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johny328i

macrumors regular
Mar 27, 2016
156
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Bulgaria
One of the things I still can't understand... In my country, the average monthly salary is like ~600-700$ in smaller cities, and like 1000-1100$ in bigger ones. AVERAGE.

Having that in mind, you can see X/Xs/Max in the hands of every 4th or 5th person around 25 yrs old.

How can someone in US cannot afford a 1000$ phone, with monthly salary of like 4000$?
 

Aydy

macrumors 6502a
Nov 22, 2015
627
452
One of the things I still can't understand... In my country, the average monthly salary is like ~600-700$ in smaller cities, and like 1000-1100$ in bigger ones. AVERAGE.

Having that in mind, you can see X/Xs/Max in the hands of every 4th or 5th person around 25 yrs old.

How can someone in US cannot afford a 1000$ phone, with monthly salary of like 4000$?
Mostly everyone I know owns an iPhone of some sort. I live in a kinda run down area and even the druggies and drunks who are always on the take are always poking away at their iPhones.

Gone are the days when an iPhone was related to status and/or income, and rightly so imo.
The used (second hand) market has made them accessible to all these days.
 
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