Posted on 09/21/2017 2:14:55 PM PDT by dennisw
He was wrong when he said that his penchant for buggery was a gift from God and he is wrong about the price of the new iPhone.
What does it do that, say, an iPhone 6 doesn’t? Just curious
You’ve got that right.
Losing track of subthreads. Too closely resembled someone else’s remarks. Sorry.
Apology accepted.
Thank you.
I hardly ever use my iPhone for making calls. It does so many other things I sometimes forget it can make phone calls. But who makes phone calls these days? Everything is text, email and web interface.
well, keep your existing phone then
since the new one really doesn’t DO much more
... and if it ever breaks, then deal with getting a new one at that time
i have an older one too and it works so nicely (previous apple did not) that i have no incentive to rush out and buy another one
“We are definitely in another economic bubble. It won’t be pretty when it pops.”
Ever hear of “inflation”?
And people wonder why bitcoin is gaining traction...
LOLOur objectives aren't big revenues
Apple has made no secret of the fact that it wants to have a high net - but it does so not so much with a high gross revenue as by a high profit margin.Most smart phones sold aren’t iPhones - but Apple has the highest profit from smartphones because its profit margin is high. Apple isn’t interested in "losing money on every sale, and trying to make it up in volume.”
In order to have a high profit margin you have to provide a high perceived - by the customer - value. "Providing a high value to" the customer can be legitimately described as “helping" the customer.
Those are the two features I use the least.
Same here. I can’t remember the last time I made a call on my iPhone 6. Many many months ago, I am sure. 😀
Transmit calls & receive calls.
A phone must also Emot when you are the gay proud ceo.
There are no "brand new" iPhone 5 models for sale anymore. The lowest price iPhone is the iPhone SE at $349. You can buy three of those instead of one iPhone X. It's three generations old.
I don’t know, but I have access to a lot. I mostly use the free KJV and ESV Bible apps. I also use Bible Gateway, which has 30-40 versions, including various audio Bibles that I like to use in the car.
I recently bought a Logos software package (Reformed Gold edition), so I think I am supposed to have access on my phone, but am still learning to use Logos. I don’t even know what all I’ve got access to yet.
I use the Sermonaudio app everyday. It’s my most used Christian app. It’s amazing how much you can learn with these little handheld computers.
No. Look at Amazon. You can buy all sorts of brand-new iPhone 6’s for well under $300.
I suppose you could convince yourself that a brand new thousand dollar iPhone is well worth the cost over a new $300 iPhone 6. But you are in a very small minority.
That was the hourly pay on regular assembly lines in 2010. Apple lines were two to three times more than that then. . . and they are much more than that now. It was the reason why when ever jobs were opened on assembly lines working on Apple products workers by the thousands would queue for those jobs. Apple specified those higher wages in their contracts. . . as well as working conditions. You also need to understand that the Chinese minimum wage for factory workers at that time was 78¢ an hour. . . and was considered a good wage. Standards and costs of living in different parts of the world are NOT the same or the equivalent as they are in the US. . . and a small pay may be the equivalent due to costs being far lower.
Not necessarily true. My wife and I bought new iPhone 5s models at Target last year, operates via TracFone service. I see that they are still advertised for sale at Target Stores now, for $199. I believe you may be able to get an iPhone 6 on TracFone service for $288 at Target online. TracFone is no contract, and the service cards for minutes is cheap. Costs me about $9/month when I buy a 1-yr card. I have about 6,000 minutes saved for data/text/calls from carrying over minutes from previous TracFones over the years.
Sigh.
The workers at FoxConn's Apple Assembly lines are limited by Apple's contracts with FoxConn to just 12 hours per day and 60 hours per week, including overtime. They are not slave laborers. Every single one of them applied for the job they are doing and was selected from thousands of applicants.
Apple is only one of more than 550 Consumer Electronic brand names that have their products assembled at a FoxConn as contract manufacturer. In fact, shanover, not a single Apple assembly line worker was involved in that spate of 18 suicides in 18 months among Foxconn's 750,000 workers in 2010-2011 that gave rise to the MYTH of a suicide problem at FoxConn.
In actual fact those workers were from assembly lines making HP Computers, Sony Play Stations, Nokia phones, and Microsoft Xboxes. . . and the suicide rate worked out to less than 1 per 100,000 per year. Compare that to the 11 per 100,000 per year among people in the same age cohorts attending Ivy League Universities in the United States. . . or the 10 per 100,000 per year in the same age cohort among the Chinese population in general!
In other words, a Chinese young person was TEN TIMES LESS LIKELY to commit suicide if he or she were working at FoxConn than if not. It was a bogus crisis ginned up by Apple's competitors to spread FUD just as you are spreading now.
Outside organizations brought in by FoxConn found that the suicides that did occur were not at all related to working conditions but were all caused by the prosaic reasons people commit suicide. . . psychological reasons such as love triangles, homesickness, financial reasons, mental illness, being bullied, etc.
With all that stuff it does, how long does a charge last?
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