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The XR has the best battery life of any iPhone, and apparently some of the best battery life of any phone of this current generation. It comes in about even with the Note 9.

Apple makes approximately the same margins on their phones now as they ever have. Consider that the iPhone 3Gs was released in 2009 for $599. In today's money, that's a bit over $700, so just shy of the $750 that the XR costs.

Retail prices have crept up—and we can argue over whether Apple's prices should've crept up, given that many of the components must have come down in price over time, though they also always try to have some new stuff in there every year as well—but they haven't actually increased all that much. We tend to forget about inflation, but it affects tech companies too.

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But maybe the real question here is whether we feel that we're getting the same value for money that we once did. The iPhone 4 felt like the future. The phones of today simply feel like what we've always had. Is the problem the phones or our expectations?

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