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I got my HP Pavilion 15 notebook for about $500, and my ASUS Transformer 10" pad for about $250 - and a cheapo Samsung phone for about $40, and my venerable Sony Walkman media player I got 8 years ago for $170 is still cranking. So I get all the functionality that an iPhone could give and have it be as-good-as or better quality. (I can walk around with my pad in my "purse" and have access to it anytime.)
EDIT: I can also get a good digital camera for under $100.
So what is the point of having something that costs the same as all of these items in a small smartphone whose touch is too small for fingers and video far more detailed than what anyone can see?
modified 14-Sep-17 10:23am.
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I would have to agree with, I won't buy an apple product if I can get cheap deals besides my phone is still working.
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...especially since you can get all these functionalities in a no-brand smartphone for about 1/10th of that price...
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Rage wrote: no-brand smartphone
With questionable reliability
Although, name-brand phones can be just as unreliable, so never mind 
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Bragging rights?
"I'm a jerk who can afford to drop $1K on a phone with a fruit brand"?
"I'm an idiot who can't spend my money wisely"?
Seriously, many people will get the phone as part of a contract. As far as they're concerned, paying (say) $50/month for the bragging rights is well worth it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Not sure about other parts of the world,but here in India 95% people use this as status symbol,to look rich. Don't know the reason but it's fact.
We don't have contract system here.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Rohan Leuva wrote: 95% people use this as status symbol,to look ric
Maybe. But you are talking about the percentage of people using an IPhone.
Only a very small percentage use an IPhone.
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I'd have been more precise. I exactly wanted to convey the same. If 5/10 people use it,4/5 use it just as a status symbol.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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I really wish it was a small percentage used iphones
it seems the majority of my customers use them and I usually have the following conversation at least 3 or 4 times per week
My phone says "Cannot get mail"
is it an iphone?
Yes
then throw it out the window and get something that works
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Its stupid.
No phone should be priced so high. Its not a gold-plated phone.
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Breaking the $1K thingy while sitting down is thrilling, isn't it?
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A PITA, certainly. In at least two senses. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OMG, this place is my home now. Why didn't I become a regular earlier?
People dislike apple, with valid points, people dislike javascript having their reasons, what's not to like.
Adopt me please 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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But first there is induction ceremony.
- Write a web page with plain JS, HTML and CSS.
- Write any server side logic of your choice in JS.
- Test it on all iOS platform (till latest -4 versions)
- Needless to say, #2.5 is buy your own devices for testing.
Come back with proof and we will then proceed to next stage of induction.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ragging is a felony now.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Because it has a nice shiny Apple on it!
An old acquaintance of mine once spent a stupid amount of money on a bowl. The conversation went something like this:
ME: How much????!!!!
HIM: A hundred quid.
ME: A hundred quid for a goddamn bowl????!!!!
HIM: It's not just any bowl, it's a Kelly Hoppen bowl! It's amazing!
ME: What does it do that a non-Kelly Hoppen bowl doesn't do?
HIM: You don't understand - it's a Kelly Hoppen bowl!
ME: What do Kelly Hoppen's bowls do that normal people's bowls don't do?
HIM: It's the way that they combine form and function.
ME: Don't all bowls combine form and function?
HIM: Maybe, but not the way that Kelly's do.
ME: This really doesn't seem to be formatically or functionally different from a £2 bowl from ASDA, if I'm honest. You've been ripped for ninety-eight quid.
HIM: No, I haven't! It's a Kelly Hoppen bowl.
ME: Okay, whatever. Still sounds a touch pricey to me. Who the elephant is this Kelly Hoppen woman anyway?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Happens every time. iPhone comes out, charges more, the other companies raise their prices based on that standard.
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Minor edits:
I am in my gastroenterologist's office, inquire about replacing my touchy colon and am given a price quote:
ME: How much????!!!!
HIM: A hundred quid.
ME: A hundred quid for a goddamn bowel????!!!!
HIM: It's not just any bowel, it's Kelly Hoppen's bowel! It's amazing!
ME: What does it do that a non-Kelly Hoppen bowel doesn't do?
HIM: You don't understand - it's a Kelly Hoppen bowel!
ME: What do Kelly Hoppen's bowels do that normal people's bowels don't do?
HIM: It's the way that they combine form and function.
ME: Don't all bowels combine form and function?
HIM: Maybe, but not the way that Kelly's does.
ME: This really doesn't seem to be formatically or functionally different from a £2 bowel from ASDA, if I'm honest. You've been ripped for ninety-eight quid.
HIM: No, I haven't! It's a Kelly Hoppen bowel.
ME: Okay, whatever. Still sounds a touch pricey to me. Who the elephant is this Kelly Hoppen woman anyway?
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If you don't buy it the ghost of Steve Jobs will appear and demand an annual stipend and a large cut of all future sales of your software.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm with you. I just bought a high end development laptop. I spent more than normal - usual budget is 1.5k, I spent 1.9. It will easily last 4 years, so good investment.
$1k on a phone? You have to have your head examined. Worse, I will go to my daughter's high school volleyball game and see all of her friends with these phones. Parents these days are insane.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I just bought a high end development laptop. I spent more than normal - usual budget is 1.5k, I spent 1.9. It will easily last 4 years, so good investment.
<Luddite mode> OMG! Who on earth would spend almost 2 thousand dollars on a stupid laptop? Idiots, that who. I have a $150 Chromebook that does everything I need. Anybody who spends more than $500 on a laptop is just doing it as a status symbol. Pretentious pricks every one!</Luddite mode>
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Must've been doing just web surfing. Me? A mere beefed up laptop won't cut it. I need a custom build desktop with liquid cool, with at least dual 1080 GPU card. Forget about the tablet and the phone.
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charlieg wrote: Parents these days are insane.
20 years ago I remember wandering through a department store looking for kids jeans and coming across some that were more than $100.
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