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This is terriffic news! Smartphones are things that drop, that break, that fall into water and that get lost. Shelling out $500 for something this... ephemeral.
by Derbasti 13y ago
This is terriffic news! Smartphones are things that drop, that break, that fall into water and that get lost. Shelling out $500 for something this... ephemeral... always seemed absurd to me.
Or maybe I am just clumsy.
- mkaziz 13y agoI agree with you. I balked at the Nexus 5 even because I would hate myself if I dropped $350 on the train. $179 is much more bearable.
- mistercow 13y agoI think the subsidies make this worse. When you hand over $200 for a phone, it doesn't feel like it's a $650 piece of equipment.
- tesseractive 13y agoThey make cases that are pretty good with shock resistance, and some phones are actually water resistant -- my last Motorola was. Other than "find my phone" features, I can't help you with losing it, however.
- Raphael 13y agoCalculate the cost. If you destroy a phone on average once per year, then $500 equates to $1.37 per day.
- esolyt 13y agoExcept human psychology doesn't work that way. You will have lost something that has a value of approximately $500. It will feel like someone just stole $500 from you.