Reply to: apple upgrade plan

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

It's a fair point about resale value. My wife will be getting my iPhone 6 which means I can either keep her old iPhone 5 as a testing device or sell it - I can currently get £90 for it (although I need to account for VAT on that (still £76 though).

[d000hg]

Paying £500 per year for a phone without a contract is a lot. Typically phones are tied to a two year contract. Great, you're getting a brand new one each of the two years, but you're essentially lumbering yourself with a £1000 hardware bill and no call time/data rather than picking up a decent phone for £300 and a simfree deal for £20/month.

Interestingly (well not really) O2 have a similar model already where they separate the contract from the phone cost. You pay for both separately and can refresh your phone at any point.

I just think that iPhones hold their value so well that if you bought one each year and sold it a year later, you'd be paying WAY less than £500.

[MrMarkyMark]

He's banned now, but I thought I'd respond anyway...the model I had in mind was £699. I don't generally invest company money and my business saver pays a paltry amount of interest, it would likely make less interest than it would *cost* me in petrol to drive to the nearest Apple Store (40 miles away) to sign up for an upgrade plan.

Not having to visit Lakeside (you can't sign up for the upgrade plan online) is enough motivation for me not to bother.

Yes indeed, as we get older and hopefully a little wiser, costs become a hell of s lot more than just about money

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Of course you lose the opportunity cost of making money with your money, in your pocket. However that is also a risk of the money, investments can go down, as well as up.

He's banned now, but I thought I'd respond anyway...the model I had in mind was £699. I don't generally invest company money and my business saver pays a paltry amount of interest, it would likely make less interest than it would *cost* me in petrol to drive to the nearest Apple Store (40 miles away) to sign up for an upgrade plan.

Not having to visit Lakeside (you can't sign up for the upgrade plan online) is enough motivation for me not to bother.

[ChimpMaster]

You contractors get it easy and might be rich but you'll be so far behind me in few years.

In what way? Financially, culturally, socially?

He will be a billionaire soon: he is investing in property.

[ChimpMaster]

Some people get very emotional when Apple are involved

You're not wrong there.

Now if Android phone manufacturers came up with a 'migration' offer to get all of those uneducated iPhone users onto the better tech Android phones - that would be a market-changing move.

[missinggreenfields]

Some people get very emotional when Apple are involved

Shut it, you slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!

[MrMarkyMark]

Wow that was quite a leap of faith going from page 1 straight to page 5, but well worth the Eastenders style drama twist.

Some people get very emotional when Apple are involved

[Old Greg]

Wow that was quite a leap of faith going from page 1 straight to page 5, but well worth the Eastenders style drama twist.

[ChimpMaster]

Wow that was quite a leap of faith going from page 1 straight to page 5, but well worth the Eastenders style drama twist.

[Old Greg]

You should be a mod...

Do you get the ability to ban yourself? If so, I'm in.

[MrMarkyMark]

Doesn't matter, you get only hate on this forum and i'm done with it. Cya

[sasguru]

That was easy.

No sport in it at all.

[WTFH]

That was easy.

You should be a mod...

[Old Greg]

Doesn't matter, you get only hate on this forum and i'm done with it. Cya

That was easy.