Official iPhone X Thread - Who wants to spend $1150 for animated emojis?

Haha, math fail. 5*24 is $120, not 200-300. And this is why you spend stupid amounts of money on a phone and will work until you're 70 and I'll be retired in by my mid-50's

asdfasdfa wrote:

It is 200-300 more than the 8/8s. That is like 5 bucks/month over the 2 year lifespan of the phone.

bkrunner wrote:

I have questions:

1. What happened to iPhone 9? Did they just skip it completely? Today they released an iPhone 8 and an iPhone 10 (technically iPhone X, but they were pronouncing it "iPhone 10"). Will there still be a 9 next year? Very confusing.

2. How can they justify this price? The Samsung S8 has pretty much all of this stuff already, including an arguably better camera. Plus, the iPhone X "wraparound" display doesn't look like it actually wraps around in the same way the Samsung one does. I don't know why anyone would fork over that sort of cash for an iPhone when they could get a similar (maybe better) product for less. Maybe some people are just so obsessed with Apple that they're willing to pay a premium, even if it's not a rational decision? Or maybe they really want those emojis?

1. I think they went with iPhone X, skipping the 9, because this was the 10th anniversary of the initial iPhone launch.

2. It isn't like the flagship Samsung phones are much cheaper. This is the future of the top notch phones.

Hopefully someone can help me. My question is, what is the future of smartphones?

Will smartphones continue having a home button or are all moving away from that to full-screen displays?

What kind of phone will Apple release next year? Will they continue to make phones with a button like the 8, or will they just improve on the X?

If they will only improve on the X, how will they make it affordable for the mass-market? Most people can't afford to pay $1100 for a phone.

Today I learned Rojo runs in Tracksmith shorts while carrying an iPhone.

Not like I didn't suspect that anyway.

Curious Kid:

The phone era is nearly over. We have a few years left with Apple and Samsung somehow getting people to fork over way too much money, while the rest of the world gets by with sub-$200 phones that are just as good. Maybe 5 years to go, certainly no more than 10. We're beyond Peak Phone.

But look at Google Glass. Look at the Apple watch with LTE inside. Look at those Bluetooth earbuds. Look at the iPhone X (computer). The future is integrated wearables, likely some sort of earbud(s)/watch producing a hologram on demand, or a screen wherever you touch ala' the Total Recall remake. Maybe you'll 'cast' your screen to wherever you want, and only you can see it through your glasses?

I'm all for the portable computer-as-phone, but the network will probably beat that - I can already run virtual whatever off nearly everything anyway.

Tim Cook loves Cck wrote:

The new watch is probably a better thing to discuss here. If it finally doesn't suck for running and allows to export activities, having an lte chip on your wrist is pretty cool. Would be nice to have live tracking so the wife feels better about some of the long runs without dragging a phone with me, same thing with the ability to imessage/take a call in an emergency without a (second) big black thing in my pocket.

Your wife makes you take a phone on runs? 😂😂😂

rojo wrote:

I've thought of another reason to get the X. It's basically gives you the screen size of the plus but is almost the same size as the regular iphone.

I like the large screen size of my plus but hate its size. When I run, I often take my wife's old regular iphone as it fits in my tracksmith shorts as they have a special pocket for a regular iphone. I wonder if the X will fit in it. Of course, the only reason I take a phone with me is so I can stream pandora or the radio so maybe I should just get one of these watches.

So you're complaining about a $1k phone (~ 5x the cheapest available smart phone), but you wear $90 shorts (~ 9x the cheapest shorts). Seems like this is the definition of "different strokes for different folks."

Harambe wrote:

You know you want it.

Good old American innovation. We may be 2 years behind the competition but we are still going to win.

Yesterday my wife pegged me with a pineapple (her well-hung black boyfriend filmed us). It was then that I realized I want the newest Iphone. Who could've known?

I'm going to buy the iPhone X and I don't care that it costs $1k and I'm pretty pumped to get it. I use my phone every single day for a variety of things. I've had my phone 6 for 4 years now and just recently the screen cracked. So I'm due. If I have this phone for as long it'll cost me $250 a year. Thats nothing.

Heres something else for you - samsung phones suck. I used to have one for work, the Galaxy X5 I think it was. Battery sucked. OS sucked. Everything about it sucked except maybe the camera.

You can compare Apple phones to Samsung phones if you want to argue Samsung is better, but you can't compare them as companies. The reason Apple is often behind Samsung is because Apple is infinitely more profitable. They'd rather save a dollar in their supply chain by using established technology then overspending to eek out 1% more performance. The result is iPhones often have better parts and efficiency while Samsung phones perform 1% better while overheating. There's no need to bang on a desk and yell that one is better than the other. Just accept that Apple has chosen to run a more stable company by not hemorrhaging profitability to chase cutting edge specification performance. Samsung has been able to use revenue to overcome slim profit margin, but they'll need to change their marketing strategy drastically if Google's HTC Pixel steals too much Android market share.

You mean the Pixel that's been out for almost a year? Way to keep up with the times. A more relevant comparison would have been the Essential phone, but that's basically DOA already.

Nobody is breaking into the Samsung/Apple duopoly. Ever.

What I don't understand is what makes the iPhone X materially better than previous iterations so as to justify the extraordinary cost. The screen? My iPhone 6+ is really good as is. It's crisp, the colors are vibrant, and it's bright. The camera? Perhaps, but again my iPhone 6+ takes really good pictures as is for what most people use an iPhone to shoot. If you're doing serious photography, you'll shoot with a camera with a much bigger sensor. I don't understand the benefit of Face ID over Touch ID. Touch ID requires fewer steps to work and it's nearly 100% effective (Face ID didn't work so great at the reveal). You have to wonder if the driving force behind Face ID was solely to eliminate the home button to free up an extra half inch of bezel, in which case you get a whopping extra half inch of display for a device that is already significantly and inherently compromised in size because it's a phone. I'm more than willing to pay for a better phone but have to admit Apple didn't sell me on the need to upgrade this time around.

The iPhone X, and 8 and 8+, have chips that performance-wise are better than the current Macbook Pro. Much of the has to do with iOS vs OS X, but the performance is much better that current Samsung phones. Samsung will likely match that before the next iPhone gets released. But it runs Android that comes will all the Google terms and conditions that take away much of your privacy--such as, your web browsing never gets deleted; it is always somewhere on a Google server.

Beautiful Day wrote:

Today I learned Rojo runs in Tracksmith shorts while carrying an iPhone.

Not like I didn't suspect that anyway.

I'm a wannabe hobby jogger this summer. Calf has been bothering me. I bet I have less than 30 miles per month.

In this thread:

People assign different values to the iPhone X and allocate their resources accordingly.

This whole phone 'rivalry' thing is weird. If you want to spend $1000 on a phone, then go for it, why the hell should I care what phone someone else chooses or how much they spend?

Just like I couldn't give a damn how much the next man spends on his car or his clothes. Get a phone that suits you, that you're happy to pay for and leave it at that.

Swiper no swiping wrote:

This whole phone 'rivalry' thing is weird. If you want to spend $1000 on a phone, then go for it, why the hell should I care what phone someone else chooses or how much they spend?

Just like I couldn't give a damn how much the next man spends on his car or his clothes. Get a phone that suits you, that you're happy to pay for and leave it at that.

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Swiper no swiping wrote:

This whole phone 'rivalry' thing is weird. If you want to spend $1000 on a phone, then go for it, why the hell should I care what phone someone else chooses or how much they spend?

Just like I couldn't give a damn how much the next man spends on his car or his clothes. Get a phone that suits you, that you're happy to pay for and leave it at that.

FYI, there are quite a few runners on these boards for desperately need to know what shoes or spikes another runner is wearing. They must have the same; damn the cost.