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Which will lead to even further price gouging, and as long as they still have "record breaking" sales, more price gouging again. The prices will continue to inflate as long as people keep buying anyway. Only one way to reverse that trend, and I'm betting that the cheaper $750 model reflects that - Apple is acknowledging that they were pushing their limits if they offered no sub- $1000 phone. That's also why only the 64GB model prices are featured in most advertising. If they continue to sell/develop Macs I hope the problems with the last two yearly laptop offerings will keep prices down for a while. Mac users appear to be much more upset/disappointed as a whole than phone customers - so far. Keyboard issues and lack of ports are looming problems for laptop customers. I've yet to find a valid reason for removal of the headphone jack a few years ago (other than increasing sales of wireless headphones), and though that cost them some iPhone users, people who didn't mind the port loss continued to buy the new phones at higher prices, regardless. That got Apple over that hurdle, and money saved by not providing the jack added to the profit margin.
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Wish they'd just offer an SD memory slot for easy expansion, so if you bought the "lower end" 64GB model you could upgrade it as needed rather than fork over for a new phone. Maybe they could use all the space they saved by removal of the headphone jack for an SD memory expansion card - you can buy a 128 GB micro-SDXC card for $50.

Yeah, then again these are not good practises when you want to become a trillion dollar company...
 
They don't give a crap about users and their struggle with 64G, their only concern is $ and they will do literally any dirty trick to force people buy more expensive model. Disgusting
They are a business. There main goal is to make money. Thats how they survive. If Apple can't make money, they can't make product, they can't advertise, and they wouldn't have any users. They wouldn't be around. This is all companies.
Samsungs main goal is to make money
Google needs to make money
its very simple
 
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Don't you people ever get tired of telling every one what steve would and would not have liked or done? Truth is NONE of you have a flipping clue.
And even if the OP were correct in this situation... So what? Steve Jobs was brilliant and focused, but he wasn't a god, he made mistakes. There were plenty of times he should have said, "no", and didn't (remember "iPod Socks"? He was the head of the company, he could have nixed them, instead he stood up on stage and announced them). Apple has made plenty of mistakes in the past few years, but trying to only do things that someone believes Steve would have done is not the correct approach either.
 
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