How do you justify 256gb iPhone X?

[kevmclane]

damn, it sounds like Verizon is giving you an iPhone X for free!

Apple and Verizon are really generous to you here

Well I mean I am already paying a decent amount of money a month, but $11 more doesn’t seem bad when I’m getting by perfectly fine with what I already pay.

I think the smartest thing to do in any money situation is to think of the long term and how much money it’ll cost over the course of a year in comparison of how much you’d have, then it doesn’t look nearly as bad.

 

[pascaladjaero]

LMFAO, I put it in my cart just to see what it totalled to.... I rolled on the floor and removed it from my cart faster than Apples A11 Bionic chip. That’s a lot of money. You’ll enjoy the first couple weeks/months and then deep down you MIGHT just wonder if it really was worth that much.
But by all means... if you want it, get it. If you can’t justify that price, be like me and keep calm.

 

[comptr]

Personally, I don’t really see the overall cost as a factor in my decision. I’m on the Verizon Device Payment Plan and upgrade my iPhone yearly. Going from a 7 Plus 128gb to an X 256gb is only about $11 more a month than I currently pay. That doesn’t seem bad at all in my eyes, so I’m fine with it! It’s not like I’m paying $1200+ upfront.

Nice, Same here I am also on Verizon Device Payments it going to cost me 7.46 extra per month to go from my 256gb 7+ to the 256 iPhone X.

 

[Viper2005]

Seriously...how do you justify it to yourself for a 256gb X upgrade/purchase?

Because my geek cred demands that I have this.

 

[Damon2]

Whilst I'm not convinced I'm getting the X, as I think it's overpriced generally and 128GB should have been the base storage.

I'm not so sure 64GB would be the best option, I currently have 128GB and I'm yet to use 64GB, think I have like 20GB to go. However I don't want to buy a 64G X and see my habits changed and suddenly have to start micromanaging what I put on my iPhone.

I may be fine with 64GB, 256 is overkill but there's no 128GB which would have been perfect.

 

[ACST]

Because for lots of people 1400 dollars isnt the same as 1400 dollars is for you.

 

[ray737]

No need to really justify it. I can afford to buy the X and I will. Very easy

 

[3rdiguy]

I wish they would've came out with a 128GB instead of making it a choice between 64 and 256

 

[rodiak]

It really comes down to one question - is 64G enough? For me it's not anymore. I currently own the 7+ 128GB with about 80 gigs in use. I don't like to actively manage storage on my phone. I delete things that I never use sometimes but it's not something that I want to ever think about (too many memories of 16GB iPhones ). So the 256GB is the only option for me. I never get Apple Care so I'm paying 1149 exactly (no tax in my state).

 

[Applejuiced]

Typical lack of logic with people making payments and renting everything in life without realizing or care what they are really paying in the long term. The overall cost of something is the logical actual price to consider and not the monthly payment or how much it comes out per day for example.
I dont really see it as a $40K car payment, its only costing me $23 a day
Lets rent a living room set, its only a small monthly payment. Lets make payments on a TV, its only this little per month, lets rent a wireless router from the internet company its only $10 more a month added on the bill and so on

Well I mean I am already paying a decent amount of money a month, but $11 more doesn’t seem bad when I’m getting by perfectly fine with what I already pay.

I think the smartest thing to do in any money situation is to think of the long term and how much money it’ll cost over the course of a year in comparison of how much you’d have, then it doesn’t look nearly as bad.

 

[SharepointGuy]

With your screen name, that should be a calculated field
=if([income] - [bills] > 0, "X for me", "Tracfone flip is good")

Haha very true. from a coding perspective any of SharePoint's special fields (lookup, person, etc..) are a mess to update with special formats so I avoid them like the plague if possible.

Why is this not in Swift 4?

Everyone knows C#, JS, and .NET are the future

 

[nutmac]

4K 60fps = LOL 64gb

4K at 60 fps is 400 MB per minute, which is spendy but easily doable if you have iCloud Photo Library and Optimize iPhone Storage enabled.

 

[jaack]

I didn't realise I had to justify it? I have the money and I want it so I don't see what the issue is.

If you can't afford it, go for the iPhone 8 or save up and wait until next year. No idea why people debate over this sort of stuff.

 

[DblHelix]

1) It will be like $7/month more than I pay on my 7+. 2) It is the first device I grab in the morning the last I touch before bed, has my entire life on it, and I use it instead of a laptop. It + a iPad Pro is more useful than a macbook pro for similar price to me. $1400 is a small consolation

 

[DennisdeWit]

I justify it very simply: I want it. End of discussion. I did that with many of my apple devices and so far I have not been regretting anything.

 

[Dodgeman]

lol at the disposable income post.
Where do principles lie in the wake of this?
Either way it’s people’s own money and devices so who are we to judge and suggest how they spend.
For me the X seems like something I would want but the 8 series will do just fine. Could I afford an x? Yes. Will spend the funds? It’s leaning more on the side of No.

 

[fsumom]

If you have to justify it, it's probably not the phone for you.

 

[harpyeagle]

If you have to justify it, it's probably not the phone for you.

I justify everything I buy. It was never a question of affordability. But that's just me though. Thanks for playing.

Also about other posts saying $x/month, I don't know if that's the new definition of affordability...$x this $y that per month. I see this as giving away a piece of ourselves to financial behemoths like Apple who are only happy to take our money with much less in return than what it used to be. I mean the excitement of an iPhone is not just what it used to be honestly. And I cannot count how many Apple products we have at our home.

 

[JayIsAwesome]

The excitement of the iPhone is definitely there for me. Can't wait to preorder my iPhone X. Getting the Apple Watch too. It's my money and I can afford it. Honestly, the majority here seem to be fully grown adults. If you're an adult and it's your money and you wanna buy 10 iPhones....do you. There are people here who could easily afford every Apple device in Apple's arsenal if they truly wanted to. I don't get why anybody has to justify what they wanna spend their money on. If you can easily afford it, then I say go for it. You're not hurting anybody. Far too much going on in the world for me to waste time worrying about how another fully grown adult spends his or her money

 

[harpyeagle]

The excitement of the iPhone is definitely there for me. Can't wait to preorder my iPhone X. Getting the Apple Watch too. It's my money and I can afford it. Honestly, the majority here seem to be fully grown adults. If you're an adult and it's your money and you wanna buy 10 iPhones....do you. There are people here who could easily afford every Apple device in Apple's arsenal if they truly wanted to. I don't get why anybody has to justify what they wanna spend their money on. If you can easily afford it, then I say go for it. You're not hurting anybody. Far too much going on in the world for me to waste time worrying about how another fully grown adult spends his or her money

Enjoy your new toys

 

[QCassidy352]

I don't think it needs to be justified. Most people (except for the extremely rich and the extremely poor) have to make choices about how to spend their discretionary income. You can spend $1400 on a dinner for two, or a pair of shoes, or Superbowl tickets, or a hundred other things. And someone else will always think it's a waste of money and will tell you they can make a meal for a couple of bucks, buy $20 sneakers at Kmart, and watch the game on TV. We don't all need to agree on what's a good or bad use of money, nor do we have to justify what we value.

(that said, for me personally, the iPhone X's cost goes too far. I'll be keeping my 7 a good long while, and if it got stolen tomorrow, I'd probably get a SE, which I view as 90% of the capability at 30% of the cost. But I certainly don't think people who want the X need to justify it.)

 

[areyes163]

I don't think it needs to be justified. Most people (except for the extremely rich and the extremely poor) have to make choices about how to spend their discretionary income. You can spend $1400 on a dinner for two, or a pair of shoes, or Superbowl tickets, or a hundred other things. And someone else will always think it's a waste of money and will tell you they can make a meal for a couple of bucks, buy $20 sneakers at Kmart, and watch the game on TV. We don't all need to agree on what's a good or bad use of money, nor do we have to justify what we value.

(that said, for me personally, the iPhone X's cost goes too far. I'll be keeping my 7 a good long while, and if it got stolen tomorrow, I'd probably get a SE, which I view as 90% of the capability at 30% of the cost. But I certainly don't think people who want the X need to justify it.)

That's well said.

 

[Septembersrain]

I'm not getting it myself but I'd have to assume that the logic would be to have as much space as you can. Rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it?

 

[Dave245]

The excitement of the iPhone is definitely there for me. Can't wait to preorder my iPhone X. Getting the Apple Watch too. It's my money and I can afford it. Honestly, the majority here seem to be fully grown adults. If you're an adult and it's your money and you wanna buy 10 iPhones....do you. There are people here who could easily afford every Apple device in Apple's arsenal if they truly wanted to. I don't get why anybody has to justify what they wanna spend their money on. If you can easily afford it, then I say go for it. You're not hurting anybody. Far too much going on in the world for me to waste time worrying about how another fully grown adult spends his or her money

This! I fully agree, if you want it and you can afford it I say get it, life is to short.

 

[harpyeagle]

I'm not getting it myself but I'd have to assume that the logic would be to have as much space as you can. Rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it?

Yes as 64g is prob not going to last long these days unless you pay another piece of your pie to apple's cloud storage or offload freq to an external drive..and i believe this is probably the reason why Apple doesn't sell the 128gb..so you'll get the 256gb. Whether they are up there in the innovation graph..it's a question, but in greediness, you bet.