When you buy these days you have to take into account what mafia you’re giving your money to and if they’re using your money to kill you.
If you overlook apple’s slave labor production, unethical overpricing, their hand in the global communist conspiracy, participation in censoring and their handcuffing you to their cloud or tunes app for file transfer, it is a better tool. Just remember, paying $0.99 a month for more than 5GB of icloud storage is still funding the beast.
Buy used from an American seller. Like Gollum said, “Don’t take it to him!”
What “American seller” do you recommend?