€1,179 for an iPhone

Permabear

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McMurphy

(Stolen from the joke thread)

But....

How do you milk a sheep?

Release another iPhone.

osarusan

I bought a phone that cost me €105.

The main reason I bought it was that it fit in my pocket - many phones are just too long these days.

I have a desktop at work, a laptop at home, and a tablet I bring around with me. I don't need to spend a lot on a phone.

GLaDOS

I'd never pay that amount of money for a phone, no matter how good it is.

I usually drop back a generation with phones and get a damn good phone at a reasonable price.

Let the fanboys work out the bugs :pac:

Really Interested

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It's 1349 for the 256 GB and yes I will order one.

NewApproach

What's the purpose of this thread?

TommyKnocker

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Prefer Android phones my self but there is no way I would pay that for any phone. Is the face recognition a optional feature you CAN use or is this the only way to unlock your phone. If an optional feature then I don't see the big issue once it is clear if/how this data can/will be used by apple.

Kimbot

No, i dont like apples.

McMurphy

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What's the purpose of this thread?

to get an apple v android war in full swing.

Typed on my iPhone running Android version 8.0

Boom_Bap

I'm not an anti government protester in Russia so I'm getting one.

mahamageehad

Isn't not that much more expensive than previous iPhones, plus who even buys an iPhone? Everyone I know with an iPhone got it for free or heavily discounted on their contract.

Don't like it, don't buy it. It's not like it's mandatory. There's plenty of cheaper phones out there. There will still be queues for this when it comes out regardless of price.

The face scanning thing is scary though. Saw a tweet yesterday that said something along the lines of "Due to our corporate password policy, all employees with the new iPhone will be required to surgically alter their face every 90 days." :P

Wheety

Move to Bargain Alerts

Senna

NewApproach wrote: »

What's the purpose of this thread?

Detect people with more money than sense?

Richard Hillman

All the features seem to be knocked off from other phones.

I remember an I Phone came out a few years ago and some of my friends were raving about a swipe keyboard. I had a swipe keyboard on an €80 phone about 2 years before it.

This new phone seems to be championing themselves on facial recognition, finger print scanner and wireless charging.

GavRedKing

Fanboys will, they'll probably que up too and be some of the first to get their hands on them.

Apple has some of the most dedicated fanboys around but that price for a phone is insane, if they want to spend their money, let them, its not going to have any effect on my life.

I'd be happier buying the newer OnePlus phones, which would have specs as good, but for half the price.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

From experience, people are happy to spend 500-1000 EUR for a laptop that most of them rarely use. Yet the same people balk at spending similar money on a phone that they would use 3-4 hours per day. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't spend that sort of money on a phone myself because iPhones are absolute dog s**t.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Facial recognition may be a downside to anti government protesters in Russia but it's a God send to the man who worries his wife knows his pass code and is always on the cusp of unlocking his phone while he's in the shower and discovering his deeply shameful browsing history.

Pac1Man

Does this one have a headphone socket?

gramar

A Ferrari 458 Spider costs about €225,000. In the same way I don't give a toss about how much this model of car costs, I don't give a toss about how much the new iPhone costs.

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tomwaterford

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Fair fcuks if your going your kids an iPhone each

SteM

Lets be honest, 1% of the purchasers in Ireland will buy it outright. Everyone else will sign up for for a 24 month contract and get it heavily subsidised.

The Samsung S8 Plus is €780 off contract ffs, hardly cheap but there was no outrage thread on After Hours when it was released.

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SteM

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From reading the blurb in the techie wankfest pieces online today, my guess is they will not.

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donegal.

mahamageehad wrote: »

Isn't not that much more expensive than previous iPhones, plus who even buys an iPhone? Everyone I know with an iPhone got it for free or heavily discounted on their contract.

:P

no you didn't.
nobody you know did either.

there is no phone company giving out free or discounted iphones. Paying by installments is the most expensive way to pay for your phone.


now the next bit might come as a shock but the bank didn't give you a free house either.

donegal.

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Lets be honest, 1% of the purchasers in Ireland will buy it outright. Everyone else will sign up for for a 24 month contract and get it heavily subsidised.
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see above


fecking edgits

Hammer89

Yep I'll be buying one. Myself, Brian and David have set up a few a fold-up chairs outside the Apple Store in Henry St and plan on being here for the five months.

Pelvis

Richard Hillman wrote: »

This new phone seems to be championing themselves on facial recognition, finger print scanner and wireless charging.

I think the face scanner has replaced the finger print scanner, rather than being an addition.

Loada ****.

GhostyMcGhost

mahamageehad wrote: »

Isn't not that much more expensive than previous iPhones, plus who even buys an iPhone? Everyone I know with an iPhone got it for free or heavily discounted on their contract.

Free?.... Unless you won it in a competition it's certainly nowhere near free

_Dara_

Honestly.... no. I got my first iPhone last week, an iPhone SE. It's also my first billpay. I paid €9.99 for it. I love it but it would never inspire me to drop more than a grand on a one. To each their own though, I guess.

murpho999

TommyKnocker wrote: »

Prefer Android phones my self but there is no way I would pay that for any phone. Is the face recognition a optional feature you CAN use or is this the only way to unlock your phone. If an optional feature then I don't see the big issue once it is clear if/how this data can/will be used by apple.

Yes it is optional as you can still unlock the phone with a pin.

valoren

The business methodology at play here is akin to Manchester United in the 1990's selling football jerseys.

Everyone suddenly became a United fan when they started winning the league.
It's a good comparison with Apple as a company to United.
Early success, dedicated fan base, crap and stagnant for years, a new single minded, obsessive manager (Fergie/Jobs) then a surge in popularity and success.

They started with a home and away jersey, then they actually required a third kit.
You were the shít if you owned all three.

And the jerseys got changed every season.
And no discerning supporter would then be caught in last seasons jersey and were perfectly happy to spend to keep up.

Prices went up and in order to justify that the marketing came up with bull**** nonsense like 'sweat wicking fabric' and 'compression technology'. Yeah, like that's relevant when you're in the pub

Same thing with the iPhones/iPods.
New season, new model, higher prices but fundamentally the same thing that was a mixture of peer pressure and instant gratification.

murpho999

Also people complaining about the price are forgetting that this is their high end phone so it will be dearer.

Iphone 8 was launched as well at same prices as last year's 7.

_Dara_

GLaDOS wrote: »

I'd never pay that amount of money for a phone, no matter how good it is.

I usually drop back a generation with phones and get a damn good phone at a reasonable price.

Let the fanboys work out the bugs :pac:

Exactly, god bless those early adopters. :pac:

murpho999

SteM wrote: »

Lets be honest, 1% of the purchasers in Ireland will buy it outright. Everyone else will sign up for for a 24 month contract and get it heavily subsidised.

The Samsung S8 Plus is €780 off contract ffs, hardly cheap but there was no outrage thread on After Hours when it was released.

These phones are not subsidised in any way, the cost is just spread over the life of the contract.

SEPT 23 1989

Foxconn still putting them together?

Rumpy Pumpy

I got a free iPhone from work last year. Even after a year, I still can't get over how truly awful iOS is. Wouldn't spend a cent of my own money on any Apple product to be honest

neris

https://twitter.com/MrDomHarrison/status/907606663993143296

BattleCorp

Really Interested wrote: »

It's 1349 for the 256 GB and yes I will order one.

The hard drive on my first desktop computer was 2 GB. I remember the computer guy telling me that it was a state of the art computer, that 2 GB was huge and that I'd never ever fill it. That was about 25 years ago.

Times have changed a bit since eh.

_Dara_

Merrick Old Mate wrote: »

From experience, people are happy to spend 500-1000 EUR for a laptop that most of them rarely use. Yet the same people balk at spending similar money on a phone that they would use 3-4 hours per day. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't spend that sort of money on a phone myself because iPhones are absolute dog s**t.

I use my laptop WAY more for browsing than my phone. It's my far preferred method of browsage. And I use it for writing, looking at and editing photos and other things. And I'd still spend nowhere near €1000 on a laptop. I'd generally spend between €450 and €600 on one.

seamus

Apple are going to start running into an issue with their pricing and recycling model.

There are people using iPhone 5s and SE's that are going to look at the cost of any new iPhone and just say, "No way, I'm out".

Apple built an initial market share on people being given handsets for next to nothing. €50 on a 24 month contract. Now that's not happening any more. Even on a standard tariff and 24 month contract, you'll have to hand over €300 or €400 to get a handset that's already two years out of date.

So they'll see a flood of people switching to Android because the handsets are available at better prices, and there is nothing available on iPhone that's not available anywhere else. Apple placed bets on people being drawn to iMessage and Facetime, and both have failed to gain any real share of the communications market.

_Dara_

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Every "identical" twin I've known (and that's a fair few) DO have subtle differences in their faces that are detectable to the naked eye. In fact, AFAIK, no identical twins are truly 100% identical.

super_furry

I think Apple's big problem now is that there are such marginal gains from generation to generation that phones seem pretty much indistinguishable across the board and people are willing to hold onto their older models for much longer. It's not like the earlier days of IOS and Android when a new phone seemed to be such a huge jump over what had come before.

Going from a HTC One to a Galaxy 4 to an IPhone 6 felt like a big deal. Now aside from the fundamental differences between Android and IOS, which are becoming more and more insignificant, all flagship phones really feel the same. They do the same thing, run the same software and look the same.

I have an iPhone 7 now which I got last year after smashing my Galaxy 6 I think it was. I used to wait for new phone announcements and watch the press conferences with baited breath but now I'm not going to bother looking at another phone until this one is dead.

Pat Mustard

I see that the new iphone has wireless charging, which the Samsung has been doing since 2013 or so.

Another yawnfest from Apple.

mloc123

SteM wrote: »

Lets be honest, 1% of the purchasers in Ireland will buy it outright. Everyone else will sign up for for a 24 month contract and get it heavily subsidised.

The Samsung S8 Plus is €780 off contract ffs, hardly cheap but there was no outrage thread on After Hours when it was released.

But phones aren't really subsidised... the cost is just split across 24 months and included in your monthly bill. Most providers offer sim only unlimited deals for about 20e/month. So the 50/60e a month you pay on a new iPhone is to cover the handset cost.

Infini

Ill be honest I expect them to try for a month or 2 to sell them then start cutting the price to shift units that they cant sell. Even Samsung cut their S8 prices after a few weeks cos they were to expensive.

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_Dara_

donegal. wrote: »

no you didn't.
nobody you know did either.

there is no phone company giving out free or discounted iphones. Paying by installments is the most expensive way to pay for your phone.


now the next bit might come as a shock but the bank didn't give you a free house either.

My phone cost €9.99 and I'll be spending €10 extra each month by switching to billpay. It's a two year contract. So €240 extra over the two years. The phone costs €460 to buy prepay. €250 for an iPhone is very reasonable, IMO, for the use got out of it. And I'm VERY determined to stick to my contract limits! When I set my mind to something, I usually succeed.

seamus

murpho999 wrote: »

Also people complaining about the price are forgetting that this is their high end phone so it will be dearer.

Iphone 8 was launched as well at same prices as last year's 7.

Nope. The iPhone 8 is €50 more expensive at launch than the iPhone 7.

Launch price of the "high-end" phone last year - the 7+ - was €919. This year it's €1,179 for iPhone X.

They've increased prices at launch every year at least since Jobs died.

Apple are absolutely taking people for a ride, trying to see how much profit they can squeeze out of an ever-diminishing market share.