• adarza
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    2 days ago

    trying to sell the higher ‘resale’ or ‘trade in’ value of the phone… like a five-year-old 64gb se has a trade in ‘value’ at bby that’s 10x higher than that of a lower-mid android of the same age and storage. that’s 40-50usd vs 3-5usd (the phone that can’t even ‘pay for lunch’). but forgetting completely that you pay several hundred more for the handset to get that ‘extra’ 40 bucks five years later.

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      2 days ago

      To be fair if you take a flagship Android that cost similarly to what the pro iPhone cost the iPhone resell value is still usually way higher as the years go on even though the initial prices were the same.

      But does it really matter?

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      You can sell used iPhones for hundreds of euros where I’m from, even 4-5 year old models.

      With that in mind, the euros per month of ownership might be about equivalent or in favour of Apple when comparing to Android flagships.

      Of course, flagships never have good value propositions in the first place.