Apparently a $1000 iPhone was announced today

Sorry, I think that's supposed to be $1,000.

More pablum for the masses to distract them from how badly they're being fucked over.



The Roman Empire had "bread and circuses".

Contemporary America has the iPhone!

Some Several Many many dumbasses will buy one at that price.

I can't drive that!

$1000 for a phone? Getthefuckouttahere!

Yeah...no. Not interested at all.

I have two iPhone 6 devices (one for work and one is mine) and they work just fine. Because of the account package my boss has set up, we practically get the phones themselves for free (I think we pay something like $0.29 each or some other ridiculously low amount). By the time this new iPhone comes out, my boss will probably be getting us iPhone 8s at an equally low price.

Ten Cars You Can Buy For The Price Of A New iPhone X

I think mine is a 5c or somesuch. Works fine, though I can't stream my lectures on it for some reason.

Uh uh. I don't even do iPhone. I think it's ridiculous.

I use a $50 Boost Mobile phone I got at Best Buy and spend about $50 each month. It fucking does exactly what I want it to do.

A thousand bucks! That's ludicrous. They can go f*** themselves!

I use an unlocked Android phone that I paid about $120 or so for. Does everything I need, and my phone bill is $35 with unlimited talk and text,and a 2gb? data plan. I never go over it, mainly because there's always WiFi available somewhere if I need it.

And the latest update to iTunes is the icing on the cake. At one time, you could plug your device into your PC and use iTunes to load music on it, documents, apps, and handiest of all, rearrange the apps on your screens. A couple of years ago, Apple decided that they'd make it harder to load music on your device, to "encourage" you to use their cloud service (which, of course, you had to pay for). Annoying, because WTF wants to have to upload their music to the load, just so you can stream it to your device? Also makes your iPod Touch kind of useless when you don't have a WiFi signal and you want to listen to music. Now, they've dropped the ability to manage many of the features of your device from iTunes.

And that "manage" music, again, is designed to "encourage" you to use their cloud "service."

Out of all the features iOS offered, the one that I liked the best was the ability to manage your device via the PC. Now, that's gone. Not going to be buying any more Apple products after this, I don't think.

It's a good thing that I resynced my iPod Touch before installing the latest iTunes update.
Now Ima hafta figure out alternatives to iTunes. Recommendations?

AnyTrans works the way iTunes used to work when it comes to syncing your devices. You know, like simple drag and drop, to copy over your music. BeaTunes lets you manage your music on your PC in ways that iTunes doesn't. Both are fairly inexpensive and have free-trial periods.

I want the 1952 Hudson Super Jet.

One artist's comment.

That's fucking awesome!

I have a $50 LG L33L. It has Android 5.0, does far, far more than I need it to do. It has bluetooth, a headphone jack, Skype, dozens of apps like Netflix, Hulu, Plex, and others, 32 GB of storage because I dropped an SD card in it, and records HD video. It even has two cameras if I want to take a selfie (I don't). It can last a full day without needing recharged, longer if I switch off Wi-fi and bluetooth. Why on god's green earth would I want to pay $1,000 for a phone that doesn't appreciably improve on that?

Because it does. By a country mile.

You like your phone and that's good. Buy whatever works for you.

But saying the iPhone X doesn't blow your phone out of the water would be just as stupid as saying the LG V30 doesn't appreciably improve on your phone. It also blows your phone out of the water. The LG V30 is one of the iPhone X main competitors. Your phone is not. Oh and the LG V30 is about $800 to $900 dollars depending on where you get it.

These phones are reaching a point where they are not phones anymore. They are computers. Full blown computers.

Buy whatever you want of course, but don't make a stupid argument that the iPhone X, the LG V30, or any other top of the line phone doesn't appreciably improve on your phone. They do. Without mercy.

Actually, that was true of the first iPhone. It had the power of a laptop built in '01 Apple just chose to not make it as capable as a laptop of that era. Current phones (iPhone or Android) are certainly capable of being as powerful as a recent vintage PC, but for whatever reason, nobody wants to put the necessary software on them so that they are indistinguishable from a PC. MS was working their way there with Windows Phone, but they hadn't been willing to make the full jump, and now the OS is dead, so there's not really any point.

What does the iPhone X do that my LG doesn't do? Play HD video? My phone does that. Play games? My phone does that. Edit video and audio? My phone does that. Access the internet? My phone does that. Play music? My phone does that. Utilize wi-fi and bluetooth? My phone does that. Makes calls? My phone does that. Take images and splice them together in a panorama? My phone does that. In practical terms, what makes up the $950 difference between my phone and the iPhone X?

"Because it does" isn't an answer. You don't work with technology as long as I have without developing a sense for bullshit promotion, and as much as I like Apple, no one does it better than they do.

Whatever.

In practical terms, what makes up the $950 difference between my phone and the iPhone X? If you don't have an answer, say so. If your answer is "it makes me feel like like a big man," say it. If it's "I want to rub in my surplus income around others," say it. If you do have an answer, however, then please offer it. In practical terms, what makes the iPhone X worth the $1,000 price tag?

Again.....

Whatever.

So nothing. You have nothing.

You think your $50 phone can equal the iPhone X, LG V30, or a Samsung Galaxy S8.

You're ignorant. There is no point talking to you in detail.

It's a waste of time.

So.....

Whatever.

No, I didn't say it could equal it, I want to know what makes the iPhone X's $1,000 reasonable compared to the $50 LG phone I own. Nowhere did I use the terms "equal," "LG V30," or "Samsung Galaxy S8." Let me repeat it, since you've clearly filled in lines where none exist:

In practical terms, what makes up the $950 difference between my phone and the iPhone X?

Whatever.

LG L33L (Sunset)

Basics:
Camera Resolution: 5 MP
Processor: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 1.2 GHz Quad-Core MSM8916
Memory Storage: 8 GB - expandable via microSD™ card (Up to 32 GB)
Display: 16.7M Color TFT, 854 x 480 pixels, 4.5" (FWVGA)
Dimensions 5.11" (H) x 2.55" (W) x 0.43" (D)
Weight: 4.83 oz.
Battery Capacity: 1,900 mAh
Talk Time: up to 10 hours
Standby Time: Up to 10 days and 12 hours
Bluetooth 4.1 - (Headset, hands-free, object push, advanced audio distribution (stereo), audio/video remote control, file transfer, human interface device, and phone book access)
Data Transmission: 4G LTE, HSPA+, EDGE
Input: Multi-touch
Navigation: A-GPS, GPS

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Knock Code™ - (Create a 3 to 8 point tapping pattern for security and direct access to the home screen with more than 86,000 possible combinations)
QuickMemo®+ - (Write or draw on nearly any screen and schedule memos to appear at certain locations or times using calendar inputs)
Mobile Web and Email Access
Multi-language Support
Support for Phone and Keyboard Input
Text-to-Speech Capability
Voice Memo Recording and Speaker Independent Voice Commands
Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC): M3/T3 rating

Camera Modes:
Rear-Facing Camera 5 MP (Rear-Facing Autofocus Camera with Flash and Full HD Camcorder)
Front-Facing Camera ( VGA front-facing camera and camcorder)
Gesture Shot (Take selfies with a simple hand gesture.)
Camera Resolutions: Up to 2560 x 1920 pixels (2560 x 1440 default)
Cheese Shutter™ (Use your voice to take a picture.)
Burst Shot ( Hold the shutter button to take multiple shots quickly.)
Self-Timer
Camera and Video Zoom (Up to 4x)
Video Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (1080p)
Live Shot (Take still shots while recording video.)
Geotagging (Store location information with photos and videos)
Image Editor (Crop, rotate, add effects and frames, and more)
Panorama Editor available (Third Party)

Multimedia:
FM Radio
Music Player (Support for MP3, M4A, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, Ogg, FLAC, WAV, MIDI, PCM, and EVRC Formats)
Music Library (Organized by song, album, artist, genre, playlist, folder, or favorites)
Video Player (With Touch Lock, Customizable Screen Ratio, and Resume Play Function; supports MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 formats)

Software:
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Also, it comes with a standard headphone jack! Neat! That said, I just use my bluetooth headphones when I want to listen to music.

$50.

How does the Apple iPhone X bridge that $950 gap? What makes it worth 950 more dollars?

Because people will pay that much.