“Investment firm Piper Jaffray recently polled more than 400 consumers from around the U.S. and Asia in its annual cell phone survey,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “The surveys were conducted in larger cities, which resulted in more than half of users being iPhone owners.”
“Analyst Gene Munster and team asked participants to come up with a dollar value for how much their current phone is worth to them,” Hughes reports. “The survey found that among the 208 current iPhone users, the average value was $313, which is over $100 more than the subsidized price of the 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S.”
Hughes reports, “In comparison, users of Android handsets said their current smartphone was worth $220 on average, while BlackBerry smartphone owners pegged the value of their device at $219.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The reason that those who’ve settled for BlackBerry and Android even value their devices that much is because they don’t know what they’re missing.
Ignorance is bliss, even if it is 30% less blissful than that of the average iPhone user.
To those stuck with non-iPhones: You know you wanted an iPhone. Next time, don’t settle for antiquated tech or a pale imitation. Nothing’s as good as the real thing.