£729 you are ******* joking

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slick1two

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by Stiggles:
“Riiiiiiight......so....

£430 for an S3 and a 64gb card which then totals 80gb

A 64gb iphone 5 is £729.

That's a difference of £299 for less space. So, several hundred pounds.”

Yet people still will find a way to defend Apple. They are just running out of USPs. Oh wait that happened a while ago.

Anika Hanson

13-09-2012

Well apparently the iPhone 5 is now the best smartphone on the market.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/...amazing/:yawn:

Re-Minder

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by swordman:
“Seriously now even the most hardened apple fan has to think this is a **** take.”

Yes pretty sure it will, my iPhone is first gen, cracked screen and battered to hell and it still works fine and i have no intention of upgrading until it dies screaming in its own battery acid.

IvanIV

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by Re-Minder:
“Yes pretty sure it will, my iPhone is first gen, cracked screen and battered to hell and it still works fine and i have no intention of upgrading until it dies screaming in its own battery acid.”

You got a faulty one, it was supposed to break down years ago

neo_wales

13-09-2012

When the iphone 4 launched DS went balistic, thousands of posts within a few hours, when the 4s was launched things were more muted, the 5 is here and I'd expected a LOT more talk on DS about it. Perhaps the bubble has burst for apple?

I've only had a quick look but it seems apple are now playing catchup with the S3.

IvanIV

13-09-2012

Nothing is magical anymore. Jobs had style, he could turn water into wine

Now we get a guy with a shirt hanging over his jeans.

AxeVictim

13-09-2012

The 64gb is still £699 its only the 16gb thats went up in price for some reason.The 32gb is still £599.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...iphone/compare

psionic

13-09-2012

LOL. Apple is expensive shocker.

davethorp

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by AxeVictim:
“The 64gb is still £699 its only the 16gb thats went up in price for some reason.The 32gb is still £599.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...iphone/compare”

Never let a little thing like accuracy get in the way of a good apple bashing thread

flagpole

13-09-2012

People are aware that they don't have to buy one?

Dean Dare

13-09-2012

Think I'll stick with my 3GS, still works fine, but if I did change then I think it's bye bye apple for my part

Sniffle774

13-09-2012

Apple arent stupid. They charge what they do knowing they will sell shed loads. If people are prepared to pay that price then thats upto them. I wont, so I dont care what price the new iPhone is. If people arent happy with the price...dont buy

No one HAS to have a new iPhone.

MojoMaster

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by WelshBluebird:
“But you are purposely choosing the most expensive model!

Thats like looking at the cost of cars from say Ford, totally ignoring the cheaper cars, and then going "OMG look at the price of that - just for a car!". If the cheapest iPhone was that I would agree with you. But its not.

You may realise the iPhone isn't the only phone where you cannot expand the storage. At least you have the option of buying a higher capacity device. You don't have that with say the HTC One X.”

Which is why Apple are not trying to get HTC phones banned in the US.

Samsung have just peed all over them, and they know it.

MojoMaster

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by Sniffle774:
“Apple arent stupid. They charge what they do knowing they will sell shed loads. If people are prepared to pay that price then thats upto them. I wont, so I dont care what price the new iPhone is. If people arent happy with the price...dont buy No one HAS to have a new iPhone.”

That's nice for now, but resentment sets in at some point. Apple are not immune to customer disatisfaction forever.

BrianWescombe

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by swordman:
“Seriously now even the most hardened apple fan has to think this is a **** take.”

16GB Galaxy S3 is cheaper, and can take a 40 quid 64GB micro SD card (the iPhone has no memory expansion slot!)

MojoMaster

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by flagpole:
“People are aware that they don't have to buy one?”

I don't think a lot of Apple customers are, to be honest.

I can quite conceivably see many of them either still blindly buying inferior hardware, or floundering in desperation at what to do next.

welwynrose

13-09-2012

Do people really need that much memory - I've got a iphone 3Gs that I've had since launch and it's still got 6gb of space on it

davethorp

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by welwynrose:
“Do people really need that much memory - I've got a iphone 3Gs that I've had since launch and it's still got 6gb of space on it”

I'm finding I need 32GB now and that's the capacity of iPhone 4S I have and likely the capacity of iPhone 5 I will buy.

I have a 64GB iPad 2 and find I'm only using about half the space so 64GB does seem to be overkill

welwynrose

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by davethorp:
“I'm finding I need 32GB now and that's the capacity of iPhone 4S I have and likely the capacity of iPhone 5 I will buy.

I have a 64GB iPad 2 and find I'm only using about half the space so 64GB does seem to be overkill”

That's why I went for a 32GB ipad - seems to be more that enough for me

CoolboyA

13-09-2012

The thing is, a HTC One X comes with 32GB of storage [+ 50GB Dropbox free] and costs as little as £349 new [SimplyElectronics]. Apple are charging £180 more for 16GB less storage...

Also, for only £509, you could buy a SIM-free 32GB Samsung Galaxy S3 + 64GB MicroSD [and it comes with 25GB of Dropbox storage]

nafanny29

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by IvanIV:
“Nothing is magical anymore. Jobs had style, he could turn water into wine Now we get a guy with a shirt hanging over his jeans.”

I think that I think is very true.

He was unique and knew what his customers wanted more than the rest of Apple put together.

Without him Apple may well eventually turn into just another tech company.

Anika Hanson

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by welwynrose:
“That's why I went for a 32GB ipad - seems to be more that enough for me”

Well I need a lot of memory. Started with a 16GB iphone 3 but found myself in need of more memory. Got a 32GB iphone 4 but also filled that up. Now have a 16GB galaxy note with 32gb SD card installed. So around 48gb of memory. Have about 4 GB free. So I'm ok on memory now but may get a 64gb card at some point. It depends on what you put on there, I have a lot of music, videos and audiobooks on my phone.

MojoMaster

13-09-2012

I have a lot of adult videos on my phone so need the storage space.

welwynrose

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by Anika Hanson:
“Well I need a lot of memory. Started with a 16GB iphone 3 but found myself in need of more memory. Got a 32GB iphone 4 but also filled that up. Now have a 16GB galaxy note with 32gb SD card installed. So around 48gb of memory. Have about 4 GB free. So I'm ok on memory now but may get a 64gb card at some point. It depends on what you put on there, I have a lot of music, videos and audiobooks on my phone.”

See this is where I differ - videos & books go on my ipad, audio goes on my 160GB ipod

Dai13371

13-09-2012

Originally Posted by MojoMaster:
“I have a lot of adult videos on my phone so need the storage space.”

Can you recommend me an anti screen shake app.

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