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I was rocking an iPhone 6. Yes, a 6. My wife had an xs max - two weeks ago she dropped it and it smashed. We went and bought a pair of iPhone 15 pro max phones, fully loaded.
Bottom line: there just isn’t a reason to upgrade a phone anymore, unless they break. Sales HAS to go down if the price point stays the same or goes up.
Brother you are the one who bought the most expensive phone on the market. You realize that you're reinforcing the market you don't like, right? Your purchase sends a message to Apple that "Yes, we want crazy expensive phones because people keep buying them"
I get that, I do. I wanted the phone I wanted, bent over, and let Apple give it to me with no lube.
But in my defense-I did go an entire decade not buying a phone. ;)
There's no need for a defense, buy what you want. However, there are lots of sub-1000 phones that are very good.
They still exist, just don't buy the "Pro Max" model. The iPhone 15 is $800 and the 15 Plus is $900
They exist. Even iPhones. You just didn't buy one... wtf?
But where did the $2k phones for sub $1000 go? They're all like twice as expensive.
Why didn't you buy an iPhone SE? I have the 2022 model and it started at $429. I upgraded from an iPhone 6S.
The iPhone she sucks though, my mom has one and every part of it (especially the battery) is worse than my cheaper android phone (that's about the same size)
Mine permanently lives in a battery case, and I've never had any performance issues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah it has a good SOC, but "I use a battery bank" is a pretty weak argument. My point wasn't that you should feel bad for having it, just that other ppl should know it isn't good value right now.
My iphone still has Touch ID 🥰
Was the 6 the one with 3D Touch? If so, you actually lost a feature.
I believe the hardware for the touch was on the X and Xs
Seems we're both right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Touch
The 6 and 6s had 3d touch, while 10 has Force Touch
$1000? I have a hard cap at $600 on principle. Just get a phone one generation old and it's easy.
If you want a good sub $1000 phone you need to go android.
Not even that, the iPhone SE is $430 and is the closest phone they’re claiming to want but then going for the top of the line phone instead.
They said "good". I phones are not my cup of tea, but the she is particularly bad.
No one says you have to buy a new phone, used iPhones are usually a lot cheaper.
No you don't. But also, define "good".
That definition depends on the person, but for me
Works as a phone
Can play my phone games (Blue Archive)
This game?
Looks like iPhones qualify just fine even by your narrow criteria.
It needs to run well without major stutters. Haven't used an iphone since they got rid of the headphone jack. I would imagine anything even remotely modern will be fine.
My iPhone 14 Plus was sub $1000 last year. Even an iPhone 15 Plus is sub $1000. And the 15 Pro Max with 1TB of storage from Apple directly is $1599 (this was the most expensive I could find on the Apple site.)