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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Go On Sale in U.S. and Canada to Huge Lines

It's pretty cool how all the cool kids with lives post on here all day about all the losers without lives.
 
addicted44 said:
And that's well and good. Nothing wrong with that. However, your decision to not spend $850 to get an iPhone does not make my decision to spend $850 to buy an iPhone any worse.

I've been buying Apple products since 2005, and despite having spent more upfront, I have come out much better in purely financial terms than any of my anti-Apple peers. I expect that trend to continue with the iPhone 6.
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Is there a phone expensive than the top of the range Apple phone? :confused:
Just wondering how you came out on top compared to your non-Apple peers? :confused:

Assuming you both have a bank balance of $1000. Example: An Apple iPhone6 32GB costs $500. A Samsung Galaxy 32GB costs $400.
If you bought the apple phone and a peer bought the Samsung phone, how can you end up "on top"? :confused: The way I look at it, he's a $100 richer than you are, after the purchase?

Just curious to know? Because iPhones aren't manufactured to break but neither was another phone manufactured to intentionally break. But it happens to some people. Sometimes.
 
spectrumfox said:
Apple: "Thank you for showing us the way, and for showing us that people really do want bigger phones."

Samsung: "You're welcome. Glad we could help."
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More like:

Apple: "We showed you back in 2007 what people want smartphones to look like and what they are able to do. You were able to catch up and now make a pretty great phone as well"

Samsung: "We just said 'make them bigger' and you saw that people would actually buy them. We are both equally innovative!"
 
croooow said:
More like:

Apple: "We showed you back in 2007 what people want smartphones to look like and what they are able to do. You were able to catch up and now make a pretty great phone as well"

Samsung: "We just said 'make them bigger' and you saw that people would actually buy them. We are both equally innovative!"
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Apple and Samsung. Best of frenemies. :D
 
spectrumfox said:
Apple: "Thank you for showing us the way, and for showing us that people really do want bigger phones."

Samsung: "You're welcome. Glad we could help."
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Samsung certainly deserves credit for creating the phablet market. It's a pity they were unable to use all this time they had the market to themselves to build the kind of device that people would not want to switch away from.
 
Windlasher said:
We have 5 Iphones.

We are consider leaving ATT. Can you still not talk and search the web on the other services, or is this no longer an issue?
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It is possible on Verizon now that they have enabled their VoLTE. You have to go onto their site and add Advanced Calling 1.0 service to your account though, but it is free of charge. If you're in an area where there is no LTE service, then you will not be able to use data while making a phone call.
 
Windlasher said:
Cool - Soon I am going to call ATT and tell them I am switching so they can transfer me to "customer retention" department. Then I will say that I am switching to T-Mobile unless they let us upgrade and keep the same plan. They will tell me to stuff it, and then I will switch, and then they will call me and offer me my old plan to stay which by then will be too late.

Customer service is a misnomer.
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I would recommend swinging by a TMobile store and asking them about any restrictions your phones may face before you switch. TMobile reps have been pretty honest with me at least, about what would and would not work.
 
addicted44 said:
Samsung certainly deserves credit for creating the phablet market. It's a pity they were unable to use all this time they had the market to themselves to build the kind of device that people would not want to switch away from.
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From what I see, there's an equal amount of "switching away from" going on on both sides of the playing field. Which is good. Competition is a good thing, it means we all benefit.
 
anek007 said:
I hate to be the person who waited hours and hours and to find out they just sold the last one.
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i wonder how many people r like

SOLD OUT?!?!??? I DONT CARE GIVE ME ONE THATS 300 OR 400 DOLLAR MORE EXPENSIVE IN ANY COLOR OR SIZE. I NEED IT NOW!!!
 
AxoNeuron said:
I wish iphone sales would completely flop. Apple is expecting people to spend $750 on a phone with a measly 16GB storage? Even worse, not expandable? Yet the sheep lined up like always. NAND flash prices have fallen to less than a third of what they were in 2010 when Apple moved to 16GB nearly FIVE years ago. And they'll keep it at 16GB until people stop falling for the scam.

If Apple tried to get away with the same BS in the laptop market with SSD's, and tried to sell a laptop today with 2010 storage, people would say hell no.
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I'm with you, why should all these people be free to make their own decisions? Why won't they listen to you and do as they're told?

Strange all these sheep, making their own decisions with their own money and their own time.
 
addicted44 said:
Samsung certainly deserves credit for creating the phablet market. It's a pity they were unable to use all this time they had the market to themselves to build the kind of device that people would not want to switch away from.
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The device isn't the issue (for me at least), it was the lack of a properly stable/fluid OS and by the time Google got that (mostly) sorted I had become totally ingrained in the iOS ecosystem.

I went back to Android last year for a short while (Galaxy S4) and enjoyed the hardware but missed too much from the iOS world. Got my new 6 today and it finally feels like the complete phone - just a few bugs to iron out with iOS 8 and the custom keyboards I so badly wanted and I'm a happy camper.
 
spectrumfox said:
You guys are so quick to easily forget that if it weren't for Samsung, there wouldn't BE bigger iPhone's. ;)

Be careful not to bite the hand that feeds you...
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You keep getting your history wrong. Samsung wasnt the first android oem to make bigger screened phones.
 
spectrumfox said:
You guys are so quick to easily forget that if it weren't for Samsung, there wouldn't BE bigger iPhone's. ;)

Be careful not to bite the hand that feeds you...
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Samsung came out with the phablet first. If it weren't for Samsung, there would be no phablet (re: bigger iPhones).

You made a logical fallacy retort. Your statement was illogical.
 
spectrumfox said:
From what I see, there's an equal amount of "switching away from" going on on both sides of the playing field. Which is good. Competition is a good thing, it means we all benefit.
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I agree competition is good. And I really do like what Google is doing with Android L (not as much as I like what MS is doing with WP, btw, although they are moving very slowly).

Unfortunately, the hardware side, especially with Android, is just bad. Customer support is pretty much non-existent, and stuff is added to fill spec sheets rather than to make a better device for their customers.

Apple with TouchID and Samsung with their fingerprint scanner thing, is very indicative of the massive difference in philosophies from both sides. Apple does expect you to pay a premium, but in return they give you a much better thought out device.
 
Trapezoid said:
You keep getting your history wrong. Samsung wasnt the first android oem to make bigger screened phones.
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My history's not wrong. Samsung may not have been the first OEM to make bigger screened phones and that's not what I was inferring.

They were the most successful at it and made the world take notice.

Apple deserves the same credit for the introduction of the modern smartphone.

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BasicGreatGuy said:
Samsung came out with the phablet first. If it weren't for Samsung, there would be no phablet (re: bigger iPhones).

You made a logical fallacy retort. Your statement was illogical.
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Thanks, Sheldon. Bazinga.
 
spectrumfox said:
From what I see, there's an equal amount of "switching away from" going on on both sides of the playing field. Which is good. Competition is a good thing, it means we all benefit.
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sure is

Samsung did take advantage of having a larger display, I know several people including me that gave samsung a try just for the display and now I will go try apple again because in my expierence apple is a tad better
 
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