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Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com)
As we near the launch of the next iPhone, rumors are swirling about what it may feature. One of the most recent reports comes from developer and blogger John Gruber, who claims the iPhone 8 will have a starting price of around $1200. 9to5Mac reports: He last week said that he believed that what we've been referring to as the iPhone 8 would be called the iPhone Pro and that he actually hoped it would be really expensive: "I hope the iPhone Pro starts at $1500 or higher. I'd like to see what Apple can do in a phone with a higher price." As you might imagine, that generated quite a bit of discussion. Gruber has backed down somewhat from this position, and is now suggesting a starting point of around $1200: "$1,500 as a starting price is probably way too high. But I think $1,200 is quite likely as the starting price, with the high-end model at $1,300 or $1,400." His argument is effectively that Apple is constrained in what it can do in a phone because any technology included in the phone has to be available in huge volumes. If it were willing to sell fewer at a higher price, then it would have more options. There has been speculation that Gruber may have been tipped by Apple, and using his posts to prepare the ground for what would otherwise be a severe case of sticker shock. But Gruber denied this. If Apple does launch the iPhone 8 with a 4-figure price tag, would you buy it?
I wouldn't buy it at $200, why would I buy it at $1,200?
No, I would not buy the iPhone.
No. I would not buy one for 5$.
I am opposed to the basic principles of the Apple ecosystem--
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device? Be prepared to deal with proprietary audio formats, having to use the itunes backup feature to push the 3rd party re-encoded tune to the phone, and having to wade through literally thousands of paid endorsements to buy ringtones when you try to look up how to do it. OR-- you could just get an android phone, push any supported media file (which are industry standard formats) into the RINGTONES folder, then pick it.
Perhaps you want to do something else, like say-- play a gameboy game on your device? Oh-- sorry, no. Apple does not allow virtualized software to run on iDevices. :( It makes apple sad pandas, and they wont let those dangerous, nasty applications into the app store. It is for YOUR protection, citizen!
Why the fuck would I want a device that bends over backwards to STOP me from using it, EXCEPT in the shamelessly commercialized way the creators envisioned?
Fuck that noise.
The iPhone is not made to last, the battery cannot be replaced, it cannot be opened by a normal person and be repaired or upgraded.
The battery cannot be replaced? I don't know about the iPhone 8, because nobody has ever seen it, but battery replacement like screen replacement are on Apple's official price list. If they are on the price list, I'd assume the battery can be replaced.
And Apple has this thing called "out of warranty repair": If you have an older iPhone, let's say an iPhone 6 with broken screen and broken battery and whatever else is wrong, Apple will replace it with an equivalent refurbished phone for about half the cost of the base model. My wife's first iPhone was an iPhone 4s with a broken screen that she was given for free, and replaced with a new one at the Apple Store for £140.
Ever tried to make your own ringtone for an apple device?
I had to make a ringtone for my wife's phone. Can't remember the exact steps (googling may have been involved), but there wasn't anything difficult about it. Just the first 20 seconds of a song from a CD that I had ripped into iTunes. And I used AAC, not Apple Lossless, so there were no proprietary formats used.
Pseudo-elitist dreams of being slightly more elitist without having to leave their conformist comfort zone.
what he really means is 'every kid on the block has an iphone these days, I pine for when I felt more special, so make a more expensive model so I can separate myself from the unwashed masses again (but actually I am a closet conformist, so it needs to be from my regular supplier, work in the same way - so please just make it cost more so I can buy myself a bit more 'special'..).
Believing that Apple is somehow constrained by price or volume is laughably laughable, they already delivery less for more and have demonstrated a willingness to have availability shortages (in fact historically have done it with a sense of pride during notable releases).
[Stands back to watch the koolaid drinkers backlash against reality]
Special app? You mean iTunes? You make a ringtone in iTunes, the only "hard" part is you rename the file from a .m4a extension to a .m4r extension, then use iTunes to move it to your phone. You don't need any special app to "import" it to the phone, you just use iTunes.
I have taught 80-year-old people how to do this.
Sorry you hate Apple enough that you never looked up how to do it?
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
Can you hook up your iPhone on any and as many computers as you need or is it still tied in to your computer with your iTunes?
If it still tied into iTunes you still need a special app to import a ringtone. Unlike android I can hook it up to any computer and add my ringtone.
False comparison is false.
It is possible to run an android device without google's application support framework (Gapps). One can use Amazon's store instead, for instance.
That means you dont need a google account to use the phone. Likewise, you dont need to download proprietary and beligerant software to manipulate the files on the phone. One can use any computer that supports MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) to manipulate the files in the device. This includes Linux and MacOSX. One can also do this directly with the phone itself, if an appropriate file manager is installed. (Again, can be done using a 3rd party app store, or even side loaded directly, using the MTP protocol to transfer the installer package .apk to the handset's storage, and installed using ADB.)
Compare to apple devices, which go out of their way to make any access to the device very restricted, self-manipulation of the device's filesystem by applications nearly impossible, and the use of a highly proprietary interface protocol (whatever the fuck iTunes uses).
In order to get iTunes, you need to go through Apple. You NEED iTunes to push the ringtone to the phone. There *IS NO OTHER PATH* unless you jailbreak the device.
Compare with android, where you can give google the finger, use entirely FOSS software to push the ringtone into the phone's memory, and even manipulate the phone's memory right on the phone on the go--
FALSE COMPARISON IS FALSE, AC.