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The Apple iPhone Thread (12 Viewers)

What phone are they giving you?  I thought you have to pay full price for everything with a monthly payment plan?
You are directing this at the wrong person, i have no idea what plan they have except they have sat on an upgrade for 18 months, which is a really stupid way to manage your cell phone situation.

 
Apple said it took "Courage" for them to deviate from the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 during the presser.
When people laud themselves for "Courage" it is usually because they really should be using another word.

In this case it would seem that word is "greed"

 
The point is that upgrade is being paid for either way.... it's not like your $100 plan with a new phone each 24 months suddenly drops to $80/mo if you don't take the upgrade. If you wait 4 years instead of 2 to take that upgrade then you're just paying 2x the price for it. 
Actually, if I'm understanding Verizon, that's exactly what it's like.  My "base plan" is like $40 - then every phone "on contract" is another $40, and every phone "off contract" is only $20.  Initially both she and I were on contract, so all in we were like at $120.  We both were eligible for an upgrade at the same time when the 6 came out.  I "re-upped", and stayed at $40 for my line, but since she was no longer on contract, her line was only another $20 each month.  So our bill went from $120 to $100 because she choose not to upgrade and rather keep her no off contract and paid off phone. 

Moreover, if I understand how they do it now - you pay 0% interest for 24 months, but you're technically "off contract", so only $20 per line.  A new iphone SE (the size she likes) would be $16 a month, but her base will stay at $20/m. 

 
You are directing this at the wrong person, i have no idea what plan they have except they have sat on an upgrade for 18 months, which is a really stupid way to manage your cell phone situation.
Again, why?  You're going to be paying for it either way.  He line for the last year and a half has been $20/m.  We could have "purchased" a new phone with an upgrade, but it would have upped her monthly line charge to $40/m.  $20/m for 24 months is $480.  All for a phone that we didn't need at the time.  We were sitting on the upgrade till one of us broke a phone, which luckily didn't happen till recently, and I think I've got it fixed anyway with a new screen (painstaking process btw). 

 
Apple loves taking away features (headphone jack, microSD, removable battery) and telling people it's for their own good.  Would be funny if nearly every other company didn't copy them.

 
Apple loves taking away features (headphone jack, microSD, removable battery) and telling people it's for their own good.  Would be funny if nearly every other company didn't copy them.
Usually they work out in the long run.  No one wants to bother with a microSD card, apple saw the future there. 

The headphone jack is probably smart too, as the future is clearly going to wireless technology.  Cords are super annoying and since the technology is there to get rid of them, why not?  

The only issue of course is that you have to charge them, and that's a really big issue for some people.  If you're a proud owner of air-pods and they run out of battery in the middle of a movie......Well, yeah that's going to stink.  Just one more thing to remember to charge.   

 
Apple loves taking away features (headphone jack, microSD, removable battery) and telling people it's for their own good.  Would be funny if nearly every other company didn't copy them.
I for one miss my Floppy Drive and CD drive. 

 
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Let's put you down for 2 pairs.  Takes care of the short battery life everyone keeps whining about.
I'm not ####ting you, I bought two Apple Pencils when I bought my iPad Pro.  The second one is sitting at home collecting dust.  But damnit one day I'll lose mine and I'll be so glad I have it.

 
Usually they work out in the long run.  No one wants to bother with a microSD card, apple saw the future there. 

The headphone jack is probably smart too, as the future is clearly going to wireless technology.  Cords are super annoying and since the technology is there to get rid of them, why not?  

The only issue of course is that you have to charge them, and that's a really big issue for some people.  If you're a proud owner of air-pods and they run out of battery in the middle of a movie......Well, yeah that's going to stink.  Just one more thing to remember to charge.   
Really? No one wants to spend less than $20 to double their phone's 64 GB storage once they run out of space, preferring to spend hundreds more on a new phone instead?

 
Really? No one wants to spend less than $20 to double their phone's 64 GB storage once they run out of space, preferring to spend hundreds more on a new phone instead?
Given the unreliability of SD cards for data storage, the slow speed of data transfer, as well as the myriad of issues android phones have had with the card/phone interface? Yeah... I'll spend the extra Hundreds $80 to have better, more reliable storage accessible via a much faster I/O interface. 

But if slow, buggy, and unreliable is your thing... have at it! :thumbup:
 

 
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Ben Werdmüller Verified account ‏@benwerd 2h2 hours ago San Francisco, CA

"We're going to move from an open standard to a closed, proprietary, expensive competitor because COURAGE."

 
Given the unreliability of SD cards for data storage, the slow speed of data transfer, as well as the myriad of issues android phones have had with the card/phone interface? Yeah... I'll spend the extra Hundreds $80 to have better, more reliable storage accessible via a much faster I/O interface. 

But if slow, buggy, and unreliable is your thing... have at it! :thumbup:
 
Link to these new phones that cost $80?  

 
So there's a 3.5mm adapter.  while not a perfect solution, it's at least a solution.  I assume some headphones will just have native lightning support, and the 180 air buds will never catch on.  Maybe. 

 
I'm not ####ting you, I bought two Apple Pencils when I bought my iPad Pro.  The second one is sitting at home collecting dust.  But damnit one day I'll lose mine and I'll be so glad I have it.
My cheap ### loves how you spend money.   You should have a thread just listing all the stuff you buy.  

 
So there's a 3.5mm adapter.  while not a perfect solution, it's at least a solution.  I assume some headphones will just have native lightning support, and the 180 air buds will never catch on.  Maybe. 
Yeah if I bought a 7 I would likely just leave the little extension on the end of my current headphones until I felt compelled to upgrade.. and then buying a model with integrated lightning support would be part of the purchasing decision. 
 

 
So there's a 3.5mm adapter.  while not a perfect solution, it's at least a solution.  I assume some headphones will just have native lightning support, and the 180 air buds will never catch on.  Maybe. 
They showed some JBL earbuds that had the lighting connector

 
Really? No one wants to spend less than $20 to double their phone's 64 GB storage once they run out of space, preferring to spend hundreds more on a new phone instead?
Yeah.  I personally hate the ability to increase my phone's storage cheaply!

 
Given the unreliability of SD cards for data storage, the slow speed of data transfer, as well as the myriad of issues android phones have had with the card/phone interface? Yeah... I'll spend the extra Hundreds $80 to have better, more reliable storage accessible via a much faster I/O interface. 

But if slow, buggy, and unreliable is your thing... have at it! :thumbup:
 
No one I know has ever had a SD card fail.  You can buy a 200GB card for $60.

 
I'm not ####ting you, I bought two Apple Pencils when I bought my iPad Pro.  The second one is sitting at home collecting dust.  But damnit one day I'll lose mine and I'll be so glad I have it.
Why would you just not order a second Apple Pencil if you lost your first one? It's not like they are hard to get. 

 
Going to get the watch since my latest fitbit is on it's way out.  Anyone know if the Series One glass is different then the Series Two?

 
Why would you just not order a second Apple Pencil if you lost your first one? It's not like they are hard to get. 
Because Oats needs it as soon as he can't find it.  I assume he will order another one as soon as he can't find the first one but it will be his third iPencil.

 
Those of you with a 6 plus (or higher) that plan on getting the 7, how are you gonna go about getting it? Some kind of trade in? Or try to sell it yourself? 

I have a 6 plus in great condition, but I don't know if AT&T has any kind of store trade in deals. 

I sold my 5S to game stop for $127 a year or so ago, I felt like I got ripped off. But Craigslist wasn't working for me.

 
Pretty much everything in here sounds exactly like what was in the iPad thread after that was released...  

And right before you all had one in your houses. 

 
I have had a micro SD card fail. There, now you know one person. :)  

You completely gloss over the SD card issues that android has had with the format (Google helps here), and the fact that data transfer is much slower than on board memory. 

It's not the same. 
Most of the data I have on my phone doesn't need to be read at 400 MB/s.  I just need a large, cheap place to store data.

 

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