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This is totally fascinating! A friend in Manila just forwarded me a link to www.sulit.com in Manila. This website is apparently the Craigslist of the Philippines. H said look at the prices of iPhones! Sure enough, I looked and iPhone 2S prices, which he said have been hovering around 45,000 Pesos (about 1000 US at todays exchange rate) are about 15,000 Pesos, and there are a LOT of them listed at that!

Apparently, my friend says, the Filipinos are following the FBI story about forcing Apple to unlock their encryption, are afraid the FBI will prevail, and don't want a phone the FBI can tap.

This is so rich on so many fronts! How the FBI can cause prices of iPhones to tank, the fear of Filipinos that the FBI can read what they have on their phones (And maybe share with the Philippine police or or politicians,) the fact that Android is no more secure but Apple phones tank, international trade in that if you want a cheap latest model iPhone, you can buy one in Manila and get a free vacation to pick it up.... Oh the irony of Mr. Comey, FBI Director, going against free speech. Can you imagine him telling me I cannot speak to my Latina girlfrend in an language except English?

And we expect Director Comey to be fair in his application of the law in the Hillary server case. Oh, I mourn for my America, but I have to laugh at the unexpected consequences for not following the Constitution.

1 posted on 03/02/2016 4:41:28 PM PST by SandwicheGuy

To: SandwicheGuy; Swordmaker

Ping to the Apple list for fun and education. Airfares are such that you can get a new iPhone and a free trip to Manila to pick it up for the price of an iPhone in Honolulu. Amazing!

2 posted on 03/02/2016 4:44:40 PM PST by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)

To: SandwicheGuy

Could be terrorist who are afraid to buy them.

3 posted on 03/02/2016 4:45:00 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)

To: SandwicheGuy

A 2008 vintage iPhone is 1000 bucks?

4 posted on 03/02/2016 4:46:57 PM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)

To: SandwicheGuy; Swordmaker

This is totally fascinating! A friend in Manila just forwarded me a link to www.sulit.com in Manila. This website is apparently the Craigslist of the Philippines...

Wow. Fascinating indeed that "you looked". Especially since Sulit.com has not been active for more than a year. They merged last year with OLX.ph, which is the mainline online ad place here isn the Philippines, WHERE I LIVE. Craigslist is also here, but not used very much. Ayosdito and Sulit were both merged with OLX.

A quick search of the OLX site does not back up your premise. All I see are iPhone 5 and 6 with an occasional 4! I can buy an iPhone 6 for 15-25000PhP (iPhone 6Plus with 128g for 24500PhP)(current exchange rate of 47.115)

https://www.olx.ph/all-results/q-iPhone-2/

So, I believe your piece is nothing more than FUD!

8 posted on 03/02/2016 5:00:50 PM PST by WVKayaker (What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate -D.Trump)

To: SandwicheGuy

Justice Department ignoring the free speech clause in the Constitution and insisting Apple write code for them to unlock iPhones

What does the Apple iPhone case have to do with free speech?

It might have something to do with the right of the People to be secure in their persons, homes, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, except the search and seizure of the papers and effects of Muslim terrorists is eminently REASONABLE.

10 posted on 03/02/2016 5:05:05 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)

To: SandwicheGuy

Just ran my Iphone 4 through the washing machine last night. Anybody know if/how data on it can be recovered. Contacts, photos, videos etc?

16 posted on 03/02/2016 5:37:37 PM PST by Captain7seas

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