Bouzoo

1 hour ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

The only "budget" models Apple sells are previous iPhone models. Minus the iPhone SE, iPhones usually only cater to the high-end.

I mean, that was a rhetorical question, but that is pretty much how I think about them.

But just to put it in perspective, even for a premium device they are ridiculously inflated. I can get a 128 GB Note 9, brand new, from the official seller, for $30 than I can pre-order a 64GB iPhone XR. Yes, XR. We are not talking carriers or contract, we are talking the price from 2 "main" official sellers in my country, one time on cash. I am not sure how anyone (not you) can comment that price is not a valid criticism.

7 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

I would be much more compelled by this if so much of it was not dedicated to the price of iOS devices (which start at $499 btw so don't act like the only phone Apple sells costs $1,000). Almost everything else I see as a valid criticism that people can hold even if I don't believe those reasons matter in any significant way. 

It is far from the truth that Apple is the only one that sells expensive devices. Pricing of Android has been messed up for flagships for years. What Android does have, is much cheaper new mid rangers or last year flaships, and if we're honest, even most new flagshipsif not all, cost hundreds of $ less than flagship iPhone do, and you have much wider range on how much money you can spend to get a phone. But then again Samsung makes more new phone per year than Apple has in its lifetime, so there is that. But iPhones wete always a Premiun device, no? As far as I can see, in most countries new iPhones cost more than most, if not all competition, and you have only 3 devices, which in my country cost an arm and a leg. The least expensive XR costs $1100 here while the least expensive XS Max is $1700-1800. You tell me if pricing is a valid criticism. 

I am so saving this and linking it on every app thread from now on. 
But you really bothered to look up/save all the threads and post them sorted out separately in spoilers? Now that's worrying.