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iPhone X Availability Improving at Apple Stores Around the World
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So what exactly is high end about it that would make it cost more than any other device.
Photography. Photographers are known to pay significantly more for a camera with a slightly better lens. The iPhone X has a better camera than the 8 Plus, but in a smaller device closer in size to the more pocketable iPhone 6/7/8. The iPhone X also has a higher contrast and higher resolution color display for editing photos and viewing HDR videos.
Not high-end, but still getting the rich kids and millennials to open their wallets wide: Animoji karaoke !
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According to Srouji, they started working on the A11 Bionic chip over 3 years ago. Which means that Apple engineering is not only probably already working on the A14, but that the A12 chip design is likely nearly finished, if not being prototyped already.
So don't buy an X because it's new. It's already way obsolete to the chip architects and designers. Buy it because it's better than anything else currently on the market at doing the things you want.
I tracked it via Apple's website and for 3 days it never said unavailable. I'm not sure how authoritative iStockNow is but I'll take Apple's website inventory over them any day.
That's hypocritical mate. Bringing in a car analogy rebuttal to a car anology....and you judge... Take the blinkers off .
Specially targeting quotes without context of discussion is just bickering. Have a good day. Like I said , if you have an issue , quote us both, not target me.
Yeah car anologies are my pet hate.... they are stupid , especially high end German cars = iPhone.... I've stated this so many times , but "pro" iPhone users ignore the original stupid car analogy comments and always target the people who rebuttal them, well done .... you have shown favouritism...
How about a fair go on these threads ?
The alternative to a notch is a fully fledged bezel.
In a few years, when the tech has matured so we can put cameras, speakers and microphones under the display, will notch be removed. Until then there is no other option than a notch or a bezel.
And since the notch gives you more screen real estate when compared to a bezel, I'm all for it.
If you grow the notch bigger, it becomes a normal bezel. Here's an iPhone X v a Pixel 2.
The natural price for a premium smartphone is between 600 and 900 Euros for me. The iPhone X goes for 1300 EUR in my country, so I compare that investment to all the other things that I could do or get for that sum. There‘s no way that I‘ll buy this phone.
I bought an X at an Apple Store in Sydney last Thursday, having logged in at 6am
it took several days of this to complete a purchase, and phones were never available at more than two places
putting a phone into a ‘bag’ doesn’t reserve it - someone else might have also done that and then complete the purchase, and then it’s gone
there’s better queuing software around
it took several days of this to complete a purchase, and phones were never available at more than two places
putting a phone into a ‘bag’ doesn’t reserve it - someone else might have also done that and then complete the purchase, and then it’s gone
there’s better queuing software around
That plus the fact they're selling two new phones this year and certainly a lot of people are buying the 8 series because they're not sure about the X or think the cost is high (which it is). I feel if they had released only the X this year we'd still be seeing shipping times out more than a couple of weeks.
The Singapore store here gets a regular supply of them for in-store purchase, I like to think Apple ensure its stores are well-served, but they certainly sell out within an hour or so of being available.
They seem to be selling them as fast as they are making them and I see no reason they aren't making them as fast as they can do that. If yesterday's article is correct and they really are building 500,000 of them a day, that's a lot of phones getting shipped.
Hmmm let's see.
$1529.00 (iPhone X 256GB) + $249.00 (Apple care) = $1778 + tax (13%) = $2009.14
Starbucks pays $15/hr, so with government cost of living taxes, take home is about $11.40/hr
That would take me ~ 176 hours of work, over a month. And there are only 3.5 weeks till Christmas.
I wonder if I can take over someone else's shifts.
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$1529.00 (iPhone X 256GB) + $249.00 (Apple care) = $1778 + tax (13%) = $2009.14
Starbucks pays $15/hr, so with government cost of living taxes, take home is about $11.40/hr
That would take me ~ 176 hours of work, over a month. And there are only 3.5 weeks till Christmas.
I wonder if I can take over someone else's shifts.
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Amen.. same here.. good thing is they are sometimes going lower than 1K already on eBay...you should be able to get a 256 for around 800 or lower in a couple of months.. not many people are willing to pay 1K plus for a phone
I have no doubt that you are right, but the result is just as pointless.
Going on to a site to complain about something you are not going to buy?
Spending time on This site is pointless enough for me..getting on Samsungs site or some other site to complain about prices or
whatever? Sorry I have a job.
They get their inventory data from Apple.com It's tied into it.
The reason you're seeing available is because it IS available throughout the day, but will be gone by the evening. The time you check absolutely matters. I can check every day at 12pm and it will look like they have stock because they get new stock in daily.
My point is they are selling out all the new stock every single day by the end of the day.
If you need a phone that displays 4k content, you have other problems
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It can do two apps, but maybe not in the way you want. Side by side on a phone?
No thanks, I'll use my iPad for that.
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If I considered the BmW series 3 to be the best when I went to buy, of course I would buy it.
Would I waste my time complaining about it if I weren't going to buy it? NOpE
I'd have bought what I considered to be better. Life is too short.
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iPhone X is an acquired taste for me. I can at least see why folks would be excited about it, but I'm just gonna chill out with my 8 Plus.
If you need a phone that displays 4k content, you have other problems
Can you read? Because I never said I needed a phone that could play 4K. I pointed out that the X cannot play 4K iTunes content.
Stock may be improving, but very selectively. There is not a T-Mobile 256 Silver available to a walk-in customer anywhere in Southern California. Since I'm hoping to join the iPhone Upgrade Program, I have to find one I can walk in and buy, and I've had zero luck since I lined up at 5 am on launch day. I'm learning patience.
Glad it works for you, and you are happy.
This is after all a forum, for people's opinions , people that complain about people complaining are in fact in the wrong place .
You can have 4K OLED and Non-OLED TVs, yet the OLED ones will be more expensive. This has nothing to do with whether or not the iPhone plays 4K movies. Just the sheer fact that OLED is more expensive at the moment. People already knew that before the X even came out.
That you don't consider Face ID a premium is - again - your very personal preference. Other people do. Besides, the technology is all new and lightyears ahead of Samsung.
You do pay for that when buying an iPhone X. Not only the usage. But people don't get that.
Let’s be real iPhone X is not some luxury item as anyone can actually get it. I am starting to think you are really Angela Ahrendts because at the end of the day it is just a phone.
The additional pomp and circumstance you are applying to it makes as if it’s something that can elevate humanity to the next level.
Supply chain reports Apple are manufacturing 15 million per month, and Apple has provided guidance for a record breaking quarter.
How does that translate to “just too expensive” and “no one wants to pay for it”?
It is accessible.
By people who can afford it.
Make enough money and the price becomes a non starter.
It doesn't. They are just hating.
Apple retail has been sold out at the end of every day for 21 days straight. Production has ramped, which is a good thing for customers and investors.
I will eat crow if the January earnings announcement is bad.