That's all it does, looking good in the product description.Seems pretty good to me. If it's mostly the same functionality and the OS is virtually the same, why not buy it.
I am actually of the opposite thinking. I don't care if it's a "real" iPhone if its functionality is close to a real iPhone. What I want is iOS and the same features not the brand. So if it's 90% the way there and it's 90% cheaper, I'll consider it. A genuine iPhone isn't worth the prices they're selling them for anyway. Same with the higher end Sammy's. F' em all.
Plenty of places where an iPhone is still a status symbol.In 2023 smartphones are so ubiquitous and vanilla, no one is remotely interested in what you use, let alone beguiled.
No. It's greed. ROtW is paying through their backsides to keep the products 'affordable' in your country. Other mfrs haven't done this, in the main. But the UK isn't even worst affected. Try living in India or Turkey.Much of "outrageous" overseas pricing was due to the currency exchange rate, not a (new) desire to position iPhones as status symbols.
When the iPhone 14 launched last year, the pre-sales tax price of a 128GB iPhone 14 in the U.S. was $829 which was equal to around £722 at the time. The pre-VAT price of the same phone in the UK was £707 which was actually less in £ than the U.S. price.
The pre-sales tax price of a 128GB iPhone 14 Pro in the U.S. was $999 which was equal to around £870 at the time. The pre-VAT price of the same phone in the UK was £915 are only a bit more.
No. It's greed. ROtW is paying through their backsides to keep the products 'affordable' in your country. Other mfrs haven't done this, in the main. But the UK isn't even worst affected. Try living in India or Turkey.
That's not true. As I pointed out in one example, the pre-VAT price of the 128GB iPhone 14 in the UK when it launched was actually LESS in £ than the pre-sales tax price of the same phone in the U.S. £707 in the UK versus £722 in the U.S. It's the exchange rate (stronger USD) that largely caused higher local currency prices in other countries, not Apple "greed."
So why then did Apple put the price up in Japan by anywhere up to 40% when the yen increased from 110 per dollar to about 150 in June 2022 but now it's at 125 they haven't jumped to reduce the price accordingly?
Asking for a friend.
Except you can drop a more powerful and likely more reliable engine and tranny in those. Not so much with this.