Apple iPhone 2017 Event - September 12th - Discussion Thread

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mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

How much is this piece of poo poo going to cost me if I'm Verizon upgrade eligible?

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mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

There is no lower price for buying these phones when you have an upgrade available?

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 20:06

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Don Lapre posted:

In the US nobody does upgrades anymore. its all payment plans.

That is horseshit.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 20:07

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Mahoning posted:

Uhhhhhhhh.....

I knew this poo poo wasn't dead.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2017 20:12

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AlternateAccount posted:

The lack of subsidization is kind of interesting. The raw, unfiltered $1000 buttfuck of actual phone pricing will be difficult for a lot of people, regardless of means.

The hardware of the phone costs probably like 70 bucks. It's really stunning that they think enough people will pay the grand.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 14:20

mcmagic: Jul 1, 2004; If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

You also just get NOTHING for signing up for a 2 year contract anymore which is also ridiculous.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 14:37

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Mahoning posted:

I mean, I'm not sure if anybody has explained this to you, I'm sure they have. So you know the only reason they were giving you like ~$200 off a phone for signing a 2-year contract was because they were baking that $200+ into the plans themselves? When I worked for Sprint like 8 or 10 years ago, an unlimited plan was $99 PER LINE. And that was with lovely 3G data. It was also the cheapest unlimited plan (actually the only unlimited plan for awhile) you could get. Now, you can get unlimited for 2 lines on Sprint for $99 TOTAL. That's how much plans have come down (let's just ignore all the throttling bullshit).

It's why I always laughed at these smug assholes that I tried to get to upgrade their phones that they'd had for 2 years already and they were all "I'm out of contract, why would I sign another 2-year agreement???" and all I could think was "Because you're paying for the phone anyways, why not at least get a NEW one." Especially since half those things were FREE back then.

Do you know how much wireless service costs in other countries? Cry me a river for these companies who are incurring virtually zero marginal cost in providing their overpriced lovely service. The idea that you think 1,200 dollars a year for loving zero marginal cost cell phone service is a good deal is mind boggling.

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Theophany posted:

�20 p/m for 20GB data and no contractual minimum term.

That's expensive compared to Korea and Japan too...

# ¿ Sep 13, 2017 15:13

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