Can anyone tell me what could possibly warrant any cell phone being worth $1200 ???!!!
I think that’s why Steve Jobs was so visionary. It wasn’t that he was the first to create a product line. He was the visionary who realized people would pay just about any price for it.
“If we put on a PRICE TAG (all caps)… they will buy!”
Just a note on that: some batteries are designed to stop charging when they reach 100%, but a lot of phone (even big name ones) use cheap batteries. Leaving them plugged in can (over a period of a year or so) cause the battery to swell and ruin the phone. I had a phone that this happened to, and it actually split the phone in two. Other batteries… explode.
Manufacturers suggest that we unplug batteries once they are fully charged. Leaving them plugged in overnight is usually okay, but those who leave them plugged in whenever they’re at home may significantly shorten the life of the battery… and thus the phone since most phones today don’t allow battery replacement.
And why don’t today’s phones allow people to open them and replace the batteries? Because they know people will overcharge them… and then the companies get to sell a new phone (or connected service)!
These companies would be quite happy if everyone who owns a cell phone had to buy a new one every year or two. >:p
About 30 years ago (or more… wow time really flies) I read that for every hour of television we watch, about 23 minutes of that is commercials (I don’t know what the actual amount is now). But I went home and joined the “cut the cord” movement and cancelled my cable subscription. I was not going to waste that much of my life watching commercials.
At the same time, I stopped watching television altogether. Because I realized that not only were commercials robbing me of valuable time… so was TV. It is the modern-day “Opiate of the Masses”.
Not that that really did me any good because I already had Netflix or watched DVDs. But at least I could now choose exactly what I watched and when I would watch it… without commercials.
To this day I believe my life would have been more productive and better without television or movies either one. The sad thing is, one realizes that far too late in life, and after we’re already addicted to that mind-numbing medium.
I do remember reading an article in which they interviewed numerous very successful and wealthy people, to find what traits they had in common. They were surprised to find that NONE of them watched television, ever. They considered it a total waste of time and a brainwashing medium for the masses.
I learned in psych class that the subconscious mind cannot differentiate between what we see on television and real life. I can’t help but wonder what this medium has done to people’s brains over the years, especially since the advent of CGI. I’m sure there’s been some beneficial education in there somewhere… but I’d bet the percentage is very, very low.
I just gotta say this: I been watching the comments the last 2 days, and I weep for this generation. I’d heard that people develop device dependency and phone addiction and I’ve even seen it in action among my friends who can’t seem to resist answering a phone call no matter what and can’t even eat a meal without eyes glued to that screen. But some of these comments reveals how extremely deep that goes.
All I can say, with earnest respect… is that your phone won’t add one minute to your life. In fact, it will steal a great deal of it, and you won’t realize that until you’re out of time.
No one has ever said on their deathbed, “I sure wish I’d spent more time on my phone.”
(I say as I type this on my computer while reading GoComics…) mwahahahaha
General follow-up:
Can anyone tell me what could possibly warrant any cell phone being worth $1200 ???!!!
I think that’s why Steve Jobs was so visionary. It wasn’t that he was the first to create a product line. He was the visionary who realized people would pay just about any price for it.
“If we put on a PRICE TAG (all caps)… they will buy!”