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Got $135 to Spare? Beguile Onlookers With This Convincing iPhone 14 Pro Ripoff
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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.
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.
That's all it does, looking good in the product description.
I would not be surprised if even the looks are heavily photoshopped.
For sure you will not get functionality close to a real iPhone, as evidenced by the fake camera hump containing only one camera instead of three (let alone the Lidar), the lack of Face ID which makes the whole dynamic island thing moot, and 100% you can forget runing iOS on this device.
There was a clone of a Ultra Watch discussed here recently, with a link to several reviews. In this case, the looks were all you got from the device, and even they were mostly fake with the "ceramic" back being plastic and the "screws" printed on to make it look like an Apple product.
In short, it looks like an iPhone on the surface, but you will not get "mostly the same functionality and the OS is virtually the same". Have you ever come across a third party device running iOS?
Plenty of places where an iPhone is still a status symbol.
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."
Never really considered myself racist in my youth, but I think I'm starting to become racist as I get older.
West Taiwan is just basically taking the piss at this point. Lost all respect for them these last few years.
West Taiwan is just basically taking the piss at this point. Lost all respect for them these last few years.
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.
Regarding Japan pricing, there was some discussion about that on this forum back in July.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-increases-prices-in-japan-by-up-to-25.2349822/
Apple doesn't typically adjust prices multiple times a year. Perhaps when the next iPhone launches later this year, pricing in Japan will reflect the current exchange rate situation.
they did a mid year refresh of the price last year. Hopefully a mid year refresh is incoming this year.
$700 iPad on Amazon is now ¥128,000 in Japan which equates to $990.
Too rich for my taste.
$700 iPad on Amazon is now ¥128,000 in Japan which equates to $990.
Too rich for my taste.
I was interested in kit cars a long while back, and yeah, this is totally on the money. A lot of kit cars relied on... I want to say Fiat frames and engines maybe? But what got my attention once was a Shelby Cobra kit car that was designed with a 1984 Corvette frame and engine in mind because for the time, they were readily available and relatively affordable, with the bonus of great performance.
"Beguile Onlookers With This Convincing iPhone 14 Pro Ripoff"
Okay, so I have a 14 pro max, but I'd be kidding myself to think anyone's beguiled by it. Seriously. It's just the latest iPhone iteration.All the beguiling stuff happened back in 2007 - when the very first iPhone hit the streets.