OT: If I'm Apple? I change the biz model

[purplefaithful]

Releasing a new iPhone (or 2) every year is ridiculous...Too much pressure for innovation when it's impossible to have enough meaningful innovation to get people to pay $800+ for a new phone annually. 

The mobile phone game changed when the $200 subsidized phone went the way of the Dinosaur.

Same thing goes for Samsung.  Update the camera, maybe a processor and call it an update. These big unveilings for moderate innovation is just stupid and hammers stock prices.

[Guest]

I haven't paid for a personal smart phone/cell phone for over 20 years, I've always used my work phone for both personal and business. I always get the latest and greatest at no personal expense to myself. Same with gas, all my gas is covered by my company and has been for a long time.

I'm always at a loss when friends/acquaintances talk gas prices or costs of phones because I just dont pay attention. 

[Guest]

I take care of my phones, but the providers make them outdated around the 2 year mark when they push out updates that a detrimental to battery life and make your phone slow down. Very frustrating. Now they want you to set into monthly device payments. I used to only renew contract when I would get a free phone on black Friday and I really needed a new device. I suppose us responsible people werent making them enough money

[Guest]

@SkolVikings44 said:
I take care of my phones, but the providers make them outdated around the 2 year mark when they push out updates that a detrimental to battery life and make your phone slow down. Very frustrating. Now they want you to set into monthly device payments. I used to only renew contract when I would get a free phone on black Friday and I really needed a new device. I suppose us responsible people werent making them enough money

I never update my phone because it is a ruse to harm the battery.  

[Guest]

@A1Janitor said:

@SkolVikings44 said:
I take care of my phones, but the providers make them outdated around the 2 year mark when they push out updates that a detrimental to battery life and make your phone slow down. Very frustrating. Now they want you to set into monthly device payments. I used to only renew contract when I would get a free phone on black Friday and I really needed a new device. I suppose us responsible people werent making them enough money

I never update my phone because it is a ruse to harm the battery.  

i dont know that they harm the battery,  but I think they push through new software that is more of a burden on the operating system and thusly using more battery to perform the new tasks and shit asked of the phone.

[Guest]

They harm the battery by inserting hidden programs to wear the batteries down.  

I stopped updates years ago and my batteries improved.  

[Guest]

Read a great article a couple months ago where even the Chinese are getting turned off by Apple's frequent "upgrades" and rising prices. Buying cheaper domestic phones or Korean models.

[Guest]

Im at a point where i strongly perfer my PC to my smartphone for anything that isnt an emergency or things that are neck aching time suckers.

My smartphone has been relegated to occasional emails on the go, being my 2fa middleman, and gasp... phone calls.

[Guest]

Bought a reconditioned iPhone 6 nearly 3 years ago, replaced the battery in it last summer. I wont buy anything new anymore when it comes to a phone.

I am able to use my iPad at work, and use that almost exclusively at home.

[Guest]

@Riphawkins said:
Bought a reconditioned iPhone 6 nearly 3 years ago, replaced the battery in it last summer. I wont buy anything new anymore when it comes to a phone.

I am able to use my iPad at work, and use that almost exclusively at home.

How much did it cost?