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Compare the New iPhone Models

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42 points skadamat | 8 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:26 UTC | HN request time: 2.009s | source | bottom
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mrweasel ◴[09 Sep 25 19:07 UTC] No.45187118[source]▶
The cheapest of the new phones is 7500DKK ~ 1175USD. That is just insane. I get that I can get an older models and that Apple is a "luxury" brand, but at $1000+ I don't get who buys new iPhones anymore.

Apple seems stuck in a mentality of subsidized phones, which might still be how the US does it, but it makes their product unreasonably expensive in other parts of the world. I can accept that Apple can't do a $200 phone, but that this point I'd be happy with a $500 phone.

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1. ceejayoz ◴[09 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45187218[source]▶
The original iPhone was $499 in 2007. That's $800 today with inflation per https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm. The cheapest model is "from $799", so… the price is basically unchanged for two decades.
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2. mrweasel ◴[09 Sep 25 19:21 UTC] No.45187353[source]▶
The first iPhone in Denmark was 5500DKK in 2008 (at least that's the number I can find). In 2022 I could get the iPhone SE for 4500DKK, så the price actually went down a bit
3. dingaling ◴[09 Sep 25 19:34 UTC] No.45187563[source]▶
Inflation calculation doesn't quite work like that. Mobile phones are part of the basket of consumer goods prices that are tracked ( with weightings applied to compensate for increasing complexity and capability ). So they help to define inflation, rather than being the outcome of it.

You'd really need to compare to average salary or purchasing power instead.

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4. ceejayoz ◴[09 Sep 25 19:44 UTC] No.45187692[source]▶
It's a perfectly useful way of looking at it, but if you prefer:

Average salary 2007: $40,405.48; 2023: $66,621.80.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awidevelop.html

5. tanjtanjtanj ◴[09 Sep 25 19:47 UTC] No.45187739[source]▶
It was $499 with a multi-year contract with AT&T.

AT&T most year offers me a free!* iPhone pro every couple years now so it has actually gone way down.

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6. vostrocity ◴[09 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45188620[source]▶
You're likely paying a lot for your phone plan. Unlimited plans these days are in the $25-35 range.
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7. shuckles ◴[10 Sep 25 02:14 UTC] No.45192285[source]▶
This logic doesn't make sense. The opportunity cost (i.e. the basket of goods you forego buying) of buying an iPhone is exactly the same as it was when the device first launched. No single good in the basket is such a large component of overall measure that you can't use inflated prices to understand, in relative terms, the cost of a good.
8. tanjtanjtanj ◴[10 Sep 25 15:05 UTC] No.45198866{3}[source]▶
I have their cheapest unlimited plan.