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I'd disagree, I work in phone repair and have an iPhone 7+. Apples cheapest phone isn't 1000$ it's 450$ for an iPhone 7. Which IMO is fast enough given the tiny

I'd disagree, I work in phone repair and have an iPhone 7+. Apples cheapest phone isn't 1000$ it's 450$ for an iPhone 7. Which IMO is fast enough given the tiny incremental improvements of the 8, etc. I'd say iPhones last far longer then most (not all!) android devices. My mom still uses a 5S. It still gets security updates (and feature updates and optimizations!) how many android devices can say that? Even Google's nexus series can't say that anymore. That said the 6 and 6p have been dying a lot recently from cellular/wifi issues or some other weird things - things we can't replace or fix (sadly our store is unequiped to do motherboard level repairs, but IMO only 2 employees would even have a chance at attempting something like that). I think this comes back to the bending issue they had. iPhone 6 phones are still aplenty in the wild though.

btilly 8y ago
I said "that they want you to buy". The ones that they want you to buy are listed at https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/. Go there and look at the phones that they list. Can you find the cheaper phone? Yes. Its specs don't compare to the https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-64gb--unlocked--sm-g950uzkaxaa/?cid=us_pla_google-8875160598-cam=US_IMECOM_PLA_Buy_MobilePhones&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt8KD6eXy3gIVD1mGCh3eeQijEAQYAiABEgJ93_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-... for the same price. As for iPhones lasting longer, it certainly used to be true. I went out of my way to buy Apple products for close to 20 years, in large part because of the reliability that they gave. However reliability of Apple devices seems like it has gone downhill in the last few years. Look at https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ for example. My anecdotal experience fits. In the last 5 years I personally bought 3 new phones. One died 3 days out of warranty, one is the phone I described above, and the other is still being used by my son. My wife switched after her phone had reliability problems, and my step-son's switch came after his phone just died.

btilly 8y ago

I said "that they want you to buy". The ones that they want you to buy are listed at https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/. Go there and look at the phones that they list. Can you find the cheaper phone? Yes. Its specs don't compare to the https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-64gb--unlocked--sm-g950uzkaxaa/?cid=us_pla_google-8875160598-cam=US_IMECOM_PLA_Buy_MobilePhones&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt8KD6eXy3gIVD1mGCh3eeQijEAQYAiABEgJ93_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-... for the same price. As for iPhones lasting longer, it certainly used to be true. I went out of my way to buy Apple products for close to 20 years, in large part because of the reliability that they gave. However reliability of Apple devices seems like it has gone downhill in the last few years. Look at https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ for example. My anecdotal experience fits. In the last 5 years I personally bought 3 new phones. One died 3 days out of warranty, one is the phone I described above, and the other is still being used by my son. My wife switched after her phone had reliability problems, and my step-son's switch came after his phone just died.