Considering the processing power is closing in, in a much more compact form factor to boot, I don't see why not.
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The 2017 iPhone Could Cost Upwards of $1,000
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I think they are going to do a 7S, 7S Plus and an 8 this year. The 8 will be the one that tops out over a grand, and about $149-$189 per storage tier more than the other 2. It will cost Apple an extra $18 to make, so they can jack margins. It will be the ONLY one to have the amoled screen, wrap around "5.8 inches" and wireless charging. The 7S and 7SP will just be the S versions of what we have now. They won't get anything but a chip and camera update. Not even wireless charging.
I can pretty guarantee I'll be quoting this post in September for being dead on accurate.
I can pretty guarantee I'll be quoting this post in September for being dead on accurate.
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....and if we all owned Apple we would of course reduce margins to the minimum possible. We would also throw out environmental disaster phones en masse at really cheap prices, so we have no profits and be in line with other competitors.
That way consumers can sleep at night knowing we are just there to make sure they have a lot of money left for everything else they want.
It's a good thing businesses only exist not to make money or make only as much as somebody who doesn't even know the real costs tells us.
Oh, and we would also make sure there is world peace!
Wow, in China expensive things are status symbols??
Neato, mister. I hope I get to travel there & see that some day!!
Sounds WILD & hard to imagine! I'm from the United States; here nobody is ostentatious... you never see people wear a Rolex or drive a Ferrari as a status symbol. That must only be a thing "in places like China".
Do you have any other interesting tidbits that you could share with us about their culture and how vastly different it is than ours? I love hearing divisive things about other cultures from "people in the know".
/HEAVY dose of sarcasm
What´s your point? Cook is the best CEO Apple ever had, making the rich shareholders even richer. Are you a commie? Don´t you understand and love how capitalism works?
But from any point of view Cook is by far better than Jobs ever was with his mobileme, antennagate, "i finally cracked it" (yeah, sure you did..) failures.
And he put in Tim Cook as CEO. I mean....oh...wait....
This is BS. The phone is basically a more expensive, currently available, Android phone.
If they are truly going to release two phones, a 4th gen iPhone 6 and the "8", I hope that Samsung and the other Android phones out there do better than Apple. They have gotten greedy.
If they are truly going to release two phones, a 4th gen iPhone 6 and the "8", I hope that Samsung and the other Android phones out there do better than Apple. They have gotten greedy.
Do tell!
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haha read this for the 1001st time now in like 5 years...
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So it is not the price of the 6s or 7, you just like the small SE so much. Somehow you are saying both and that makes no sense.
erm....yes...this is why we like bigger screens..but have fun with your SE.
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haha look at that commie that would like to love capitalism!
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I find it amusing how many people with an iPhone 7+ are complaining about a $1000 iPhone. Prices for the 7+ START at $770. When one can justify nearly $800 for a phone, $1000 isn't that much of a stretch.
For me, ($150 for a Sharp Aquos Crystal and then $350 for a 64GB iPhone SE) $770 is as insane as $1000.
Perspective people!
For me, ($150 for a Sharp Aquos Crystal and then $350 for a 64GB iPhone SE) $770 is as insane as $1000.
Perspective people!
That price makes sense only if the iPhone can do as much as a desktop or laptop. Make the new iPhone able to run MacOS with a separate monitor, keyboard, and mouse while in a dock and it'd be worth that money.
Like I said. The bigger the outburst, the more you know Apple is doing something right.
I hope you get the chance to go there so you will understand what I mean. It wasn't divisive it is just the way it is.
wrong on literally all counts.
Exactly! Especially since I paid around $1k for my current 6s Plus and use this phone more than any other electronic product I own. As soon as the anniversary phone rumors came up, I knew what we were in store for. I simply can't wait.
This might be ok if people kept their phones several years, but I think a lot of people get new phone yearly. So I guess it may depend on the resale value. Still electronics in general have tended to gradually come down in price, not go up other than maybe a brand new first year run at a new technology like when OLED TV's came out. And as far as OLED screens on phones, well they have been out for a few years and cheap ones at that, so that's not a good excuse.
I agree with most of everything you posted, but I'm finding it hard to think why Apple would do a wrap around display? from what i've seen and heard the S7 Edge isn't very useful at this when it comes to using the edge part of the display, so unless Apple have found a way of making it useful or they have other ideas, i find it very hard to believe.
Processing power closing in? The heck are you smoking? The fastest ARM chip barely scrapes Intel's lowest tier chips.
I will most likely use the two feet rule: I will turn around, use my two feet and walk away.
I'm clearly not rich enough to stay part of the Apple family.
I'm clearly not rich enough to stay part of the Apple family.
With what..? Massive iphone sales and mega profits plus Apple shares going through the roof..?
<begin satire> A car company makes premium cars. They introduce a super-car line with more expensive, extra-premium technology because there is a market for it. Much of the new technology makes it into the existing line, which is very competitive with the competition. Somehow that makes the car company evil. <end satire>
I paid $299 for my iPhone 6 64GB, why the hell would I pay multiple times that for my next phone? It better be covered with pixie dust and a beautiful girl to read me my emails. Not going to happen.
You are so wrong...the Oled screed on the S7 edge is beautiful, the Battery life is soon much better, the camera "actually" performs well in low light. Fingerprint scanner is the only thing the iPhone does better, and that is fixed with Nougat. Dual Speakers are a nice to have but certainly not a selling point. The physical back button is far more intuitive than scanning the screen for a digital back button. Waterproofing, UI customisation if you need it,.....yawn the list goes on. iPhone 7 doesn't hold a candle to the S7 Edge and i personally can't see the iPhone 8 even competing with what samsung have on the market now. This isn't even up for debate at this point the new flagship Android phones ARE better!
I've actually stuck with the 6 for the same reason. This may be what sends me over to the Google Pixel. I'm just not willing to pay more for an iPhone than I paid for a PC. It's become very apparent over the last year or two that Apple is no longer interested in having me as a customer, and I'm actually ok with that now.
Lol @ 22 pages of people who no longer have subsidized plans and have suddenly realized that the iPhone is priced like a mini-computer (BECAUSE IT IS A MINI-COMPUTER). OMG WHY DOESN'T IT COST $200 NEVAR BUYING ANOTHER IPHONE F U APPLE.
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