Did it take you all day to go and hunt down the figures? Sorry I didn’t look into it in depth (I just compared what I paid last year to the cost this year for the same model)
Your use of sarcasm to deflect from my point is rather unhelpful. But if you want to use figures to dispute my point then you should at least look into them more closely. Oh, and it took me less than a minute.
If you really want to get real.
If people are still using crappy lightning EarPods, let them pay for them rather than making the rest of us that don’t use them pay to leave them in the box unused
If people can’t afford the new iPhone because their wage hasn’t risen inline with with having to pay an extra £19 for a charger for a phone costing hundreds, maybe they should stick with their old phone and not upgrade.
I find this statement breathtaking in a financial climate where millions of people are struggling to make ends meet and are losing their jobs. Plus you haven't addressed my point, which is that there is a £100+ and double digit % price increase on the standard iPhone model. You also probably haven't noticed Apple's sneaky, significant hike in the cost of repairing an iPhone 12 (up to 40% more to repair than the iPhone 11).
However, the models you are talking about have seen the biggest tech increase from last year, with them now being much closer to the pro models with the upgrade to OLED, and that ain’t free. If they’d have stayed with LCD screens and kept the price low, I expect people would have just moaned about that too.
It's Apple's job to keep its products up to date and let's face it, all Apple is doing with the iPhone 12 is playing catch up with its competitors and giving us the phone the iPhone 11 should have been. Maybe next year it will finally lose the notch and add £100 to the price in the process?
The pro models have all (as far as I’m aware, I can’t be arsed to look into it that deeply) had a price reduction in real terms with a lower start price and increase in capacity for the money.
If that is the case, fair point for that iteration of the iPhone 12.
Oh, and the name is Vince, it’s right there in the sig.
Fair point, please accept my apologies.
To conclude, i have bought Apple products for years and in our household we have numerousApple devices between the 3 of us. But I'm getting tired of Apple's lack of genuine innovation, its woke hypocrisy and underhand methods, its blatant fleecing of its loyal customers, and its attempts to justify rampant profiteering and cost cutting on the grounds that it is environmentally friendly.