#Poll time!
It looks like #Apple's going to raise their prices. I mean, who isn't? Predatory capitalism is just the thing now.
I'm on an #iPhone 16 Pro, which I bought outright in early 2025.
It is adequate for my needs at this point, but I'm going to outgrow my storage soon because of videos and photos. I enjoy the camera quality and a lot of of the features on the phone, but I do not use Apple Intelligence because I think it's the devil.
What complicates the question is, the 20 TB storage device that I was looking at earlier this year to help ease my photo storage issues (and because this is not my only camera -- I have a GoPro and a Canon) has doubled in price to over $800 now thanks to AI data chips blah blah blah.
So that's half as much as a new phone, but, would be 20-40 times the storage (20 new phone, 40 this phone). I'm still considering that in spite of the price increase, but it's not a factor in this poll today.
So, my question to you is: should I bite the bullet and upgrade to a 17 Pro with a terabyte of storage before they raise prices? Do you think they will raise prices on their existing stock?
Or should I just try to hang onto this device, with its scratched screen and inadequate storage, for another two-ish years and hope that their lease program fails and that I'll be able to outright buy a much better device then? (Because of the scratches, they'll barely give me $50 if I trade this phone in, the jerks.)
For those of you itching to tell me to switch to other phones or operating systems, I'm not ready to do that, but I have been looking at all of the non-android and non-Apple options for a couple of years. Not in a space right now to make a platform switch because of how integrated my work is with my phone -- and the AuDHD. I don't like radical change.
But feel free to comment all you want about them! I enjoy hearing different perspectives, especially if you have had great success with a completely different type of phone. My needs are simple: I need good video and photo quality, and I need a good audio recorder. Then all the other stuff that phones do like calls, video calls, and texting.
Sidenote: I have asked almost every single year, since I got rid of my landline in 2014, if I could get one back, and zero providers do them anymore here.
It looks like #Apple's going to raise their prices. I mean, who isn't? Predatory capitalism is just the thing now.
I'm on an #iPhone 16 Pro, which I bought outright in early 2025.
It is adequate for my needs at this point, but I'm going to outgrow my storage soon because of videos and photos. I enjoy the camera quality and a lot of of the features on the phone, but I do not use Apple Intelligence because I think it's the devil.
What complicates the question is, the 20 TB storage device that I was looking at earlier this year to help ease my photo storage issues (and because this is not my only camera -- I have a GoPro and a Canon) has doubled in price to over $800 now thanks to AI data chips blah blah blah.
So that's half as much as a new phone, but, would be 20-40 times the storage (20 new phone, 40 this phone). I'm still considering that in spite of the price increase, but it's not a factor in this poll today.
So, my question to you is: should I bite the bullet and upgrade to a 17 Pro with a terabyte of storage before they raise prices? Do you think they will raise prices on their existing stock?
Or should I just try to hang onto this device, with its scratched screen and inadequate storage, for another two-ish years and hope that their lease program fails and that I'll be able to outright buy a much better device then? (Because of the scratches, they'll barely give me $50 if I trade this phone in, the jerks.)
For those of you itching to tell me to switch to other phones or operating systems, I'm not ready to do that, but I have been looking at all of the non-android and non-Apple options for a couple of years. Not in a space right now to make a platform switch because of how integrated my work is with my phone -- and the AuDHD. I don't like radical change.
But feel free to comment all you want about them! I enjoy hearing different perspectives, especially if you have had great success with a completely different type of phone. My needs are simple: I need good video and photo quality, and I need a good audio recorder. Then all the other stuff that phones do like calls, video calls, and texting.
Sidenote: I have asked almost every single year, since I got rid of my landline in 2014, if I could get one back, and zero providers do them anymore here.