Other than being able to be kept in a pocket, why would anyone want a $1K iPhone instead of a notebook & pad?
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
Bragging rights? "I'm a jerk who can afford to drop $1K on a phone with a fruit brand"? "I'm an idiot who can't spend my money wisely"? Seriously, many people will get the phone as part of a contract. As far as they're concerned, paying (say) $50/month for the bragging rights is well worth it.
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
Not sure about other parts of the world,but here in India 95% people use this as status symbol,to look rich. Don't know the reason but it's fact. We don't have contract system here.
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Not sure about other parts of the world,but here in India 95% people use this as status symbol,to look rich. Don't know the reason but it's fact. We don't have contract system here.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
Rohan Leuva wrote:
95% people use this as status symbol,to look ric
Maybe. But you are talking about the percentage of people using an IPhone. Only a very small percentage use an IPhone.
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
Its stupid. No phone should be priced so high. Its not a gold-plated phone.
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Rohan Leuva wrote:
95% people use this as status symbol,to look ric
Maybe. But you are talking about the percentage of people using an IPhone. Only a very small percentage use an IPhone.
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I'd have been more precise. I exactly wanted to convey the same. If 5/10 people use it,4/5 use it just as a status symbol.
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Its stupid. No phone should be priced so high. Its not a gold-plated phone.
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
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A PITA, certainly. In at least two senses. ;)
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
OMG, this place is my home now. Why didn't I become a regular earlier? People dislike apple, with valid points, people dislike javascript having their reasons, what's not to like. Adopt me please ;P
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OMG, this place is my home now. Why didn't I become a regular earlier? People dislike apple, with valid points, people dislike javascript having their reasons, what's not to like. Adopt me please ;P
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock. In fact, I hate knocking.
But first there is induction ceremony. 1. Write a web page with plain JS, HTML and CSS. 2. Write any server side logic of your choice in JS. 3. Test it on all iOS platform (till latest -4 versions) 4. Needless to say, #2.5 is buy your own devices for testing. Come back with proof and we will then proceed to next stage of induction.
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But first there is induction ceremony. 1. Write a web page with plain JS, HTML and CSS. 2. Write any server side logic of your choice in JS. 3. Test it on all iOS platform (till latest -4 versions) 4. Needless to say, #2.5 is buy your own devices for testing. Come back with proof and we will then proceed to next stage of induction.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
Because it has a nice shiny Apple on it! An old acquaintance of mine once spent a stupid amount of money on a bowl. The conversation went something like this: ME: How much????!!!! HIM: A hundred quid. ME: A hundred quid for a goddamn bowl????!!!! HIM: It's not just any bowl, it's a Kelly Hoppen bowl! It's amazing! ME: What does it do that a non-Kelly Hoppen bowl doesn't do? HIM: You don't understand - it's a Kelly Hoppen bowl! ME: What do Kelly Hoppen's bowls do that normal people's bowls don't do? HIM: It's the way that they combine form and function. ME: Don't all bowls combine form and function? HIM: Maybe, but not the way that Kelly's do. ME: This really doesn't seem to be formatically or functionally different from a £2 bowl from ASDA, if I'm honest. You've been ripped for ninety-eight quid. HIM: No, I haven't! It's a Kelly Hoppen bowl. ME: Okay, whatever. Still sounds a touch pricey to me. Who the elephant is this Kelly Hoppen woman anyway?
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
If you don't buy it the ghost of Steve Jobs will appear and demand an annual stipend and a large cut of all future sales of your software.
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...especially since you can get all these functionalities in a no-brand smartphone for about 1/10th of that price...
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
I'm with you. I just bought a high end development laptop. I spent more than normal - usual budget is 1.5k, I spent 1.9. It will easily last 4 years, so good investment. $1k on a phone? You have to have your head examined. Worse, I will go to my daughter's high school volleyball game and see all of her friends with these phones. Parents these days are insane.
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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.) EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100. So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
Really? 4 average (at best) devices that probably use at least 3 different charging cables and you need a purse or backpack to carry them all with you. Data transfer between the 4 devices is crappy (at best). And there isn't a decent camera on any of them. You really don't understand the idea of a really nice smart phone?
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Really? 4 average (at best) devices that probably use at least 3 different charging cables and you need a purse or backpack to carry them all with you. Data transfer between the 4 devices is crappy (at best). And there isn't a decent camera on any of them. You really don't understand the idea of a really nice smart phone?
really. I think $1,000 for a phone, and right there, that is likely the problem.
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Really? 4 average (at best) devices that probably use at least 3 different charging cables and you need a purse or backpack to carry them all with you. Data transfer between the 4 devices is crappy (at best). And there isn't a decent camera on any of them. You really don't understand the idea of a really nice smart phone?
Don't think a notebook and a smartphone have the same functions anyway. Spending 1K for a really nice smartphone that doesn't what you want to but, has a really good camera, awesome video quality and does everything else in the world. Good trade I'd say.
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really. I think $1,000 for a phone, and right there, that is likely the problem.
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charlieg wrote:
I think $1,000 for a phone, and right there, that is likely the problem.
:confused: But he spent $1000 on 4 devices that even together in many ways aren't as good as the phone. I'm not suggesting that a high end smart phone is the right fit for everyone but I find it amazing that so many folks here (on a tech site) are so short sighted as to not see beyond their own personal situation. Sheesh!
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I'm with you. I just bought a high end development laptop. I spent more than normal - usual budget is 1.5k, I spent 1.9. It will easily last 4 years, so good investment. $1k on a phone? You have to have your head examined. Worse, I will go to my daughter's high school volleyball game and see all of her friends with these phones. Parents these days are insane.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
charlieg wrote:
I just bought a high end development laptop. I spent more than normal - usual budget is 1.5k, I spent 1.9. It will easily last 4 years, so good investment.
<Luddite mode> OMG! Who on earth would spend almost 2 thousand dollars on a stupid laptop? Idiots, that who. I have a $150 Chromebook that does everything I need. Anybody who spends more than $500 on a laptop is just doing it as a status symbol. Pretentious pricks every one!</Luddite mode> :rolleyes:
