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| From | -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? |
| Date | 2025-08-12 13:49 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <107furl$38to6$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 8/12/25 09:43, badgolferman wrote:
> On 08/12/2025 09:18, -hh wrote:
>> On 8/11/25 16:38, badgolferman wrote:
>>> Marion wrote:
>>>> ...
>>> What if you switched carriers and they gave you an iPhone for "free"?
>>> Would that change the ownership cost?
>>
>> Good catch. His logical fallacy here is that he's trying to believe
>> that the "free" had zero strings attached, instead of its true costs
>> being hidden/obfuscated.
>>
>> Of course companies know this, which is why they do the 'free' bit, for
>> the simple reason that some consumers are fooled by it, such as here.
>>
>>
>>> Personally I don't purchase AppleCare or all those peripherals. I do
>>> pay for 50GB back up services at $0.99/mo. and share that with my
>>> wife's account.
>>
>> Same; the $1/mo is a slippery slope for upsell opportunities, but for
>> those who can appropriately understand that and value, paying $12/year
>> isn't any sort of meaningful risk.
>>
>>
>>> When I bought my iPhone 14 from T-mobile they "paid" for it with
>>> monthly discounts on my bill. When I found out I needed a special
>>> charger at an additional price I pushed the phone back at them and got
>>> up to leave. That's when they put a new charger on the phone and
>>> pushed it back toward me.
>>
>> Interesting ... what was this supposedly "special" charger?
>
> It was the Apple branded 20W fast charger. They told me the phone is
> designed for a different charger and won't get it's full potential
> without the new charger.
Sounds like what you're saying that a T-Mobile salesman deceived you.
In any event, there's been different wattage output chargers for awhile,
and 'fast' chargers really only make a difference if one isn't charging
overnight.
To be honest, I barely pay attention to the different power levels ...
size when packing is usually more important to me. The exception are
chargers which I have paired with wireless charging pads, but as I say,
"paired": the ones at home are never swapped around and the new one
that I have for use on the road has its own dedicated setup, including
its own carry bag that it gets stowed in.
>> I'm wondering if it was your first new phone since Apple discontinued
>> including a charger+cable in the box (which was the iPhone 12), as the
>> 14 still used Lightning, so it wasn't the Lightning-USB-C transition.
>
> I think they discontinued providing the charger and cable before the
> iPhone 12, but maybe I'm wrong. But yes, I went from the 12 to the 14.
> I started out with the 4 and have had almost every type in between.
> Some have been corporate phones and some personal phones. Currently I
> have two 14 models.
When that news came out, I was a bit perturbed about it, but in
retrospect, it was because I didn't have a plethora of spare chargers
and cables yet. Similarly, I've stopped worrying about paying $10 for a
cable, especially since I've stopped buying the lousy Apple OEM ones
which have a poor stress relief design...I can now pretty easily get a
year out of one cable before it starts to fail.
>> FYI, the good news is that chargers/cables have become cheap enough
>> again to provision a few spares. Amazon currently has on sale an Anker
>> charger ("Anker USB C Charger Block, 33W 2 Port Compact Charger"): $15
>> for black, or $19 for white. Its a dual output port ... USB-A and -C.
>>
>> Similarly, for post-Lightning cables, one can currently get a two-pack
>> of 1m USB-C/-C cables for $9, or a pair of 2m lengths for $13. Again,
>> both are Anker, which I've found to be modestly better than Apple.
>
> Yes, of course one charger is not enough so I've had to buy more. That
> includes car chargers. My wife has a 15 model so I had to buy chargers
> and cables for her.
FWIW, what I'm starting to do now is to stage my transition for future
iOS devices being on USB-C instead of Lightning. It started when I
stumbled across a USB-C cable which included ~1" long adapter plugs that
allow for the same cable to be -Lightning and to -microUSB. Since then,
I've found that these little adapters can be purchased separately too:
look for ones which include tiny little lanyards that allow them to be
attached to the cable so as to not get lost.
-hh
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Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-11 19:48 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2025-08-11 20:38 +0000
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-14 19:36 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 12:49 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-15 08:59 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-14 16:07 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 13:16 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-14 20:43 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 14:07 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-15 11:19 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2025-08-15 14:55 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-15 12:01 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-15 16:38 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-15 13:48 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-15 16:37 -0400
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-16 13:37 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-16 22:37 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-16 15:50 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-18 08:06 -0400
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-19 11:00 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-18 15:43 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-18 15:45 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2025-08-18 13:26 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-19 10:54 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-18 21:58 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-18 20:04 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2025-08-18 09:52 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-16 15:38 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-18 08:27 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-15 10:16 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-08-15 08:44 +1200
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 14:07 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-14 18:12 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 17:06 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-15 14:47 +0000
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-14 17:40 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-14 10:44 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-15 10:13 -0700
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Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-16 03:12 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-16 09:36 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-16 15:37 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-17 01:16 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-12 09:18 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> - 2025-08-12 09:43 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-12 07:02 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-12 13:49 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-12 11:07 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-12 15:50 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-12 14:37 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-12 19:17 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-12 19:17 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-08-13 07:36 -0700
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-18 07:25 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-08-18 08:23 -0400
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-18 15:42 +0000
Re: Thought Question: How many times do Apple owners buy each iPhone? sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2025-08-18 10:04 -0700
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