Since Apple will stop selling the iPhone X, do you think it'll become a collectors item in 10-20 years and sell for a lot of money?
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iPhone X Do you think it'll be worth buying an iPhone X just to save it since Apple will stop selling it?
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No.
There’ll be 100+ million of them around, it’s not like it was when the original iPhone launched.
There’ll be 100+ million of them around, it’s not like it was when the original iPhone launched.
Would you buy an iPhone 5 now?
The iPhone 5 stopped selling one year after it was launched.
Same thing.
Why it’s going to be replaced with the X1 or whatever phone they release in September. It’s not the original iPhone.
Would you really consider purchasing a $1000 iPhone unopened just for the sake of hoping it will be with something more 20 years from now?
Of course...these things will be worth 20K plus in 10 years sealed in the box. Buy as many of them as you can!!
No. There’s already too many in circulation and other people will probably make that mistake. It will not become rare and super valuable.
If you take that $1,000 and invest it wisely over the next 20 years you will come out much farther ahead than buying an iPhone X and saving it
Hell, you can take that $1,000 and bury it in the back yard and dig it up in 20 years and still come out ahead
Hell, you can take that $1,000 and bury it in the back yard and dig it up in 20 years and still come out ahead
Forget about buying an X as an investment, buy $1000 of crypto-currency and you’ll be on the moon in 20 years time!....
I buy every single Apple product and keep it in pristine unopened condition. I don’t even open the box in which it is shipped to me, which adds up to 50% of it’s original retail value on the collectors market.
The french drain was overflowing in the garage when it rained so I had to move all of my Apple collectibles up to the master bedroom. My wife and I sleep in the garage now. She served me with divorce papers last month.
The french drain was overflowing in the garage when it rained so I had to move all of my Apple collectibles up to the master bedroom. My wife and I sleep in the garage now. She served me with divorce papers last month.
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As was stated above, this is basically the same situation as the iPhone 5. Apple is likely to discontinue the X, but not due to slow sales. They’re just rolling out an updated model next year, so there’s no need to keep the X in production so it can cannibalize the next iteration.
Think about this as if it were a car. Honda doesn’t continue to make 2017 Civics for a discounted price when it’s 2018, and there’s no reason to buy a 2017 for that reason.
Maybe that makes sense, maybe not. I’m tired
Think about this as if it were a car. Honda doesn’t continue to make 2017 Civics for a discounted price when it’s 2018, and there’s no reason to buy a 2017 for that reason.
Maybe that makes sense, maybe not. I’m tired
Good point. Lithium batteries naturally lose charge when not in use, As a matter fact, it's actually very unhealthy for lithium batteries to not be charged regularly for a long period of time, where they may not be able to be resurrected if they stay fully depleted.
https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/
Apple is not going to stop selling the iPhone X as it's the greatest product they've ever created.
Yes, NVDA.
[doublepost=1517143191][/doublepost]Also it's being replaced by basically the next version of the X, it's not like it's going from one generation to the next. It's getting a refresh. Apple's lineup is too fragmented nowadays to get any value from collecting.
Not a chance. In three years the battery will be unusable even if (especially if) you put it on a shelf in the box. In five years it will be technologically obsolete. In 10 years you won't be able to give it away. You are talking about a technological device that's being produced in the millions. It's essentially disposable.
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Until September of this year...when there will be a new greatest proceed they've ever created. And if you don't believe me, stream the Apple presentation this fall.
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This is correct. Regardless of charge state, they simply age and lose charge capacity over time. And that battery is not going to be a part that Apple, or anyone else, keeps in production.
Sure, but that will be the ho-hum iPhone XS, another "S" type release which never counted as something special, just a slight spec bump for those who were in the old iPhone for an extra year while everyone else was using the latest and greatest.
The iPhone 6 was not rendered irrelevant when the 6S was released. Same thing with the X if/when it's updated in the "S" cycle. I think with so few X's available and a long wait at launch and it being an anniversary model there is no incentive for Apple to bump up the X so soon. They could treat it like the 12" MacBook which has only gotten processor tweaks over the last 3 years of its life.
There's a brand new rumor on the front page that puts a little more specificity on the guesses, I mean rumors, about what XI or 11 or whatever the second year X will be called. But even if it's just a spec bump, and an extra GB of RAM is a significant spec bump, the 2017 X can't be called "the greatest" once it's been replaced by a higher-spec'd model.