I suspect you are correct and we will something like we have now with the iPad. The standard 7S and 7S+ mainstream model and the "pro" iPhone 8 spendy model.
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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 suspect you are correct and we will something like we have now with the iPad. The standard 7S and 7S+ mainstream model and the "pro" iPhone 8 spendy model.
We don't really know what Apple is releasing for a physical design this year.
The S8 is a nice device. But the facial recognition is not a compelling feature for me to want to purchase the S8 at all. Wireless charging Has its limitations.
The trade off for me is...Apple's ecosystem, fluidity with iOS, security and Continuous software updates, coupled with their customer service. If Apple makes the appropriate changes to the hardware, everything else Falls into place.
Congrats. The PC I built blows away anything I've ever owned from Apple.
I paid $969 for the 7 Plus 256GB. I use it for everything, it is my main computing device. It comes out to about $48 per month. I am guessing the $999 phone should be about $52 per month. I spend that on a lot worse than a device I will use / enjoy daily. Screen size, phone size, OLED, wireless charging, fingerprint sensor in the screen, updates to both front and back cameras, speaker improvements, and an updated processor are all selling points for me.
I want the limited edition $899 16GB Phil Shiller model.
You're right. The $650 will still be the iPhone 7. Take a look at how they jacked up the prices on the MPB and maintained entry price point by still selling the older model.
Not that much more than the current 7+. I have a standard 7 now which will go to the wife as soon as this comes out. Really looking forward to it. (Not to mention what it may be doing to Apple's stock prices, lol). If I hold just a bit longer I can buy a few dozen of these with just the profit made off the stock!
As if $1000 is that much, my first Nokia GSM which I bought in 1997 was 1300 Dutch Guilders, probably about $1500-$2000 in todays money, it also had internet, although very limited, made a small fortune (with it) on the forex market.
Earned it back in no time.
Earned it back in no time.
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I have to agree with a previous poster— I don't see the justification for such a high price based on the rumors. Even if the godPhone 8 comes with *everything* rumored, it still doesn't warrant that very premium price IMO. Unless, of course, there's something(s) huuuge about it that we don't know of yet.
I think it makes sense considering they did the same with the Apple Watch. If it has OLED and 3D sensing capabilities that lets users unlock the phone with facial recognition and so on and all the stuff that is so far rumoured it will be the all out model to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, the question is how many people will opt for it over the 7s and 7s Plus, personally if it has all those features I will buy one since I use my iPhone everyday so the value I will get out of it is worth it. It does however need to be a really great phone and I supsect it will be.
So probably looking at $1400-$1500+ up here in Canada. Include tax and could be upwards of $1700. That's just crazy.
These prices are insane. Smartphones should have gotten cheaper since their inception, not more expensive. They shouldn't cost the same as a very powerful desktop PC.
Apple's head is well and truly in the clouds when it comes to pricing. At this point, they're just testing how far their customers will allow them to rip them off.
Apple need to stop being so delusional if they want to stay relevant. Consumers WILL start revolting, as they already are.
Apple's head is well and truly in the clouds when it comes to pricing. At this point, they're just testing how far their customers will allow them to rip them off.
Apple need to stop being so delusional if they want to stay relevant. Consumers WILL start revolting, as they already are.
So I presume this person doesn't predict Apple will sell many either then? That'll be £1000 in the U.K, about £400 more then the S8.... oh and Samsung are rumoured to be relaunching the Note 7 with fixed battery for around £360 when if it's launched in the UK.
Apple will have a tough sell at that price, even more so as they will not allow it to be discounted.
Apple will have a tough sell at that price, even more so as they will not allow it to be discounted.
Same. I can keep my old iPhone and finance a MacBook for the same price as getting a new phone. No thanks. Hard pass for me.
Apple's pricing is totally whacko for all their products now...it was bad now its insane. I pretty much have always bought Refurb and upgraded components to fit my needs. Ofc this process is over. My 2012 MBP is still trucking along nicely and does my pro work very well, 6S and iPad Air 2 is holding up too. I have been offered countless upgrades but refused as its all good. Overall my ESXi cluster and AWS does the rest.
All i know how painful it is to say to my clients to replace something is 2-3 times the cost of something else. So hence why we are moving back to Dell XPS and HP workstations for many employees. We can flip platforms so easily now Creative Cloud, O365 or Google Suite.
I love supporting Macs in many respects so much easier and at scale maybe cheaper to support than a PC, but the price if products is out of control.
All i know how painful it is to say to my clients to replace something is 2-3 times the cost of something else. So hence why we are moving back to Dell XPS and HP workstations for many employees. We can flip platforms so easily now Creative Cloud, O365 or Google Suite.
I love supporting Macs in many respects so much easier and at scale maybe cheaper to support than a PC, but the price if products is out of control.
So it should start at 1150-1200€ in Germany (and the other € countries).
An iPhone at $1,000 will be approximately $42 a month with my carrier's device payment plan.
I'm currently paying $35 a month for my iPhone.
I can swing the extra $7/mo.
I'm currently paying $35 a month for my iPhone.
I can swing the extra $7/mo.
Apparently not as they have predicted large sales numbers. Don't forget those who are on the Apple upgrade programme and those that pay a monthly bill will probably not notice an increase as much as those of us who buy our phones outright. Apple are also rumoured to be releasing a 7s and 7s Plus so those who don't want to pay the higher price tag can get one of those.
So that will make it something like $46 or $47 per month on the iUP...thats not a huge monthly increase over what I am paying now. Likely the iPhone 8 128 GB will be my iPhone purchase this year 
$999 US would mean the price would likely be 1399 CAD.
Probably have carrier subsidies making it available for 499-699.
that's a very tall order right now for the Canadian market, which is seeing costs of living skyrocket due to dollar disparity.
Going to be a tough sell in many international markets at that price.
Probably have carrier subsidies making it available for 499-699.
that's a very tall order right now for the Canadian market, which is seeing costs of living skyrocket due to dollar disparity.
Going to be a tough sell in many international markets at that price.
16GB user here and it works fine for me. People have different needs.
- I have 94 applications installed. This is more than I need really; I don't use most of them.
- With an unlimited data plan everything is streamed (music, podcasts, radio, and video media), not stored. Streaming libraries contain far more than I could ever sync anyway. And frankly I don't really enjoy watching TV/movies on a tiny screen.
- Photos, videos, and data backups go to the 50GB iCloud for 99c a month. This is far cheaper than bumping up iPhone memory size, it is an off-site backup which protects me from data loss, and it propagates to my iPads and Mac which is super convenient.
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How do you figure pricing should go down lol? They add more features better hardware, that cost money. that's the problem with consumers we want all these great features, but, we don't want to pay for it. I'm not saying $1000 is fair, i'm also not saying it isn't the phone hasn't been announced yet, so we don't know what they will have. But if it's everything rumored, take my money.
Yikes, we pay $38 per month per phone for verizon unlimited with taxes/fees. I prefer $30 but need 4 more peeps to join the plan to get there. T mobile has horrible coverage here...