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Yep. There is one reason and one reason only I am on Android: price. A mobile phone does not have enough value to me to pay for Apple's least expensive phone.
by throwawayboise 4y ago
Yep. There is one reason and one reason only I am on Android: price. A mobile phone does not have enough value to me to pay for Apple's least expensive phone.
- drdec 4y agoExactly. I was recently talking to a guy who had had his iPhone stolen. But it was no big deal - he had replacement insurance and the deductible was only $200. Which is more than I have ever paid for a phone in my life.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI use an iPhone but I was surprised the OP mentioned price as a reason to switch.
- rejectfinite 4y agoI buy unlocked. I would rather have a 10/month phone bill than a 40-50 one.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI buy unlocked too. But you can get a decent Android phone that does all the major things for far less than an iPhone.
- skinnymuch 4y agoPrice of phone shouldn’t be used as a barometer. It should be the price you end up paying per month when all is said and done.
- Dayshine 4y agoI pay £10/3 months plus £200-300 every 4 years for a phone.
- skinnymuch 4y agoWow the 10 every 3 months is cheap. Even if little data is included. Nice.
- drdec 4y agoI buy unlocked phones without financing them and use Ting for mobile service. I don't buy phones from the cell providers.
- skinnymuch 4y agoI wasn’t critiquing you. Just pointing out what makes sense. I’m positive you come out with less paid in every metric than most. Since I live in the US and my cousin and brother want to be on Verizon. The price of Verizon with 4-5/lines and carriers that piggyback off the big three are not too different, for me, I do end up getting a $1K phone every 3 or so years without paying anything directly. I’m locked to the big 3 carriers at that point for 2 years. It’s not as flexible but my end cost for the phones is usually $5 more a month in plan cost and being stuck to a big 3 carrier, I haven’t paid much for a phone since I started doing this after Att paid T-Mobile equivalent of $4B in break up fees a decade ago and that pushed for more competition. Though back then I was rocking webOS then Windows Phone before sadly going from iPhone to iPhone. I believe it was iPhone 6 to 8 to 13 Pro. So 3 year and 4 year gaps waiting for deals where I wouldn’t pay anything except a trade in and being tied to the carrier. I also use a ton of data. Except during the first 1.5 years of the pandemic. During that time period I for sure was wasting money.
- GeekyBear 4y agoThe $399 iPhone SE is currently on it's sixth year of OS updates.
- goosedragons 4y agoAndroid phones don't break even if they stop getting updates. Big popular apps like Firefox, Kindle, etc. work on old versions of Android like 6.0. $400+ is still a steep upfront cost to a lot of people.
- GeekyBear 4y ago> Android phones don't break even if they stop getting updates. So when Google issues a kernel patch for an actively exploited zero day you aren't vulnerable? Don't be ridiculous.
- goosedragons 4y agoVulnerable != Broken. An iPhone SE is vulnerable to the same bug used by checkra1n. Is it broken?
- GeekyBear 4y agoCheckra1n relies on a hardware issue that cannot be patched. Software zero days can be patched and on Android even the vendors with the best support policies only cover half as many years. Cheap Android phones don't even get that. The OG iPhone SE is on it's sixth year of OS updates. The iPhone 5s just got it's eighth year of security updates.
- goosedragons 4y agoWhich means it's permanently broken by your standards right? Or do you have some sort of non-nonsensical exception for hardware vulnerabilities?
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