To those that claim it won't cost that much, perhaps, but please remember this is Apple and Tim Cook, the man who took to the stage in front of the worlds press representing Apple to announce a watch, priced at $12,000, with the EXACT SAME screen, sensors, os, chips, boards, controls, battery, in fact everything bar the casing metal, as their $300 watch.. oh and they charged the same price for the Mac Pro since launch several years ago until this year.
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iPhone 8 Predicted to Cost $999 For 128GB And $1,099 For 256GB, With No 32GB Model
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I will leave the whole Apple eco system if the new iPhone is $1000.
iPad is dead.(I've had 4 of them, it's over)
and my days of iMac using are over.
zero interest in Apple Watch or any smart watch.
so I'm left with iPhones and MacBooks.
my MacBook Pro needs "upgrade", but there is no worthy upgrade, the new MacBook Pros SUCK and not worth the price increase at all.I am being forced to buy the 12" MacBook ,but that thing is also far from being the perfect laptop..so underpowered and limited yet so expensive..
now if they blew iPhone too,I will happily move to the next Galaxy Note (had Note 5 for 6 months and it was awesome) and a nice Surface Pro,saving lots of money, gaining lots of functionality.won't miss anything anymore.
Apple's products are only preferable when they have that "magic"...now it's nothing but a brand and stupid price hikes.
still,I hope the new iPhone is not $1000 just because it has stupid OLED screen that Samsung used in the past decade even in their budget mini line.
iPad is dead.(I've had 4 of them, it's over)
and my days of iMac using are over.
zero interest in Apple Watch or any smart watch.
so I'm left with iPhones and MacBooks.
my MacBook Pro needs "upgrade", but there is no worthy upgrade, the new MacBook Pros SUCK and not worth the price increase at all.I am being forced to buy the 12" MacBook ,but that thing is also far from being the perfect laptop..so underpowered and limited yet so expensive..
now if they blew iPhone too,I will happily move to the next Galaxy Note (had Note 5 for 6 months and it was awesome) and a nice Surface Pro,saving lots of money, gaining lots of functionality.won't miss anything anymore.
Apple's products are only preferable when they have that "magic"...now it's nothing but a brand and stupid price hikes.
still,I hope the new iPhone is not $1000 just because it has stupid OLED screen that Samsung used in the past decade even in their budget mini line.
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It actually has much more to do with not learning a new operating system. And also having your iPhone work with your Mac and iPad. I don't know anyone who considers the iPhone a fashionable item. But I'm in the U.S. and the folks I hang out with really don't have any trouble buying an iPhone every two years or so.
But seriously, if you use your smartphone 50 times a day, you probably want it to be a really good one and the one you are used to. It makes sense to spend money on your smartphone because it is used so much.
That said, you can buy a decent Android phone for $100. It will work fine. If Apple's iPhone does start at $1,000 then sales will take a hit.
Well, that's actually part of the issue IMO. "It's just another 100 or so, what's the big deal?" I said that when paying the $100 to get the Plus size phone, $30 extra for my 7 Plus's dual camera, and again when paying the $100 extra to double my storage. How many more times am I going to have to add "only a few extra bucks" to get the cool new tech? And yes, I understand that it's a choice and no one is forcing me to pay extra, but it's the fact that this new iPhone supposedly isn't going to bring anything truly new to the table- it's all stuff that other phones already have. So I'm really paying for nothing but more "Apple tax".
Of course, this is assuming that all of the rumors are true. The 8 could cost less than 1k, or it could have some truly amazing new features that warrant such a price. But for now, I'm unimpressed.
While I'm inclined to empathize with your post. The realist in me believes this won't even be a blip after a few cycles. Remember the big hoopla about the missing 3.5mm jack? People here swore iPhone sales would suffer.
it didn't.
Aaaaannnnndddd.....No. I'm sorry. I cannot justify $1,000 for a phone. We've been gradually led to this and until this point I've played the game. I'm good on features, I'm good on specs. I don't need facial recognition, I don't need retina scan.
Soooo like at least $1350 Canadian? Yikes. Looking more like A) keeping my 6p and or 5S longer B) Samsung Galaxy 8 C) Buy a used iphone 7/6s or New 7S if it happens D) Go compact with a 5SE,.
Will probably wait to see that the new Pixel/Google phone ends up like and even One Plus.
On the off chance Canadian providers discount it heavily (not bloody likely) might be too rich for me.
Will probably wait to see that the new Pixel/Google phone ends up like and even One Plus.
On the off chance Canadian providers discount it heavily (not bloody likely) might be too rich for me.
Yeah I get what you're saying if you're already paying X for something that isn't cheap and not a necessity then a little bump on X shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Nothing wrong with paying for a phone monthly as long as there is no interest involved.
Some people can afford to pay $600 for a phone out right but rather pay the $25 a month and spend the $575 on other stuff or not spend it at all but just feel like why should I pay it all when they don't have to and there is no penalty for paying that way and the seller is the one making you that offer to pay them that way.
No different that some businesses that wait till the last day to payout because they're using your money to make interest off.
If you're paying interest on the phone then you goofed
999$ would easy be above 1100€ here in Portugal... it's going to be hard to compete against galaxy S8 for 820€...
If Touch ID is a physical button on the front of the phone I won't buy it. If it in the screen, or if it is centered on the back of the phone like my Nexus 6P I will absolutely buy it.
How do you know I don't have $600 in my account? Also where did I say it was urgent?
I'm going to shop for the best deal no matter and at the end of the day I'm paying $600 for the phone regardless of if I pay it out right or in the 24 months. There's no incentive for me pay it out right.
If there was a discount to pay it outright then that would be different.
Yeah... I think if you can take advantage of 0% interest... do it.
Smartphones are one of the few expensive electronic devices that can be purchased that way.
A $1,000 phone would be $42 a month on top of the monthly cell phone service you already need and pay for.
But a $1,000 laptop... you need the $1,000 all at once before you can walk out of the store with it. Or $1,000 camera... or whatever.
I say... take the lower monthly payments for a phone from your carrier... and save the big chunks of money for buying other things.
With upload directly to cloud storage when 5glte becomes norms
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Well when 5g lte becomes the norm I believe there will be no use for onboard storage , JMOO ! 25 years as a engineer !
There are perfectly good cars that cost $15,000 and yet some folks will pay $70,000 (and up to $100,000) for a Tesla Model S.
Some folks are perfectly happy with a $399 IPhone SE and others will be paying $1000 for the OLED IPhone 8 with all the bells and whistles. Its called "market segmentation." To each his own.
If your interested this is a great read about what is to come then you will understand why I believe phones will go back to a smaller storage.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/what-is-5g-and-when-do-i-get-it/
how do you know? I'm sure they have minimum price they would be willing to sell at, but they could float high prices like this in the press to see what the reception would be like. Since most people finance phones anyways the prices wouldn't even be that much drastically higher.I assure you Apple does not do pricing research off internet forums.