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Beaten to it!! 😆
A way to reproduce the brown note?
Because you know I'm all about that b[b]ass[/b],
'Bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], no treble
I'm all 'bout that b[b]ass[/b], 'bout that b[b]ass[/b]
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
^^^ 'kin 'ell
£1000 quid plus a contract of say £250pa for something (smartphone) that didn't exist 20 years ago
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
Same processing power* as a £1000 desktop from 5 years ago.
*probably.
£1000 quid plus a contract of say £250pa for something a lot of far, far cheaper options have been doing for ages
Waterproof? Sony, Motorola et al.
Wireless headphones? Well, apart from a general meh from the world, bluetooth headphones have been around ages.
Etc.
Still, it's iNew and iShiny so let's overlook the iExpense and iBuy the iShinynewthing.
Our XP 'outer died years ago. Our 2009 MacBook is hanging on by a thread, just able to cope with running the OS. So over breakfast Mrs K has decided we "need" an IMac 27". Not least cause kjo1 at 7yo is using a 'puter at school and needs to google for homework. Only £1850, a bargain :-/
£919 for the 256GB 7 Plus...nearly £1000 for a Phone...
Not setting on fire, priceless.
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All I can say my Apple kit works far better and lasts far longer than anything I have had from Nokia/Samsung/running windows. Now I appreciat that G3 looks great value but like millions of other users Iam fully signed up for the Apple ecosystem, my iPhone 6 will have cost me £25 a month if I change it now and assume its worthless or more like £15 if I sell it. I will keep it till 8 comes out so probably it will have cost me £10 a month. I can afford that.
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my iPhone 6 will have cost me £25 a month if I change it now and assume its worthless or more like £15 if I sell it. I will keep it till 8 comes out so probably it will have cost me £10 a month. I can afford that.
In reality you could get anywhere up to £350, maybe even more for a 6+:
The resale value of an iPhone tends to stay pretty high, so assuming you could get £350 for a 6/6+ in top-notch condition, a new 250Gb iP7 is going to cost roughly £600, about what a Galaxy Note 7 would cost, possibly not including optional TPF&T insurance...
All I can say my Apple kit works far better and lasts far longer than anything I have had from Nokia/Samsung/running windows.
How much of that stuff had you had in the last 3 years?
Again windows machines lasting 5+ years, mobiles doing a job for the cost invested.
Here is a quick finance lesson...
If you're paying £300 more for something to get a £300 increase on resale value it's deposit not a saving.
Also if the answer is I need a 256gb Iphone to keep all my music with me at all times perhaps rethink the question and find a nice music player that will hold everything and keep that for multiple years and replace the phone with a smaller model that doesn't charge you 4x the storage cost 😉
who dares say that apple havent innovated anything since thethe clickwheel ?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/apple-patent-recycled-paper-bag?CMP=fb_gu
If any PC manufacturer actually manages to make a computer that runs as well as and is such a joy to use as an Apple product I will gladly switch back.
was tempted, then i saw the price, then was tempted by the 6S, and again, way too much money. i was out of contract, and liked my 5S, for size and functionality, other than the crappy 16gb storage, and its recently poor performance, so upgraded free to a 64gb SE, and reduced monthly payments by a tenner.
sorted.
If you're paying £300 more for something to get a £300 increase on resale value it's deposit not a saving.
Also if the answer is I need a 256gb Iphone to keep all my music with me at all times perhaps rethink the question and find a nice music player that will hold everything and keep that for multiple years and replace the phone with a smaller model that doesn't charge you 4x the storage cost
But you're not buying it to get the increase in resale value, that's a fringe benefit that you won't get with other makes, even an iP5 can still fetch £150, so it's just worth factoring in the fact that you could knock £350 off the price of a SIM-free iP7 just by looking after a device you would probably bought anyway.
And a decent, high capacity music player isn't going to be cheap: the Fiio X7, which only has 27Gb native capacity, and a space for a 128Gb card, giving you about the same capacity as the now defunct iPod Classic 180Gb, which was £180, will cost £459!
Then you're carrying two devices around, to do the job of one that will do everything, the total cost of which will be more than the cost of the one device, once you've factored in the money obtained from selling an older model.
This is something that people have been doing, quite successfully, I might add, with their cars, so why can't you accept that the same model applies in this case?
It's really quite simple, people buy a high-quality product that's much in demand, that demand dictates there's a good-sized market for said devices that are pre-owned, in good condition, people who wish to upgrade, for whatever reason can sell their older device and get a good deal on it, allowing them to get a hefty discount on the newer device.
This is quite simple to understand, people have been doing it for many years with all sorts of commodities, so I shouldn't have to explain how it works.
@mike Top level Samsung's are pretty much the same price as an iPhone and don't hold their value as well. Just bought an android phone for the FIL he won't entertain an Apple replacement for his 4S so we got an £85 job. He only needs calls, whatsap and a few news apps. Pretty flimsy construction but screen seems pretty good.
I buy my phones for flexibility, pay £18pm for three unlimited 4g and Europe is included free too. Add on phone cost/resale and I think its pretty affordable.
Just saying, randomly but a friend of mine just bought the latest Samsung - S7?
The photo's are outstanding, knocking my 6s into the shade a lot.