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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
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david1951
To: JakeStraw who wrote (189992)4/27/2016 11:10:47 AM
From: Bill from Wisconsin1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 213182
 
OK, what if I'm a customer, shopping for a smartphone; what leads me to buy an iPhone over lets just say, a Galaxy?

For one, and this cuts both ways, that when I buy my iPhone, I'm not going to be forced to replace it (or feel the urgent need to replace it) 3 or more years down the road.

Android and windows phones seem almost disposable. You buy it. You use it for a year or two. And then you pretty much throw it away.

I bought a 4s when it came out. That went to my wife when I got a 5s. It went to my daughter when my wife bought a 5s. That 4s isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

So yes, it cuts both ways- buying less NEW phones. But it makes me more comfortable paying $700 for a phone. I'd never pay that for an android.

Apple justifies the premium price in my mind and in a lot of people's minds that way.

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