No, you aren’t spending more money on your iPhone.
With Apple’s recent price increases on the iPhones, many fear that they are being forced to spend more on their phone, year after year. However, this might not be true.
While once iPhones were $99 on contract, or $649 outright, they’ve now increased to a whopping $999 for the base model iPhone X. However, you might not be spending much extra at all, after Apple’s recent change in software philosophy. iPhones have always been praised for their longevity on software updates, with the iPhone 4s being given five major OS upgrades, a feat accomplished by few, if any, Android devices. However, with each software iteration, the iPhone 4s became more and more sedatary, lagging and freezing while completing even basic tasks. That has changed. Today, even the iPhone SE, which released at $399 and can be found for as low as $99, can run iOS at a buttery smooth pace with some extra processing power to spare. It can even run some pretty graphics intensive games, despite being almost 3 years old. Compare to the iPhones of yesteryear at 3 years old, and you’ll see we’re getting a pretty sweet deal.
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