Android Samsung Galaxy S3
Smartphone And that is just one of about 100 I found on Amazon. Unlocked I can get for around 169. This one is AT&T (which is what we use because they have the best signal strength in the area,) But the have S3s for most of the other carriers in the same price range.
So again you are wrong I am right.
Thanks for playing sparky.
LOL! Thanks for proving my point once again. That's a USED three year old Android piece of junk. . . which is being sold at retail for $169. That means they bought it wholesale for half that from the user: $85.00
Here is what they are selling three year old iPhones for on Amazon, idiot.
How about FOUR YEAR OLD iPhones?
Again, using the standard used merchandise markup, they bought them from the user for half of what they are selling them for. . . that means they are paid the user about $200-225 them, more than twice what your Android was purchased from the user for! This was enough to START A NEW CONTRACT! Rinse Repeat. Even a FOUR YEAR OLD iPhone brings more wholesale than your Android JUNK does. . . However, a user can sell his iPhone retail for more—such as the prices above, instead of selling his iPhone wholesale on trade in, and pay a good percentage of the retail price of a new iPhone. Even a four year old iPhone sold retail will pay for the downpayment on a new iPhone 6!
And you think my comment about Apple NOT designing for obsolescence was funny. . . yet all of these older phones are still in demand, commanding high prices. They are not obsolete. They will work with the Apple ecosystem. That is one of the reasons that Apple is now the only $700 Billion dollars company in the world. You cannot understand that at all because you are an idiot at understanding the LAW of demand and supply. . . and how a business can keep its customers satisfied so they keep coming back for more of the same.
You really do not understand economics at all. Nor do you understand one whit of Total Cost of Ownership. Look back at the chart I posted above that showed that owning a new iPhone was less expensive in the long run that owning Blackberries or Androids. You are pennywise and Pound foolish. Actually, you are just a fool.
As I said before, and will continue to repeat, you know the PRICE/COST of everything and the VALUE of nothing.
You keep talking about "your phone". I found a photo of you using your phone:
For you, everything devolves to the bottom line. . . face it, you, like all Android users are cheapskates.
Heaven help you if anyone ever told you about the future value of money. You'd starve to death.