9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
Sue-zz The acidic UK press seized on the $1000+ cost of the xPhone calling it extortion. (Don't forget to add $150 for a Burberry case, and $199 for AppleCare.) Tim Cook, purveyor of iDreams, said you could own one for the price of a daily boutique coffee:
" I think you would find you could buy an iPhone X for $33 a month," said Cook. "And so if you think about that, that's a few coffees a week. It's let's say less than a coffee a day at one of these nice coffee places." (CNBC)
You can't put a price on status symbols. :-)
At the other end of the scale there is (in Yoorop) a growing fanbase of Shenzen-built Androids, as low as €30. There's a trend for the lads to take a cheap flight to Shenzen for the weekend and bring back a case-full of Cubots, Xiomi's, iClones, and Doogees to sell in bars in Amsterdam and Paris.
The Yoorop Customs people are impounding them at airports as counterfeits, though you can still bring in one for personal use.
A new boxed Bold 9900 is
just £79.95 on Ebay here. “I’m not using the iPhone 6S, that’s the phone of the poor!”
https://www.cnet.com/products/vertu-...touch/preview/
Too bad about Vertu, the luxury British phone maker, but I guess they had a good run of around 10 years before going out of buisness just a few months ago. I always found it odd that they stuck with Nokia for most of their pieces but they did dabble in Android by the looks of it.
They sold around 350,000 units a year and they weren’t exactly budget priced :p
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
RCJ28 I don't think iPhones (or even iPhone X's, though only time can tell at this point) are as much status symbols as people make them out to be. Or, rather, they don't remain status symbols for very long before becoming ubiquitous after only a matter of weeks. I guess I did just fawn over a coworkers launch-day iPhone X not an hour ago for a good ten minutes, but that will fade quickly with time.
I had a launch day iPhone 7 Plus which got some attention for a couple of weeks before no one cared and everyone else had one as well -- though that might not be a good example as they had the same form factor, at first glance, as an iPhone 6 Plus. Interestingly enough, since I set aside that 7 Plus for a new iPhone SE a month or so ago, I've received more attention on behalf of that bottom-rung phone than I ever did when I had the flagship model. Though it's probably not the attention you would want from a status symbol! It's more of the "how could you use such a tiny iPhone!" and "you are crazy!" variety.
I wonder what people will say tomorrow when I bring in my "new" 9930...
Of course if everything is produced in mass numbers interest fades because everyone will have one eventually. But Apple has only made between 2 to 3,000,000 iPhone tens, this is not enough to keep up with the demand even though people were screaming they would never pay the price they sold out quickly, and now there’s about a five week waiting list.
I drive a Buick, it’s nothing special. Remember when Buick used to put “limited” on every single Buick they made practically lol, there was nothing “limited” about them. And like Seinfeld said they made “millions” of them. (For a joke) But limited numbers of anything ensures the exclusivity and keeping people demanding more is exactly what they’re hoping for I bet because then people pay more, and they have.
Of course, If you consider that Apple sells their older Devices as the more budget friendly tools, then it’s true these ones are not status items anymore, but this is why they make a new model every year.
https://amp.businessinsider.com/ipho...samsung-2015-1
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
danfrancisco If I recall, the SIM card can only hold about 250 contacts (if that) and she's got way more than that. It also won't help with transferring all of her SMS messages either.
You mentioned Link in your previous post, but that's not the software you need. BlackBerry Desktop is the software for backing up / restoring / transferring BB OS device data. Link is for BB10 devices.
The nice thing is that BB Desktop works very well. Link is far less stable and reliable.