I had a iPhone 12 Pro Max and im getting a normal Pro this year. The Max is just a bit too big when you are juggling a 7 month old.
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I could get £225 for my iPhone XS from a well-known recycling company. I could have got more if I'd traded in a couple or three weeks ago. That works out at £2600 over ten years if you upgrade every three years. Rough figures of course. And nobody could really argue that the XS is anything other than a great phone still.
Battery life looks amazing for video streaming.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/17/iphone-13-battery-excels-video-streaming/
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/17/iphone-13-battery-excels-video-streaming/
- iPhone 12 mini: 10 hours
- iPhone 12: 11 hours
- iPhone 12 Pro: 11 hours
- iPhone 12 Pro Max: 12 hours
- iPhone 13 Mini: 13 hours
- iPhone 13: 19 hours
- iPhone 13 Pro: 20 hours
- iPhone 13 Pro Max: 25 hours
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I wasn't disagreeing with you, only that the financial difference isn't all that big between upgrading every year and every two years.
Of course, if you upgrade every three years, the gap widens. And if you do every four years, it widens even more. If you don't upgrade at all in 10 years, it's even cheaper. All of that goes without saying. Although once you take it above 18-24 months, you need to factor in the cost of battery replacements, out-of-warranty repairs, etc.
You said that upgrading every year "isn't as expensive as it seems" and used a single example to support your point. When you take into account the wider picture - e.g. a three-year upgrade cycle - then the savings become £3000 over ten years. You might class that as not being very expensive, but it's a not-insignificant sum of money.
It's just a very expensive insurance product, you literally have to pay the insurance premium tax on it too! Just get it elsewhere.
Apple are selling the 'walk into store, walk out with replacement phone' convenience, which to many is worth the premium. It is definitely overpriced, though.
Well it's £189 for two years coverage (unless I'm reading it wrong and that's per year) which equates to just under 8 quid a month which seems competitive with third-party insurance.
I just obtained a check quote from protectyourbubble and they were £8.99 per month for a 13 Pro. It does however include theft, but not loss. Of course there's the hassle of sending the phone off and possibly ending up with a delayed or poor-quality repair, so maybe AppleCare isn't as terrible as I first thought.
Exactly - it feels competitive price-wise and the convenience of being able to deal directly with Apple via their stores is very attractive.
Not sure what you're on about, I gave an example between 1-year and 2-year cycles. That's because most contracts are 2 years and that's how most people buy phones these days. Those who let their phone contracts run over after 2 years almost always pay way over the top rates to networks anyway, so they're not the ones saving money.
There is a difference between 1-year and 2-year cycles, there is also a difference between 2-year and 3-year cycles, so obvious that there will be a bigger difference between 1-year and 3-year cycles than either of those two. Crazy that math somehow works!
Once you shop around and all providers update their rates for new phones (rather than 1-2 immediately after launch), you can get £6pm for basic insurance and £8pm for insurance that includes loss and theft as well. If you're doing multiple phones for the family you can get that cost down significantly too, like in packaged bank accounts or insurance deals (e.g. Nationwide gives you breakdown cover, worldwide travel insurance plus phone insurance with damage/loss/theft protection - up to £1500 - for the whole family for £13 per month).
