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“As with nearly any purchase, there are three prices to consider in buying a mobile phone,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
• Upfront cost on the day of purchase.
• Total cost of ownership over its lifetime.
• Resale value after it is replaced.
For example, ;A $600 PC laptop that costs half as much as a new Mac Book–but which is worthless after two years of grief–isn’t really a good deal considering that the Mac Book would easily command more second hand after two years than the “savings” offered by a generic laptop,” Eran writes.
Apple’s iPhone “is cheaper overall than other phones when considering total cost of ownership over its lifetime, even much cheaper phones with a subsidized upfront cost. Obviously, more expensive phones that compare to the iPhone in features are even more expensive when a service plan is included,” Eran writes.
“The next time you hear a pundit referring to the iPhone’s ‘$2000’ price or its ‘50% profit margin,’ you can rest assured that ignoring the rest of their comments is probably the best way to avoid being mislead by the noise of their desperate astroturfing,” Eran writes.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Too Hot!” for the heads up.]
Since I bought the iphone its hard to keep it clean. I just cant keep peoples hands off it.
Posted from my iphone.
morecrap claims “This is the most biased commentary I have ever read. He does nothing but make proclamations of his opinion with nothing to back them up.”
Those claims are certainly “biased”, but that does not make them “wrong”. Most of us get along just fine with our biases every day. What bothered me was the cross-product analysis. Now, I just did such an analysis for a friend – $1k MacBook vs a $500 PC laptop. I asked about her need for a camera and the iLife package … she needs both. A few questions later and the price difference was nearly made up – and I’d said nothing about the convenience of her not having to build her system almost from scratch or of her not having to deal with malware. BUT! That’s the MacBook vs a PC, NOT an iPhone vs “whatever”. Is it a “Good Buy”? Not for me. Certainly for someone who will use most of the features.
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I work in IT and at work me and the other IT guy both have Iphones. People are always like haha you paid too much for that phone, and we just laugh cause we know the truth. But on thursday, i decided to put an end to the stupid people comments. During a meeting I was still getting the comments, so I stood up and pointed out to each person. “Plant manager” do you know how much your phone cost? No he replied, $1000 bucks not including the 150 bucks a month for service, mine cost 600 and i pay 60. HR guy yours is 600 bucks and about the same in plan rate. Should i go on, they just sat there looking at me. I ended my argument with yeah, and I can play videos and stuff the real web unlike your 1000 blackberry with crap keyboard.
Them what’s ignorant will attack what they don’t know.
@Gill
He told me that it was iTunes that told him. I don’t know if that was true but that is the story he told me. He is a die hard Windows fan and never thought he would ever buy a Mac. But he really likes the iPhone and needed to have it and spend whatever it took to have the most recent gadget.
Hey lighten up, if Gills “diehard” Windows fan, had to spread a little FUD, on why he made the switch, at least he saw the light!!.
Same subject,(sorta of) I pulled that with the wife, last July while in the States, pulled her into an Apple store (our 1st), with the intent (what I told her) of buying a mini, and using my HP monitor and keyboard.
After spending some time looking at all the options, we walked out with a 20″iMac (her idea)
now, 3 MacBooks, Apple Tv, later, our only regret, is if we had invested that 2000usd in Apple stock, I could buy our whole Apple inventory with that investment
iPhone: $600 + rate plan
Great feeling while using it: Priceless
(not to mention the envious looks of potential buyers and the disgusted reaction from insecure iPhone haters)
@hotinplaya
Thank you. I did not want to embarass my friend. He is one of those guys that types with one finger so I took, with a grain of salt, the things he said. He knows I’m a power Windows and OS X user. That being said, he really likes the Macintosh now and never knew he could do the things that us Apple fans take for granted. He did not know you could run Windows and has now asked for my help to install bootcamp and run some of his windows programs. Slowly and surely, the light is showing upon those who have never seen it before. It is up to us, that have seen the light, and share that with others……
Gil,
get your buddy to install Parallels. He’ll be happier and abandon MS for good soon enough.
i hear you all raving about the new apple iphone would i be able to buy one in las vegas at the end of the month when i am on holiday and will it work in the uk