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You've got to remember that cost of phone is far from the only cost. There are non-monetary costs such as loss of iMessage, Game Center (JK JK no one care about
by joshstrange 8y ago
You've got to remember that cost of phone is far from the only cost. There are non-monetary costs such as loss of iMessage, Game Center (JK JK no one care about that), Apple Pay, etc. And then there are the actual costs, I've spent just shy of $3K since 2008 on Apple digital "stuff" (so iOS apps, Mac Apps, Subscriptions, IAP, etc) and while I'd estimate there is about $1k or so of actual residual value in those purchases (as in apps/subscriptions I still use daily and would buy again tomorrow if they went away) it's still not anything to sneeze at. While not all of that is iOS (Most of it is, my iOS apps/IAP/Subscriptions total alone is $2.4K) it is all part of locking me into the system.
Here is my breakdown (I pulled these number out of my Apple Data Export):
iOS and tvOS Apps: $1087
In-App Subscriptions: $380
iCloud Storage Subscriptions: $251
In-App Purchases: $520
Mac Apps: $560
iTunes Match Subscriptions: $150
Apple Music Subscriptions: $0
Books: $6
Movie Rentals: $9
Songs: $5
- setr 8y agoWhat are you buying for iOS and In-App? I've only spent maybe $100 in total on iOS apps, across a good five years I think my only MacOS app expenditure was parallel and daisy disk. My Apple costs is almost purely hardware
- joshstrange 8y agoI'm not going to lie, I'm not proud of my IAP total. I am perfectly fine with purchasing level packs in games or full unlocks in apps but about half of that IAP was shit like gems/coins/etc that I spent on various games before I got that under control. As for iOS apps I have a couple of $20-$30 apps that really ratcheted up the total but I test out a lot of apps/games and while that number is large we are talking about ~$100/yr on apps which I am personally OK with. If you would like I could get more specific on which apps/games.
- setr 8y agoSure; I’m mostly fine with ponying up... my biggest issue is I don’t see much out there even worth paying (especially with my macbook; most things seem to have an equivalent or better OSS alternative, especially if you’re not constrained to the gui [where OSS is usually ugly as sin]). Even in games, the only mobile game I’ve ever thought to pick up was King of Dragon Pass, and that was just because I already knew it’d work well on a phone As long as that budget isn’t comprised of a single photoshop license, I’m interested to know what you’ve thought was worth grabbing.
- joshstrange 8y agoHere are some quick stats I spit out: Paid vs Free apps: Mac: 57 Paid vs 33 Free iOS: 310 Paid vs 227 Free Stats: ╔══════════╤═══════╤════════╤═══════╤═════════════════╗ ║ Platform │ Mean │ Median │ Mode │ Range ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ Mac │ $9.83 │ $4.99 │ $4.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╟──────────┼───────┼────────┼───────┼─────────────────╢ ║ iOS │ $3.51 │ $2.99 │ $0.99 │ $0.99 -> $59.99 ║ ╚══════════╧═══════╧════════╧═══════╧═════════════════╝ I need to clean up my output for "By Seller" because right now it looks like this: Totals By Seller: Apple Inc.: $493.05 (iOS Apps: $21.6, Mac Apps: $70.96) Supercell Oy: $252.7 (IAP: $252.7) Evernote: $147.96 (Subscriptions: $147.96) Panic, Inc.: $87.95 (iOS Apps: $37.96, Mac Apps: $49.99) Hindsight Labs LLC: $67.94 (iOS Apps: $17.96, Mac Apps: $49.98) Assembla, Inc.: $59.99 (Mac Apps: $59.99) American Honda Motor Co., Inc (Acura): $59.99 (iOS Apps: $59.99) Strong Fitness Ltd.: $54.89 (Subscriptions: $54.89) ... Which is not super useful unless you know that name of the company behind the app. I need to re-write my code to at least put a list of the app names at the end or something. For reference, in order the apps are: Apple Inc = Mac OS's Supercell Oy = Clash Royale (Not proud of this number at all) Evernote = Evernote (duh) Panic, Inc = iOS: Prompt, Prompt 2, Coda, Transmit, Status Board | Mac: Coda 2 (I own most all their mac apps as well but didn't buy through the store) Hindsight Labs LLC = Paprika 2 and 3 (for iPad/iPhone/Mac) (recipe app, hands down the best one out there, trust me) Assembla, Inc = Cornerstone (svn program) American Honda Motor Co., Inc = Acura Link (WASTE OF MONEY, I should have fought this charge) Strong Fitness Ltd = Strong (iOS Workout tracker, I think it was like $5-$6/mo) I need to also have my code print out top purchases by price (ignoring seller). I can pull out more if you would like. Edit: As you can tell the Apple Inc line is wrong, it looks like it's not pulling in the "special" categories they created for iCloud stuff, I'll fix that later.
- chadlavi 8y agoiMessage is a surprisingly good platform lock-in for the mac, too. I didn't realize how much of my normal Messages/SMS happens on my computer until I tried to switch to linux. No more "let me just text this link to someone..." or "ha ha, let me share this meme with my friend" without it. I mean you COULD, but then you have to go convince your friends to use $alternateMEssenger instead of their phone's built-in SMS app.
- joshstrange 8y agoiMessage is the greatest long con that isn't a con of all time. You don't know how great it is until you talk to someone that isn't on iMessage or you lose access to it. It just slowly sneaks into your life until you think it just IS text messaging. Never bought into iMessage "apps" or sticker packs but I love things like typing indicators/read receipts/etc.
- cromwellian 8y agoI have an iPhone and almost never use it. I use FB messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord for 99% of my contacts.
- tinus_hn 8y agoI don’t understand the group features at all though. Do people really have groups of friends in which noone has an Android phone?
- joshstrange 8y agoIn smaller or very similar groups yes. I have a group iMessage with 11 friends in it but even so for group messages I normally use FB messenger, a surprising good product, so android/ios is equal.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoOut of 40-50 family and friends that I text regularly, maybe 3 are on Android.
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