If they want to liquidate the remaining stock quick, they should lower it at least $200. Then again, Apple will try to squeeze out as much as people are going to pay.
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iPhone XS Series Models Now $100 Cheaper at Apple Retail Stores
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What exactly do you need from the new phone, which the 7 can’t handle? It will also get iOS 13 and at least iOS 14, so it should be good for the next 2 years. You can change the battery on your own for about $30-50 which is quite easy to do. Which feature of iOS 13 are you missing, which is not available on the 7?
This is a poor value imo. A $700 iPhone 11 is a lot more attractive, especially with features like night mode. I mean it would be funny if a $900 phone takes worse picture than a $700 phone. There's a reason Apple discontinued it. The pricing doesn't make sense, unless one values the OLED screen so much more than the improvements the A13 brings.
Let's milk them as much as possible Tim!
Meanwhile, trade-in value for the XS Max 512GB is purely insulting.
Meanwhile, trade-in value for the XS Max 512GB is purely insulting.
i have iOS 13.1 beta loaded on an 8 plus, and 3D Touch works like it has always worked. What are you talking about?
Mind you, I always found it clumsy implemented.
Mind you, I always found it clumsy implemented.
It does not. Touch sensitive is not adjustable in settings. It’s a placebo. Also, in iOS 13 any light touch activates 3D Touch. It’s annoying.
If you can switch carriers, AT&T is doing BOGO(up to $750 off). $750 off the second phone, plus $300 gift card. That is pretty tempting.
Of course any time one trades things in one has to expect the company will be fairly conservative in pricing but still that is borderline insulting. I would just keep it unless you have a big need for the new phone. If enough people refuse to play ball then Apple will listen - they cut prices in China for example as the Chinese won't go along with price gouging and they had to drop the price on the XR, in India stores sell phones at lower than official prices to let Apple save face but find customers through things like big cash back schemes linked to credit cards etc. It must have meant one less ivory back scratcher for Angela Ahrendts but reports suggest she managed to just about get by with her pay of $24 million. No wonder she had to leave in search of more money.
Apple's pricing in Britain is consistently, even when accounting for taxes and currency fluctuations, higher than for the US. And you know that when the currency fluctuation goes the other way there will be no concomitant price reduction. Then again, for some reason Apple feels their success depends on Tim Cook being paid $136 million last year so that he can virtue signal on twitter about "equality" - that money has to come from somewhere!
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And I'm here looking how much prices dropped on 6, and if I buy one I'm keeping it for about 5 years.
Same boat. Just don't see enough of a gap to warrant getting rid of my 128GB 7+. At least for the things I use the phone for.
And I want a new iPad but don't want to deal with one that uses the gen 1 Apple Pencil. Still sticking with my iPad Air 2 for now.
Apples new subscription model....£700 a year to use an iPhone XS
Actually, it's not. Only estimates are available. Apple stopped reporting it when sales declined.
I have the same problem as you, I am on the iPhone 7 and it is already giving me battery troubles I make 3 calls and from 100 it goes down to 30%, updating to iOS 12 messed up everything.
Galaxy s10 seems like the perfect phone, that's how the new iPhone should have been but I am used to iOS and I just don't like the android interface. The current new phones are too expensive and not worth the price. The place where I live the XS was for $1500 and now after the 11 has released it has come down to $1200.
I am going to see what they will release in March next year, I hope its a new SE with the latest internals and not iPhone 8 internals otherwise I am going to wait for the iPhone 2022 which I will buy in 2023 when the price goes down......
Your phone is only outdated when it can’t do what you need it to do.
Signed, a happy 6S owner.
There's some rumours of a SE2 Iphone next year. Based on Iphone 7 externals and like X or 11 internals. A budget phone for like 500 dollars or something. If this is true this will probably be my next phone. I loved my SE just want a slightly bigger display.
For Apple $100 it is 'good' as they don't want to protect they were tradings - the carriers and 3rd party vendors (Bestbuy, Walmart, etc.) will likely be more aggressive and have more specials coming soon.
You're unable to pick up a perfectly fine 11 because you don't... like the look?
Hard to feel sorry for you mate. Put a case and a screen protector on it FFS.
In HU the phone costs around 1300 EUR the. At that price well at least should look OK because that Ugly notch on the screen also ain’t cutting for me at that price range.
Keep your iPhone 7. Get a new battery when the current one isn’t serviceable. The iPhone 6s was my favorite (128GB Space Gray). Unfortunately, I left it on an airplane.
I had replaced the battery in it twice and got the screen replaced once. I still love that iPhone the most. At 4.7” it just fit in the hand nicely. It was fast. It was a world phone. And it even had a headphone jack.
Now, I have the Xs Max. I cannot stand the notch. I loath looking at my iPhone. I try to not look up. I try everything to unsee it or forget but two years in I still see it all the time.
I would hang onto that iPhone 7 if I were you. Love it and appreciate all the good tech until something happens to force an upgrade. Next year, hopefully, the notch problem will be solved. The iPhones will get bigger and smaller at opposite ends. The screens will all get the same tech. Hopefully, we will get USB C. The USB C would be nice to backup files, but I am not as concerned as some people with having a one-cable solution. The AirPods and PowerBeats Pro both need Lightning.
So wait for next year. This year was rather unexciting with exception to the battery life. That is the only feature I would have loved on my iPhone Max. It dies before the end of the day, sometimes even with the battery case.