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Been telling everyone this since IPhone 10. Their phones have gotten too expensive and the incremental changes between generations have gotten way too small. There are smartphones that cost $250 that almost are as good (for your average consumer) as a $1000 IPhone. Also, android is no longer significantly worse than IOS. Sales will keep declining and Apple will be forced to cut their margins. We’re most likely going much lower.
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As innovative as the yearly iipod that used to come out, meaning none at all.
apple is such an outdated trash to be honest. Who the fuck even dare to touch something as roundshaped as iphone and not cringe? Round corners are there to protect retards from hitting their heads too hard when answering the call, why would you even need that if you ar at least 3 iq higher than a regular apple zealot.
Honestly, it's trash. Sony tried to do recently something better, but they are still plagued with infantile round corners. They are all scammers
apple used to be the standard of quality for price.
I bought my galaxy j1 at walmart for $20
they were using the best gimmicks they could to put out a stellar product, but they are failing to make the shift to anything more than a status symbol.
really this isn't surprising.
too bad I didn't load up on shorts.
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Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge
Like, you can't avoid damaging the phone when it falls on the ground by making it roundshaped. Instead you design it in such a way so it will less likely ever hit the corner. Then why do you even need these round corners at all? Exactly to protect retards.
Imagine how many people would die
Are boomers to blame for phones being expensive?
A: yes
The XR is fucking ugly. EVERYONE is still buying however. Did Trump really fuck them over that bad?
Why are you retards so triggered by an engineering decision lmao
Reminder Samsung went private so you can't corner the market for phones with investments anymore.
ITT: poorfags seething
This
I know iPhones are shit, but I still have one just to trigger poorfags, and for that reason alone it's worth the price
The phones got shit after Steve Jobs died you fucking normie cuck now go back to consumer spending you fucking wagie
except they are not shit (been using android for almost 10 years before switching to an iphone last year), but ok whatever makes poorfags cope lol
lul
checked, verizon used to give you a free galaxy core prime every year if you used their plan. don't know why that's not good enough for people. they need their shitty apple ecosystem
> projecting this hard
I’m self-employed, not a wagie. I own an iPhone 7 and haven’t felt the need to buy a new one.
Literally all my boomer relatives have bought the iPhone XR. It looks like ass, really don't know why it is so popular. All of them are technological illiterates who need a babby phone to use
Maps and voice assistant are trash compared to Google and that's 90% of my phone use.
Design and quality are much better than anything Android has though.
I-phone is a premium product and a status symbol for people who have real jobs and get paid real money. It may not be the best phone or even a good phone but carrying one tells the world - I AM NOT A NIGGER.
This. Normies will spend all their cash on weed but get pissed just because you use an iPhone even if it’s years old.
apple bubble is finally bursting hooray
well these are just apps, and I agree that google maps is way better
Because I am aware of what's happening and avoid SMOOTHING at all cost?
This. GLOBAL ROUNDING IS INEVITABLE and you cucks just watch it happening.
It's a cultural status symbol for women.
Truer words have never been spoken. I allways get the latest iPhone, not because I need it or can tell the difference from the previous one. Nor do I crave the envy or admiration from my peers. I simply flaunt it to piss off people who can’t afford it, honestly more satisfying than anything I’ve experienced so far in life. And I did have intercourse once.
Thats the spirit!
Kek
Said it before and I'll say it again. Apple is completely out of ideas. Since Steve Jobs died Apple has not been able to come up with a single idea.
They've got nothing.
Well, people buy iphones because they are iphones usually, its not about the tech, its about having the same itens as your pairs to feel socially fit into mainstream society.
Sales are going low because people cant change their cellphones so fast, atleast not the majority.
No brainlet I won’t pay for an expensive phone that basically just have value for 300$ I was an apple fan before iPhone 10 now switching to android fuck apple and I was an iOS developer also
They literally have the worst App Store policy and won’t accept crypto related apps easily
I buy 2 or 3 galaxies a year between the 200 and 300 dollar range. I work in a manufacturing industry and even though it's an office job I'm bound to end up on site and smash at least a couple phones a year. Lots of people like myself treat their work phone budget as a running expense, and the decision between a 2-3k/ye expenditure or a 400-600/year expenditure is not very difficult for us.
You aint a normie, period.
You know normies doesnt even know of crypto neither would let their funds into it in a mainstream way after the last fiasco of the first crypto bubble.
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Basically their business model doesn't work with customers called Prajeesh, Xiao, Miguel, and Kwame.
You still dont get it, right?
People that usually have iphones aint the ones who work, the normal "adult" worker, they are the sons of boomer era that receive everything from their parents and if they dont receive they #cryalot.
oh look chinks can't buy iphones anymore because their fake economy is crumbling so this must mean Apple is done
MFW my google cool pad for $25 is better than getting ass-raped by apple.
that cope
>upper middle class/ rich boomers
>Americans
Literally the only people I know that buys iPhones.
That’s just not true though.
They’ve had several terrible ideas since then.
What the fuck?
How you say I need to cope.
See the average price of iphone and compare to global average income, besides US and first world countries the only ones that get their iphones are people that get is as a gift from their parents that like to give "everything that they didnt had" to their sons.
No, it just means the company is overvalued and has limits to its growth that companies like Alphabet don't.
I bet you wouldn't say any of that if you owned an iphone
Americans are the most consumerist country on earth with cheapish shit. They actually think an iPhone is a status symbol while at the same time telling people who wear A. Lange & Söhne: "lol can't afford an iPhone I see! iPhones can tell the time too gramps"
iphone users are basically throat fucked in their wallets
I bet $50 with you I have one.
Yup.
I dunno but I have the money to afford an iPhone but in reality I look at the things I use my phone and the justification for buying an overpriced phone for the sake of browsing the internet, some basic banking, jewtube and email. I dont see a reason for paying more than 200 euro for a device with that purpose.
Also nice shitpost
lol
The reason is simple: social parity and status.
it is a status symbol that's why it makes all poorfags seeth, simple as that.
how poor are you that you can't afford a $1000 iphone? you should be able to buy one working min wage
>it is a status symbol in USA (probably Canada too)
FTFY
For me personally, it's the light phone
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Zizek spoke about it in one of his lectures recently
Brazil too, anywhere in the World probably.
no, it's global. offer to trade your iphone 10 with any xiaomi or huwaei or whatever chink shit a person has ANYWHERE in the world and they'd do it in a heartbeat
Not here
The majority of people here use Samsung regardless of wealth.
there are only 2 reasons people don't buy iphones:
1. they can't afford splashing the cash on an iphone, or
2. low self esteem and wanting to be "different" than iphone users
there are no other reasons
Teenagers?
Look Instagram.
iPhone just never took off like that here.
>Look at map
>lol literally shitskin countries prefer Andriod
LMFAO but still not the case here.
Dude, its not about what people prefer, PEOPLE CANT FUCKING AFFORD IPHONES, got it?
Here a Iphone 5 is atleast 1000 reais, above one month of min wage.
Don't be ridiculous not everybody who doesn't own a iPhone can't afford it. As the map clearly illustrates some European countries prefer Samsung to iPhone unless you are saying shitty places like New Zealand is richer than central Europe.
Taste is often a cultural thing.
oh look people from poor countries can't afford an iphone, shocking
>2019
>people still buying flagship phones as a "status symbol"
top fucking kek
Lol dude, I dont know if you think all the world is a extension of the first world. people usually have android here because its cheaper.
A new android cellphone is like R$500, while an Iphone 4 from years ago its R$1.000.
The most used cellphones aint the same of the "Most desired ones".
> -8%
is this crypto?
Do i buy this dip?
Median and mean wealth per adult
>Netherlands ranked 6 (android)
>Italy ranked 16 (android)
>USA ranked 21 (iOS)
Get your heads out of your asses. I am starting to think you are part of apple's marketing team.
Dude, what problem you have? I'm just telling you that androids being the most used doesnt mean they are the most desired.
Normal cars are the most used, that means they are the most desired? People desire a lambo, ferrari and they aint the most common ones.
>People desire a lambo, ferrari
Lmao
No I am saying people in different countries have different tastes. Jesus not everybody fell for American marketing as hard.
Coincidentally higher IQ countries also prefer android.
>I'm just telling you that androids being the most used doesnt mean they are the most desired.
I agree but saying half of Europe is too poor to buy iPhone's even though it is what they truly desire is being disingenuous.
You desire fat/normal looking girls or some kind of hot thot?
iPhones are for dipshits. that could be a reason.
cope
My iphone 6 is bretty gud
>be wealthy
>have to show everyone how wealthy I am by buying overpriced shit
>I AM NOT A NIGGER
user, I...
How many of you cucks actually go out and buy a new phone. Everyone I met got one for free from their wagey job and it's actually cheaper paying to use it than having a flip phone.
But it's the BEST iPhone they've ever made. Tim Cook says it every year
*ahem*
might wanna have a look at the Cat S61
The main target market isn’t Brazil. It might be hard for you to imagine, but most people who own iPhones in the US, Europe, Australia, SK, Japan, NZ, Canada etc. didn’t get them as gifts. Sure, 1k is a lot for a phone, but it’s really not that hard to afford one if you really want one. It’s the equivalent of buying a $125 smartphone in Brazil (if you compare average salaries).
And most people who own iPhones here are just regular people, they aren’t rich/ have rich parents. Look at Apple’s sales figures most IPhones are sold in the US, Europe and the rich countries in Asia.
I live in Serbia, and girls here see iphone as a status symbol. The daughter of my coworker legit wanted to kill herself cause she cant stand the embarrassment of being the only girl in class without an iphone.
It aint even about quality, i know a lot of people who would rather buy a used iphone 7 than be gifted any 1k+ android flagship cause the little apple logo is the only thing that matters. This is why there is a huge market here for outdated iphones, people would rather use an outdated apple product than buy a new android. They cant afford the latest iphone so they will settle for anything as long as it has an apple logo.
Lol. She's going to end up as a whore.
How sad
I dont know about her specifically cause her parents are rich and can afford to spend 1500 on a phone, they just wont buy it because they think she is a spoiled brat.
There are definitely lots of cases where poor teens fuck older guys just so they buy them an iphone.
Btw that fucking 720p lcd screen iphone xr costs almost as much as a note 9 here, and girls will omg cum in their panties when they see an xr while thinking a note 9 (or any non apple flagship) is a phone for poor people. Let that sink in, apple released a phone with a 720p in 2018 and people still think it is the best company ever.
I buy 2 or 3 galaxies a year between the 200 and 300 dollar range. I work in a manufacturing industry and even though it's an office job I'm bound to end up on site and smash at least a couple phones a year. Lots of people like myself treat their work phone budget as a running expense, and the decision between a 2-3k/ye expenditure or a 400-600/year expenditure is not very difficult for us.
wtf just get a fucking otterbox case dude.
name one phone under $250 or $100 thats anywhere near as good as an iPhone. I'll wait.
>that retard that doesn’t get a company phone or intentionally smashes his work phone
I’ve worked in manufacturing for 6 years and never seen an office worker or engineer break their phone, dude must be retarded
Cope that you're a dipshit? Sure I guess.
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I'm just going to say it. Tim Cook proved he is a faggot.
this nigger is so stupid
In the 80s, yeah.
>TFW you realize tech improvements are at the point that nobody gives a shit or notices the next improvement
>TFW console generations are almost dead if not completely dead
>TFW nobody gave a shit about 4k
I have no feel, because I don't care. Tech is gay.
the new gimmick is curved screens, before 4k it was 3D, they will always find something shitty to justify higher TV prices.
>There are smartphones that cost $250 that almost are as good (for your average consumer) as a $1000 IPhone.
what kind of perosn really does need a 1000$ dollar phone? like seriosuly, what do they do, what do they use it for?