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Only RICH WHITE MEN buy iPhone 6's ??

CoilTap said:
Uh, since when is $75k/yr "rich?"
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Exactly, I sure as hell don't feel rich.

And I'm not white either....so there's that too.

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Jill1228 said:
Last time I checked, I am a black female. :rolleyes: I am Getting the 6+
I guess the article might apply to me though...the purchaser is a white guy who makes decent money...my anti Apple,Droid carrying, software engineer husband :D
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You owe him big for forcing him to defy his very nature and buy you something from Apple ;)
 
Curious to know what everyone considers rich?

You need 199$ down and credit to be able to get an iphone.

Or 749$ to buy the base phone outright.


Not exactly an absurd amount of money that makes the phone only available to the worlds elite.

Cloudsurfer said:
I would only call myself rich if I had enough money to live off of interest.
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You get it.
 
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I am apparently dirt poor but I am also a white woman and I have a 6+, not a 6! This story is ridiculous!

As for some other comments made in this thread, I know some were made tongue in cheek but I have been shaking my head at others... My husband did not order our phones nor did he set up our account, I DID! It is in his name only because we get an employee discount through his employer but I do everything on the account including purchasing new phones.

I was 5th in line at Verizon the morning of release. The first 2 were middle aged white guys, probably middle class based on how they were dressed and what they were driving. The third guy was a very young white guy and fourth was a young white woman, also both probably low middle class. I'm low middle class based on this story (I don't know if I personally know anyone who makes $75,000/year around here other than doctors and lawyers and the lawyer I used to work for didn't make that!) The guy who was 6th in line was probably the closest to being a rich white guy in the early line, judging again based on what he drove and how he was dressed.

Of course, I drive a Mustang, carry a Coach purse, and talk on my iPhone 6 Plus so many people assume I am rich. LOL! What they don't realize is that yes it is a Mustang but it's a base model with no extras. Yes it is a Coach purse but it was purchased on sale the day after Thanksgiving at the Coach outlet and cost about what a nice purse at Sears or JC Penney would cost, maybe even less. So basically what I am saying is you can't always judge a book by its cover. Of course, that is exactly what I did above! Oh, well, I'll stop rambling now and go back to enjoying my beautiful phone!
 
AppleDApp said:
Curious to know what everyone considers rich?

You need 199$ down and credit to be able to get an iphone.

Or 749$ to buy the base phone outright.


Not exactly an absurd amount of money that makes the phone only available to the worlds elite.
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Actually, if you're on AT&T, you dont even need the $199 (with the Next plan).

Lets see, Rich? I think someone else posted about being able to live off interest. For me, Rich is something like that. I think when you have enough money where you don't need to work... Where you can retire comfortably no matter what age you are. THAT's rich. If you have to get up and go make a paycheck to pay your bills... you aren't rich.

Either that, or if you are white and own an iPhone 6 I guess...
 
I'm a white old guy 65 years old,retired,on a fixed income and have a iphone6 ,64g, have a roof over my head and food on the table and in my opinion that makes me rich.
 
I'm 24, black, and have a iPhone 6... O_O I upgrade annually, normally buy it unlocked but this time had a 2 year upgrade. Also saw a hispanic man yesterday in a riced out Civic with a silver 6. And a mixed girl on a train launch day with it.

INFACT, I actually haven't seen any WHITE PEOPLE with it yet LMFAO -__-
 
Cloudsurfer said:
I earn only 30K a year and I have no problems buying an iPhone. Wealth is only relative. Someone with 80K can have a hard time getting by if he/she has several mouths to feed and a mortgage to pay.

I would only call myself rich if I had enough money to live off of interest.
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appleii.c said:
Actually, if you're on AT&T, you dont even need the $199 (with the Next plan).

Lets see, Rich? I think someone else posted about being able to live off interest. For me, Rich is something like that. I think when you have enough money where you don't need to work... Where you can retire comfortably no matter what age you are. THAT's rich. If you have to get up and go make a paycheck to pay your bills... you aren't rich.

Either that, or if you are white and own an iPhone 6 I guess...
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Absolutely agree. Also being 100% debt free would qualify.
 
These stats are straight BS. You don't know the color of someone or how rich they are when they order a product online. Hell you don't even know how rich they are when they go buy the phone in store.
 
I'm a black full time college student. I don't make much but I can afford an iPhone (I can pay the phone off in like 4 months if I wanted to). But I did edge because it would've been easier than just shelling out $300 all at once. I still need to feed myself and pay my small bills. I also don't have a car (can't get one ). So I save.
 
I'm not a rich white man (I wish) however I plan on selling 5s for around the $650 NZD mark and then paying the difference for a base model 6.

I'll do the same next year with the 6s and so on.
 
Not rich but I do make the 75k baseline- here in California many people do-we are still mid level middle class.

I am not a white man.. I am a black woman. I normally buy the iPhones on release day every year.
 
Small White Car said:
It is, by definition, "above average." (The average U.S. salary is about $50k.)

Totally fair to apply the word "rich" to that, then. You could obviously break it down more and give more levels, but if it's a simple yes/no, rich/not equation than anything over average clearly gets the 'rich' label.



You have intentionally distorted the article with your thread title.

It's pretty clearly saying that white men are early adopters, not that they are the only ones who will own the iPhone 6. They even mention that the numbers are similar to when the 5S was new and those numbers evened out over time.

In other words, the article says exactly what a lot of posters here are saying. But they think they disagree with the article because you've made it sound like it's saying something it's not.
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Damn. I'm so close to being "rich"

Lol
 
For the life of me, I can't understand why CNN would waste the energy to even actually research this let alone report it. It's insulting to everyone and who ****ing cares.
 
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