(October 15, 2016 at 7:32 am)abaris Wrote:(October 15, 2016 at 7:08 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: People made fun of my Apple brand loyalty! But who's the silly little girl now?! My phone hasn't caught fire now has it?!
That piece costs several hundred Euros. I don't need that in a phone and my provider doesn't hand out iphones for customer loyalty. So I stick with what they hand out, since I'm using my phone for phoning and nothing else besides occasionally checking my mails.
I was a very loyal apple customer until the 2000s. Then I noticed that other products do a better job in some instances for significantly less money. The G4 was the last apple I purchased - for the equivalent of 3500 Euros. A windows PC doing the same would have cost a quarter of that sum. Even less by now in comparison.
For me, the price of the iPhone 4S has really got me pissed off. I wanted to buy one a couple of months ago and they were being sold for next to 300€ or more. That is ridiculous for something that will be as obsolete as the iPhone 3g, in the next year or so. I just feel sorry for the customers who buy apple every single time a new one comes out for around 800€-1000€, and all because the size of pre-existing applications that are years old have grown in size and do exactly the same thing. For a price of an iPhone 7, I could invest money in a top of the range Alienware laptop with all modcons. iPhone and to some extent Samsung are ripping off their sheep.
