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An upgraded iPhone 8 with a starting storage of 64 Gb at only $399. Seems like a great deal. Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead
by bluedevil2k 7y ago
An upgraded iPhone 8 with a starting storage of 64 Gb at only $399. Seems like a great deal. Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead of spending $1200 on an iPhone 11 Max.
- rockostrich 7y agoI've been waiting for this the past few years. I'm probably switching over to this line whenever I feel like I need a new phone.
- Donald 7y agoRight. They seem to seriously be undermining their higher price point phone products. Although, this may be the time to do it given current market conditions.
- tw04 7y agoThe higher priced phones have always been a status symbol. This won't change that for most of their target market IMO.
- dmix 7y agoI dont think I could ever go below the size of an iPhone X (5.8in vs 4.7in). That’s a pretty serious downgrade. I think this competes better with people considering Android. You could do a lot with $400USD in that market.
- MandieD 7y agoThis phone is for those of us clinging bitterly to our SEs and 6-8's because we actually like the form factor and/or are the kind of tightwads who will buy a second-hand iOS device and run it another 3 years.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThat’s how a smart company does it. Cover the whole range even if it may hurt sales in one segment. Better to cannibalize yourself than have the competition do it.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoNot only that but if they are trying to shift towards services it makes sense to get more devices in peoples hands.
- floatingatoll 7y agoIf you want the smallest iPhone available, and prioritize that in your purchasing, you no longer have to compromise on a wide array of features to do so. That will spur a great deal of people who are refusing to buy iPhones to buy iPhones (+$$$) and convert a certain percentage of bigphone users to smallphone users at a lower pricepoint at the next upgrade cycle (-$$). It is possible that Apple's usage statistics for old iPhones indicate that the + will be greater than the - while getting a bunch of users off of older lower-performing phones.
- alexis_fr 7y agoI have an iPhone 7 and I was reluctant to change because of FaceID, which I don’t like, and screen size of new models. This SE makes me think the opposite: I look forward changing. So it is a real game changer. (I don’t buy Android because I’ve been bitten by the non-encrypted memory before, and Google isn’t serious about privacy).
- MuffinFlavored 7y ago> Makes me seriously consider this model for my next phone instead of spending $1200 on an iPhone 11 Max. I just continually finance the latest phone at 0% interest for ~$40/mo. Trade in every year.
- crazygringo 7y agoI mean great, but $40/mo is $480/yr, which is more than cost of the SE which will last you for several years. The SE is budget. $40/mo is not budget by any yardstick.
- dbbk 7y agoThe whole point of the programme is to have the latest device if you're the kind of person who likes tech and wants the latest, not someone who will keep an SE for several years.
- jaywalk 7y agoSame. I want the latest tech, and you can't beat 0% financing.
- Shivetya 7y agoat this price point it makes pairing with an Apple Watch more enticing. I would have gifted watches to my parents long before but it requires an iPhone to pair too and previously the price wise option was used.
- JKCalhoun 7y agoWhen you have teenagers, these are the models you look for. I'll probably by a few.
- ido 7y agoIs it?? My kids aren't teenagers yet but if they were I wouldn't be buying them $400 phones.
- NegativeLatency 7y agoGoing to force mine to learn how to use T9
- asdf21 7y agoYeah, you would be... after they begged for the 200th time.
- Lammy 7y agoIt's not entirely unwarranted begging. Personal electronics are the few status items kids/teens own, and while I'm sure every marketing department on the planet loves it, it's still a bad idea to make them visibly outcast by withholding a decent phone.
- Invictus0 7y agoIf the iPhone SE is the difference between being in the out and in groups, then you have much bigger problems.
- jseliger 7y agoA while ago I quit buying new models and switched to refurbished ones. The 7 I had did more or less what its predecessor did (car services, chat, remote camera control) and the one I have now (X or Xs?) does more or less what the 7 did. I can afford the newer ones, but I don't see the value relative to the four-figure cost.
- eckza 7y agoI would still be using my 7 if it had a decent camera. I loved - LOVED - that phone.
- Lammy 7y agoSsh, don't tell me that! I've used my 128GB iPhone 7 since buying it used when the iPhone 8 was released, and I still think it has an excellent camera compared to my previous Galaxy Note 4.
- spockz 7y agoThere is also a difference between phones. My 7 only makes decent pictures under the best of conditions. In other conditions it yields grainy and water painting style pictures. My wife’s 7, ordered at the same time yields way sharper and higher resolution pictures in the same situations.
- Lammy 7y agoMine took this photo yesterday, and I can definitely see room for improvement both in overall sharpness and in detail clarity like the signs and foliage: https://i.imgur.com/U1mmscV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/U1mmscV.jpg It sits above my personal line of "good enough", though, and every photo will be mangled by $social_network JPEG compression before anybody else sees it anyway.
- Causality1 7y agoSee that's funny because despite switching to Oneplus I still miss the camera from my Note 4 every day. Even the "standard angle" cameras these days have such wide fields of view there's never enough detail on my subject to make my pictures worth having.
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- Spooky23 7y agoMy iPhone 8 was maxed out with storage and is going strong. But even as a tech person who loves phones, I don't see the value proposition... it feels like a fully loaded Honda Civic. I'd love the fancy camera, but the cost of the flagship seems to be way out of line with the value. I'd rather have a phone + macbook. (I keep computers for 4-5 years and phones for 2-2.5 depending on the battery), so the annualized cost of a fancy iphone is basically the same as a $500 phone + macbook.
- danso 7y agoYeah, I priced out the 256GB model and saw that it was $299, if I were to trade in my 8+. I reflexively assumed the store had an error and reloaded the page. Can't remember the last time I've seen a new Apple device priced at <$300 (iPod nano?)
- mciancia 7y agoIt's _not_ priced < 300USD since you have to give in your old iphone which still has some value
- rchaud 7y agoI believe the 4GB HDD iPod was priced at $250 back in 2004 or 2005. The base model iPod Photo was $299.
- thekyle 7y agoThe iPad is close. It's $309 new from Apple without any discounts applied. Certainly it can be had for ~$250 elsewhere.