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

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mountaindewslave said:

Captain_Yuri said:

While I agree that the new iphone is lolz worthy with its lack of a headphone Jack, I can see why people buy them.

Most people that buy iphones don't buy them at full price, majority will most likely go into a contract or go with Apple's Financing option of paying blah per month. So the initial price of the phones is a lot cheaper.

And then of course, phones in general are a necessity and it is nearly impossible to live without a phone these days. But it is more than possible to live without a console. Some people just choose an iphone cause it does more than your typical dumb phone and its apps library is the best there is. For example, I use Google Maps + GPS on my Galaxy S7 all the time to find new locations that I have never been to before. In order to do that before smartphones came out, I had to buy a seperate GPS thing which I had to pay a yearly subsciption in order to get Map updates. 

So I can certainly see it.

its hardly impossible to  live without a celluar phone, the vast majority of jobs, whether schoolteacher, computer analyst, whatever, don't need their phone to call into work constantly when they're at home. 

Its convenient to have a phone today, yes, but again its hardly a requirement unless you work in some profession in which you're some sort of door to door technichian. People do in fact often still have landlines.

People are just obsessed with tacky little things on their phones- games, social media, etc. Its an obsessive convenience which propels people to spend this much on a device that does exactly the same thing as others, and also an attempt to appear socially or technologically superior in some fashion to others. Its the "omg I've got the newest version" mentality.

depressing really

So, what? People don't go out? You do realize that work places call people to come in to work in case if someone is sick of if its an emergancy. Not everyone stays at home all the time. Or what if you are out and you get into an accident or if something bad happens? Or what if your family member needs help and you aren't at home? What if you have to pick up your children from school but they aren't out for quite a while but you don't know why? It really is impossible these days.

It is true that most people don't need all the features that phones can deliver these days but what smartphones allow people to do is to get ahead of others. If you have an email, you can quickly reply. If you are in the stock market, you can trade with your phone. If you are trying to find a new place, you can use your phone to do that. And the list goes on. Yes you don't need the latest and greatest but you certainly need a phone and why not have the best there is if you can afford it?