.
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