Are you planning to upgrade to the iPhone 16

[harshness]

I guess it's what the market demands.

It is surely more an issue of what the faithful are willing to shell out. Apple probably spends more time in focus groups trying to figure out how much people are willing to pay than other concerns like form and function.

 

[harshness]

The only new phone that has my interest is the Tesla pi phone which is rumored to start at $357. But app compatibility and monthly service cost will determine whether I get one.

Any money left on the table by the cheap phone (the razor handle) will surely be extracted in network fees (the razor blades).

 

[comfortably_numb]

Apple probably spends more time in focus groups trying to figure out how much people are willing to pay than other concerns like form and function.

And that's a damn shame, because they used to care more about innovation.

 

[harshness]

And that's a damn shame, because they used to care more about innovation.

Innovation is getting pretty difficult at this point in addition to being rather expensive. That's where you lose by going with a platform that has only one participant.

 

[ZetaMale]

Innovation is getting pretty difficult at this point in addition to being rather expensive. That's where you lose by going with a platform that has only one participant.

We need another alien spacecraft to crash at Roswell.