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I know a guy who does this with Apple products. Half monthly salary for a phone for a year sounds extreme to me. Plus all the gimmicks that come with the phone
by lnsru 4y ago
I know a guy who does this with Apple products. Half monthly salary for a phone for a year sounds extreme to me. Plus all the gimmicks that come with the phone - pad, phones and watch.
- ghaff 4y agoAdmittedly there are tradeins. I know someone who does a fair bit of reviewing of camera gear including smartphone cameras. His approach seems to generally be to effectively rent a phone for a year. With that said, I generally go for 3 years and use the older phone to drive my stereo, sometimes act as a travel spare, etc.
- rootusrootus 4y agoWouldn’t be my choice for sure. But he presumably sells the old one.
- cableshaft 4y agoAt least Apple products hold their value pretty well. I'm only just now starting to think about upgrading my 2015 Macbook Pro and it looks like I could still get $400 for it. A year old Apple device probably gets at least 60% of its MSRP back when sold. I wouldn't do it personally (see me still using a >7 year old Macbook), but they're likely not dropping anywhere near the full MSRP every year, after they sell the old one. Meanwhile, I've had three gaming Windows laptops during that same time, and two of them literally fell apart (one I kept using until enough of the plastic frame around the monitor cracked that I could no longer keep it in place with binder clips). The most recent one (ASUS ROG Strix G15) is still doing well, but I've only had it for about two years at this point.