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essenbe said:

iResent that.

My wife has an iPhone and it is a vexation to the soul...............

I have never used an iPhone but I have bought 5 of them. My Granddaughter insists on one.

I really like my iPhone, I'd buy another. Have two iPads as well.

It's a strange thing, In the US the iPhone range of Apple devices are by far the major sector of the market, however world wide the iPhone struggles to reach 25% of the market, with 75% being held by Android and others (though the others are an insignificant number these days with the withdrawal of Windows and Blackberry from the market.

You also see that many of the announced iPhone "exclusive features" have been available to android users for several years - It was never this bad in the days of Steve Jobs, although the worldwide market split has been heavily in favour of non apple devices for many years ( mostly based on purchase cost, though this is not a truly valid reason as iPhone and Android phones are made in the same Chinese factories )

My Nokia Lumia 630DS with W10 still works fine, not planing to replace my car with any iPhone.

I will agree cost is crazy on iPhones. That is what holds me back from changing, mine is going on five years old.

All Apple prices are high, you are paying for name.

I just bought a used 8 Plus 256GB for a client and the lady that sold me the phone had an iPhone 11 Max Pro or something. She works for a phone store and still paid a horrendous price. CDN dollar isn't the strongest currency to begin with.

essenbe said:

I have never used an iPhone but I have bought 5 of them. My Granddaughter insists on one.

Over here it's a different system, where the phones themselves are supposedly free, and you just pay for a contract for 18 or 24 months, then get the phone replaced with the next contract.

There is of course a visible difference in the contact rate depending on the phone you go for with as in the US the iPhone having a premium based on name rather than abilities. Personally I am tied in to the google ecosystem, so have used Android from the start of the smartphone takeover, I have a number of tablet devices, and two phones all of which automatically synchronise with each other and my Chrome browser and google apps on the computers.

Phone wise I have been using the older model (one revision back) Samsung devices as they do all I want I am currently using a Galaxy S9+ whereas the latest is the S20 range, but I am due an upgrade in a couple of months when I will likely go to an S10 of some type - Let others iron out the bugs - I'll let the millennials iron out the bugs for me.

There is a new trend here to keep your existing phone and just get a new contract which as phones are starting to level of feature wise may be an option this time unless the offer me a really good deal

Around here a phone that comes with a subscription is either a very cheap model or at the end is more expensive than if bought outright.