Apple warranty after one year

grumbler

It's not about just the operating system.
Let's admit it, iPhone quality is really good.
The main problem is "value for money" and that the huge proportion of this one billion simply can't afford paying this sort of price for this quality that they don't need in the first place. It just makes no sense to take a three year loan, (very common and usually very expensive), for some good-quality toy.

Plus paying through the nose for all sorts of insurances for this toy.

mrochester

grumbler wrote: »

It's not about just the operating system.
Let's admit it, iPhone quality is really good.
The main problem is "value for money" and that the huge proportion of this one billion simply can't afford paying this sort of price for this quality that they don't need in the first place. It just makes no sense to take a three year loan, (very common and usually very expensive), for some good-quality toy.

Plus paying through the nose for all sorts of insurances for this toy.

The iPhone is excellent value for money. It has a billion users operating system and ecosystem of choice on it. Buying an android phone for those users would be poor value for money as it’s not what they like or want.

It’s like saying buying a 50p bar of chocolate you hate is better value for money than buying a £1 bar you love.

Buying something you don’t like or want for is never good value for money. Getting the cheapest deal of what you DO want is good value for money.

grumbler

mrochester wrote: »

Buying something you don’t like or want for is never good value for money. Getting the cheapest deal of what you DO want is good value for money.

Yeah
We all have to drive Jaguars and LandRovers then. Or Porsche?
For most of us life is always some sort of compromise.


And it's just a mobile phone !!!!!!. I can easily buy any iPhone/Samsung outright, but my £150 phone does absolutely everything I need and even more - and it doesn't need any insurance. That's why it's beyond my understanding why would anybody take an expensive loan for a mobile phone.


And yes, it's absolutely fine to pay any price IF you have a lot of money to splash and don't have more important things to spend it on.

mrochester

grumbler wrote: »

Yeah
We all have to drive Jaguars and LandRovers then. Or Porsche?
For most of us life is always some sort of compromise.


And it's just a mobile phone !!!!!!. I can easily buy any iPhone/Samsung outright, but my £150 phone does absolutely everything I need and even more - and it doesn't need any insurance. That's why it's beyond my understanding why would anybody take an expensive loan for a mobile phone.


And yes, it's absolutely fine to pay any price IF you have a lot of money to splash.

If you like a cheaper product, great! But buying a cheaper product you don’t like is not a wise move.

grumbler

"like" and "don't like" are too vague terms.
Well, you are really a happy (or very reach) person if you leave in your dream house in your dream location, drive your dream car, fly in business class, .... and play with your dream mobile phone.

mrochester

grumbler wrote: »

"like" and "don't like" are too vague terms.
Well, you are really a happy (or very reach) person if you leave in your dream house in your dream location, drive your dream car, fly in business class, .... and play with your dream mobile phone.

Well they aren’t vague to the individual; they know what they like and they know what they don’t like for the most part. It’s only when you haven’t tried something that you can’t say you know what you like or don’t like, like the vast number of android users who say they don’t like the iPhone having never tried one.

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mrochester wrote: »

The iPhone is excellent value for money. It has a billion users operating system and ecosystem of choice on it. Buying an android phone for those users would be poor value for money as it’s not what they like or want.

It’s like saying buying a 50p bar of chocolate you hate is better value for money than buying a £1 bar you love.

Buying something you don’t like or want for is never good value for money. Getting the cheapest deal of what you DO want is good value for money.

It's claimed there are around 700 million iPhone users worldwide so I don't understand why you keep rounding it up to a billion (well, I do know of course).

If the 50p bar of chocolate is exactly the same as the £1 bar then it makes the people buying the £1 bar pretty dumb wouldn't you agree?

I actually know people who won't shop at the Asda and are happier paying more for the same box of Kellogg's Cornflakes at a snobbier store. Some people are just weird.

d123

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

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If the 50p bar of chocolate is exactly the same as the £1 bar then it makes the people buying the £1 bar pretty dumb wouldn't you agree?

Except no two brands of phone are exactly the same...

mrochester

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

It's claimed there are around 700 million iPhone users worldwide so I don't understand why you keep rounding it up to a billion (well, I do know of course).

If the 50p bar of chocolate is exactly the same as the £1 bar then it makes the people buying the £1 bar pretty dumb wouldn't you agree?

I actually know people who won't shop at the Asda and are happier paying more for the same box of Kellogg's Cornflakes at a snobbier store. Some people are just weird.

If the 50p bar and £1 bar were exactly the same, it would be silly to buy the £1 bar.

But your comparison makes no sense because android and iOS are not the same. You aren’t comparing like for like.

grumbler

mrochester wrote: »

... like the vast number of android users who say they don’t like the iPhone having never tried one.

I am Android user.
I don't say that I don't like iPhone and I don't want to try it simply because I don't want to pay more for a device that does essentially the same as my current one that I am happy with.

Also, I am unlikely to buy it (even if I wanted) because of the hype surrounding it. Similarly, I am unlikely to buy Dyson - because of the hype in the first place.