iPhone Users About To Be Mad

[Chip Skylark]

I can’t front I switched to apple when the 11 pro max was released and over time it’s kind of sucked. That last update was terrible and the experimental features turned on automatically and I couldn’t do Jack shyt online

 

[KING WILL]

On the one hand, I could see this since other companies have shown that it’s possible to operate a business just renting off of Verizon and AT&T towers. On the other hand, I always assumed that VZW/AT&T rented out the mid frequencies (or whatever the correct term is). I can’t picture Apple accepting mid service and I couldn’t imagine VZW/AT&T renting non-mid frequencies at a price at which a profitable business could be sustained.

Apple would be using their own satellites, not leasing cell tower bandwidth.

 

[STAN JONES]

Here’s intriguing part: what’s to stop Apple from jacking up the sale cost to make that buy in full “option” not really an option.

They’ve already been doing that

you haven’t noticed how much phones have went up the past few years?

didnt the Galaxy Note cost like $1500 or some ridiculous price close to that?

I remember when them shyts used to be $700-$800

 

[phcitywarrior]

I can’t front I switched to apple when the 11 pro max was released and over time it’s kind of sucked. That last update was terrible and the experimental features turned on automatically and I couldn’t do Jack shyt online

I swear each update has a bug in it to stop prior models from working at 100%. The 15 update got my messages all glitchy, always crashing etc.

 

[phcitywarrior]

They’ve already been doing that

you haven’t noticed how much phones have went up the past few years?

didnt the Galaxy Note cost like $1500 or some ridiculous price close to that?

I remember when them shyts used to be $700-$800

Yep. Where they really get you is with the storage. Instead of having expandable storage with the memory card, you gotta buy more.

 

[Chip Skylark]

I swear each update has a bug in it to stop prior models from working at 100%. The 15 update got my messages all glitchy, always crashing etc.

same I’ve gotten the black connect to update twice since the update

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

They’ve already been doing that

you haven’t noticed how much phones have went up the past few years?

didnt the Galaxy Note cost like $1500 or some ridiculous price close to that?

I remember when them shyts used to be $700-$800

a lot of people still buy phones outright. I’m one of them. Cuz it’s financially is better than the monthly charge. If Apple artificially raise the price to $2k but offered payment plans with monthly charges based on a $1k cost, I would go the payment plan route. That’s what this “subscription based hardware” option allows them to effectively do.

 

[SupaHotIce]

The idea is to beam internet service directly to devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to provide access to the web all without traditional wireless networks and cell towers. That could be absolutely huge for the Cupertino, California-based company, if true. It could, in theory, make it possible for the company to bypass ties with internet service providers, doling out its own service along with its devices.

Why is your text manually black?

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Apple would be using their own satellites, not leasing cell tower bandwidth.

Ok, then I’m less believing of this theory. That’s a magnificent task.

Actually, fukk that, Google is already standing up fiber optic networks to be an ISP. No reason Apple couldn’t dive into this.

 

[KING WILL]

Why is your text manually black?

That's a copy n paste.

 

[DatBoiHawk]

#ownmyiphone gang sitting pretty

 

[Menna]

If you have money you don't care

 

[Black Panther]

That Pixel 6 looking better and better

 

[STAN JONES]

a lot of people still buy phones outright. I’m one of them. Cuz it’s financially is better than the monthly charge. If Apple artificially raise the price to $2k but offered payment plans with monthly charges based on a $1k cost, I would go the payment plan route. That’s what this “subscription based hardware” option allows them to effectively do.

that wouldn’t make any sense

im pretty sure they’d prefer people buy the phones outright

theyre just doing this for the broke boys who can’t afford to pay for the phone all at once

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

that wouldn’t make any sense

im pretty sure they’d prefer people buy the phones outright

theyre just doing this for the broke boys who can’t afford to pay for the phone all at once

Not if they prefer the subscription based path. That’s kinda the point of the thread.

“Broke boys” already have an option with payment plans, so there’s no way that was the reason to explore subscription based hardware.