"Everyone wants iPhones" Anyone is free to "want" anything. But they need to be rich to actually afford it. Also, I think it's a HN bubble thing to think that

"Everyone wants iPhones" Anyone is free to "want" anything. But they need to be rich to actually afford it. Also, I think it's a HN bubble thing to think that the vast majority of iPhone users know or care about Apple's fine-tuned App Store-related extortion or their privacy promises. In fact until recently Apple had made it literally a bannable offence on the App Store to EVEN INFORM PEOPLE that Apple was taking a cut of their money. FB collected money through their apps for charity fundraisers and Apple not only wanted 30% of that, but they refused to let FB EVEN INFORM their customers that this was happening. I am sorry for using all caps but if you seriously do not see how insane this is becoming, we are operating on very different axioms. Apple makes good hardware and decent software and has managed to maintain a patina of luxury and class and 'high society' for all these years, yes. Completely agreed. Side note: I don't want an iPhone and have in 20 years of adult life never paid for an Apple product.