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

Tim Cook loves asdfasf 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.

Very true.

Never been a smart watch fan but this is finally useful for exercising. I've never carried a phone when I run.

Prices are up ^^ up here in Canada. $1,319 for the X. Might have to go for an 8 because that's wild for the X.

Iwatch? That's what you guys want to talk about. Come on now.

Don't we all want to talk about how we can now spend $1150 on a phone so we can send animated emojis?

-Rojo

PS. Animated emojis should be outlawed if one of the recipients isn't under the age of 13.

PPS. I added, " Who wants to spend $1150 for animated emojis?" to the title just to anger the iphone fanboys and girls.

You know you want it.

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

Who wants to spend $1150?

The same person that spends $82 for a sleeveless hooded sweatshirt from Oiselle.

The same person that can't see the value in buying a $10 hooded sweatshirt and cutting off the sleeves yourself to create the same product.

"But it's Oiselle!"

"But it's Apple!"

I just don't care about the latest smart phones. At all. Let alone spending more than a couple hundred on them. But I do prefer the iOS over Android, so I'm riding this iPhone SE until it does.

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.

Anyone who camps outside a store to get a new apple product should be euthanized. Just sayin. Also paying that amount of money for a phone makes you either incredibly rich and/or stupid. For most people it's solely the latter and their phone is loan in disguise.

It's an egregious price but I use my phone A LOT.

I like having it fast, long battery, good functionality.

A nice camera is essential as I don't carry another camera with me.

It's my go to for watching movies/shows on places (I don't have a tablet and my laptop is cumbersome) so a good screen is worth it.

In all -- I can justify upgrading every 2 years or so.

HELP! HELP! HELP! wrote:

Who wants to spend $1150?

The same person that spends $82 for a sleeveless hooded sweatshirt from Oiselle.

The same person that can't see the value in buying a $10 hooded sweatshirt and cutting off the sleeves yourself to create the same product.

"But it's Oiselle!"

"But it's Apple!"

exactly. Just chop off the bottom part of your iPhone 6 and you have an iPhone X "complete" without a fingerprint sensor and audio jack 😂

Speaking of Oiselle, did you see Goucher at the iPhone announcement? Flew her in for it. Hooked her up with free stuff too. That should make the letsrun haters crazy...

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?

HELP! HELP! HELP! wrote:

Who wants to spend $1150?

The same person that spends $82 for a sleeveless hooded sweatshirt from Oiselle.

The same person that can't see the value in buying a $10 hooded sweatshirt and cutting off the sleeves yourself to create the same product.

"But it's Oiselle!"

"But it's Apple!"

You just made the day of all the women at the corporate Oiselle offices. Comparing the products of Apple to Oiselle. That is a pretty big compliment.

Was thinking about starting a gofundme campaign to get me the new iPhone. I I know a lot is being asked of people right now, as far as donations to relief efforts in Houston and Florida, as well as the Northwest, but I personally think me having the new iPhone is a much better investment than giving your money to some organization where you don't know how your money is being spent.

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

the main benefit of the new iphone with this ridiculous price tag is that it helps to identify idiots.

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.

That still doesn't answer the question. Why would someone pay $200-300 more for something that isn't any better?

bkrunner wrote:

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.

That still doesn't answer the question. Why would someone pay $200-300 more for something that isn't any better?

Yes, like why buy the lightest, super expensive, running shoes when much cheaper running shoes do the same job?

honest runner wrote:

the main benefit of the new iphone with this ridiculous price tag is that it helps to identify idiots.

same as IDing guys who try talking to people about their running accomplishments.

bkrunner wrote:

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.

That still doesn't answer the question. Why would someone pay $200-300 more for something that isn't any better?

It is better - nicer screen and camera (important for me; I want to be able to take lots of nice pictures of my kids).

I use my phone all the time. I upgrade every year because it's nice to have the best version of anything I use that much. I can afford it. Why wouldn't I go for it?