The Iphone 7 is the biggest joke I have ever seen, cost as much as two PS4 Pros, no headphone-jack

[DonFerrari]

torok said:

DonFerrari said:

The problem is that even on jack you could only use apple phone and now without jack they are selling very expensive adapters and special phones, so it's a problem. Besides, I would rather have a more robust and longer batery life instead of a thinnier phone.

I think that the biggest problems is that Apple insists on the Lightning port, while all other phones will use USB type-C. We will end up with a mess. Removing the jack is a good move, replacing it with their proprietary nonsense is stupid. Mind that removing the jack you get space that could go for more mAH.

I'm not into buying Apple stuff just because of their pricing and proprietary nonsense. I'm also not much into Android high-ends, because current premium tier mid-end devices actually do a lot of stuff, unless you plan to game on them, so I'm not paying more just for crappy mobile games. I have a Moto X Play and for a phone that costed less than half most flagships (1/3 of an iPhone), it's fluid, camera is amazing and I even got a massive battery. I would say that a good deal now would be the Moto Z Play instead of any of the current flagships. Even the 64GB model of the Moto G4 costs only 300 on Amazon. That's a steal.

Yes we are totally in the same page. Proprietary shit that is exorbitantly expensive isn't a good thing (even Memory Stick for Vita is well hated, even though it's quite cheap compared to this joke on earphones).

I paid around 200-250 USD in brazil for my Sony M4 while iPhone 6 was around 1k USD because I can't justify paying more than 400 USD on any phone because it is something that we change every 2 years or less, battery always suck and die off, OS doesn't update anymore, scratches, etc. So since M4 would do everything I needed I didn't have to look much further in expending more.

Imaginedvl said:

Clearly for the price you get more juice of this Play Station Four Pro but the main issue with the Play Station Four Pro tho is that it is freaking hot in the pocket! :)

 

How can you even compare the 2? :)

I'm more curious on how did you put PS4 Pro on your pocket with all cables on it. How big are your paints?

KBG29 said:

Sadley the market deems smartphones as god like devices which they are all willing to go dish out $800+ every two years for, but they are disgusted by the idea of a $500 console or a $400 handheld.

Unfortunatly people see these devices as the "proper" place for web browsing, socializing, gaming, etc., and have shoved consoles aside as simple toys.

Personally, I see the me too slab phones as the most useless devices in the history of electronics. I have never spent actual money on one outside of the Xperia Play, because I absolutly hate them. The last two I have used rewards points to buy, and the one before that was a gift, because the Vita with Skype was "Not a real Phone".

Somehow Sony and Microsoft have to conveince more than just me, that shopping, paying bills, watching TV, making videos, editing pictures, buying stocks, socilizing, and playing games are all acceptable activities on consoles. Then we may actually be able to get home computers and mobile companion devices, that are higher price, and better value. But, until that becomes the norm, we will have underpowered consoles, a dieing handheld market, a broken PC market, and an over priced and extreamly limited function mobile market.

I also can't understand this shit... paying 800 USD every year for a phone (because a lot of people do upgrade every 6mo to 1y) while complaining about the price of a console at 400 that you change every 5y (for me the price of SW is a much bigger hassle) and only wanting to buy when it reaches 200.

exdeath said:

greenmedic88 said:
That's just the going rate for smartphones in that category. Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, etc.

Ranting about it is like complaining about the price of an Audi A8 when you could buy a Fiat 500 for a fraction of the price. Or complaining about the price of a Fiat 500 when you could buy a Vespa for a fraction of that.

Furthermore, a console and a smartphone don't even cover the same functions unless you primarily bought a high end model to play games on it, which would show pretty misplaced priorities given that the phone is generally used a communication and productivity device and a console is almost exclusively designed for entertainment.

Lastly, sales reflect the market for each respective device. Apple sold over 231 million iPhones in 2015 alone. Let that sink in. The wildly successful PS4 sold 43.4 million units since 2013 by comparison.

Or maybe it's like a CTS-V vs an A8.  Better in everything, costs less, easier to maintain. Badge isn't as snobby, that's important to some people. Paying more for less like it's something to brag about.

Yep, the guy makes the comparison be like why pay 500k for ferrari if a golf can get you there for 20k. When in reality is why pay a lot more for basically the same thing.