08-03-2017, 02:09 PM
Seems too expensive. The issue (for me) is that the phones become out dated too fast and updates stop arriving. My current phone is 3 years old and I suspect if I wanted to push it another 2 years I could though I'm tempted to upgrade this cycle. It hasn't received an os update in 1+ years (though it still receives security updates).
One could say the same thing about electronic cameras and so forth. They just don't last (not because of durability but because technology is changing too fast). My manual camera (olympus om-1) lasted 25+ years (74 or 75 to 2005). My second camera (contax) lasted 12 years (2000-2012) - but the death was mostly due to technology change. However, my digital cameras are lucky to last 5 years.
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Anyways I'm just not sure I would want to spend 1200 on a phone unless it was absolutely perfect. Of course (USA) you can no longer get 'free' phones so the price difference isn't quite that great (I think samsung 8 was around $750) as it used to be ($200).
One could say the same thing about electronic cameras and so forth. They just don't last (not because of durability but because technology is changing too fast). My manual camera (olympus om-1) lasted 25+ years (74 or 75 to 2005). My second camera (contax) lasted 12 years (2000-2012) - but the death was mostly due to technology change. However, my digital cameras are lucky to last 5 years.
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Anyways I'm just not sure I would want to spend 1200 on a phone unless it was absolutely perfect. Of course (USA) you can no longer get 'free' phones so the price difference isn't quite that great (I think samsung 8 was around $750) as it used to be ($200).