See here is your problem. I didn't ask for proof if iPhones retained their value I don't buy phones as an investment I buy them to use as a tool.
What I want to know is WHY PAY PREMIUM for any phone when a cheaper phone does the same exact thing whether it be a used Android OR a phone like mine?
Your problem is there is no logical answer. You just proved I can buy a used android for 90 bucks that does all the things smart phones do, yet somehow in your mind trading-in/selling an iPhone for a couple hundred bucks then buying a new one for 600 bucks-plus somehow saves you money. It doesn't. But the folks at Apple smile and nod and they want you to know how smart they think you are for helping them make billions in profits...
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You failed to read. . . again. You are looking to buy a PHONE. Apple iPhones are miniature computers that happen to have a phone included with them. . . that also connect to other computers in an ecosystem that connects the user with all of their data. IT IS NOT JUST a stupid phone. . . which is what you fail to understand at all.
It is also one of the highest rated CAMERAS on the market, and one of the highest VIDEO CAMERAS on the market . . . but the Android phone you are referring to is mediocre at best in any of those categories.
You want a used transportation car to go from your house to work and are willing to buy a dented up clunker for that purpose. Others are not. Enough said on that.
See here is your problem. I didn't ask for proof if iPhones retained their value I don't buy phones as an investment I buy them to use as a tool.
Yes, idiot, you did, you idiot.
My comment was in Reply 91 was"Your basic premise is wrong. I've gone over this before. You keep ignoring the economics of the use of my iPhone. It doesn't cost me any more to have the best iPhone because the iPhone's RESALE value at the end of two years is MORE than I pay to initiate the contract for a new one by a considerable amount. . . so I can sell my old one, initiate a new contract, and POCKET the difference. Not so with any of the top of the line Android phones."
To which you challenged me to— and I quote from your reply #106 verbatim—
Post your numbers...
Real numbers for both igadgets and Androids. Trade in value etc.
So that makes you a liar, as well as an idiot, trying to change what you asked for.
We don't buy them as "investments" either, but also as excellent tools. And GOOD tools retain their value, not like junk tools that you throw away and have to buy new ones after you use them up. Quality tools last a long time and can be sold for good prices. You do not understand Total Cost of Ownership. . . but that is a concept that is obviously beyond your educational level and pay grade.
You are truly delusional.