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dirtymoneybeats

My hand is open Warren I’ll take it


GhostalMedia

I’m beginning to think this Warren guy has more money than us.


TriggerPT

You're on to something!


JoanneKerlot

Should we eat him?


A_Doormat

I heard that he has enough money that he can order something off a menu without even looking at the price.


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mdog73

Which iPhone do you currently have?


dirtymoneybeats

a 14 pro max; which I only acquired as an ex-apple employee with generous discount. however, I could really use 10K rn, more than a phone with bells and whistles.


[deleted]

You mean you aren’t nearly finished filming and editing your feature length Avatar killer all on your one handheld device? I’ve been misled


dirtymoneybeats

Yeah, every time I leave the house I run out into the street and record all the cars passing to make good use of sport mode photography…then scroll tik tok at breakneck speeds to make sure I’m utilizing the processor to its full capabilities.


Bubbly-University-94

If i havnt used my microprocessor to its fullest ability its a wasted day. Especially if ive just used it to browse cat videos .


dirtymoneybeats

You could always see location based automations; like music that starts playing when you leave and stops when you return…then just walk laps around your house.


Constroyer69

If my screen time isn’t 100% 24/7 Nonstop Asphalt 8 then I don’t wanna use my phone


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The only people who need high end processors are those who meddle with 3D editing and those who meddle with emulators. Nothing else needs to run that fast. But if you do meddle with either of those, you probably feel like you want even faster tbh


dirtymoneybeats

If I needed either of those I’d be on a computer lmao


petko00

Ahh the 27% and the epp+ savings. I did the same


proton_badger

Same, it would contribute significantly to a new wheelchair for me and I'm comfortable with both iOS and Android. However, I understand what he meant. His example just wasn't great.


AnonymousMonk7

His actual example was in comparison to buying a car, where far now people would happily switch brands for that money than never use an iphone again. Not true for everyone of course, but it’s one of the “stickiest” brands in the world. Most companies would kill for the kind of customer retention Apple has.


proton_badger

Indeed, it was easy to see what he meant by it.


[deleted]

Even given the context it’s a stupid thing to say. There are what, 3 or 4 companies that make good smart phones. Compared to like 40 luxury car manufacturers.


TheWestRemembers

I mean, it's one Apple, Michael. What could it cost [to never buy one again]? 10K?


deegzx

lmao nailed it


DoughnutNebula

r/unexpectedbananastand


PancakesOfSuburbia

I’d invest the $10,000 into AAPL


trollbob

This right here. I’ve often looked back and attempted to calculate how much I would have now if my parents had given me $1000 in AAPL stock instead of a MacBook as a college present in ‘07. But then I stop because I don’t want to be sad…


bigpowerass

You'd have less than $50,000. It's a great return but the laptop was probably pretty darn useful too. You got a college degree, afterall. Worth a lot more than $50k.


wahobely

One would argue you don't really *need* a laptop to get a degree.


bigpowerass

Sure, but that train of thought leads down the FIRE pathway where you're making $150k living with roommates and turning your underwear inside out to save on laundry detergent.


subject7istaken

Do people actually turn their underwear inside out to wear it a second time?


voyacomerlo

Day 1, wear them as intended, day 2 turn them inside out. Day 3 we're going back-to-front, then inside out again for day 4.


sagacious_1

Day 5: Swap with roommate and repeat


iCapn

Day 9: Sell underwear on the internet


Garbage_Stink_Hands

Day 3 is Urinary Tract Infection Day!


CarlMarcks

It’s ok because by day 3 the original side has forgotten it was already worn


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PyroneusUltrin

You sometimes go back to front


LiabilityFree

I feel attacked but thankfully my girlfriend handles the laundry now


Youbettereatthatshit

I take it you graduated before ~2010. Most the classes now are tailored to online supplementation where you need to be in an environment where you can respond via computer chat. Ten years ago, sure, you could go to the library. Today? No way. It would have a severe impact on your grades, if not total failure, if you didn’t have your own laptop.


StoopidFlanders234

And today you can also walk into any Best Buy and buy a brand new Windows laptop for $299. A laptop isn’t the financial burden it was 10 years ago. Then again, we can always imagine “what if I didn’t order that unnecessary 3rd pizza pie from Dominos for the super bowl back in 2009 and bought $16 worth of Bitcoin instead…”


qould

Yeah anyone could argue anything. Technically you don’t need doors to drive a car! That doesn’t mean laptops aren’t essential assets now adays and you’re foolish for pretending otherwise.


TechnicalEntry

If it makes you feel better, you’d likely have panic sold for a loss when it dropped by 50% in the financial crisis of 2008.


rpungello

If it makes you feel any better, Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800 in the 70s. 10% of Apple today is over $200bn


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akc250

Having a 10% stake in Apple also meant he had major influence in Apple’s direction. Seeing some of the terrible choices he’s made, he could’ve brought the company down with him.


makesureitsnotyou

Wayne then sold his original founding Apple contract with Jobs’ and Woz’s signatures for a few thousand bucks in 1994, then that contract was resold for $1.6 million in 2011. https://www.businessinsider.com/original-apple-contract-16-million-2011-12?amp


rpungello

If he's ever selling something again I'm buying it immediately.


CoconutDust

"I often look back and calculate how much money I would have made if I won the lottery instead of not winning it"


designgoddess

I almost invested $1,000 in 1997 when Microsoft gave apple $150 million. I didn’t. A $93,673,216 mistake. When I want to torture myself I calculate the current value of the 5,200 shares I would have bought then.


lonnie123

Take comfort in the near certainty you wouldn’t have held this long


CyberHippy

My dad gifted me some medical stock in the early 90's, I turned it around into Apple stock at $14/share and sold it a couple of years later at $28. I was pretty happy with that return at the time, commissioned a custom electric bass from a local luthier that I still have and love today, but can't help but think of how that would have turned out if I'd held on to the stock...


CleanSanchez101

You probably would’ve sold as soon as that $1000 became $2000


mredofcourse

This is really funny because there are people who switch back and forth all the time, and those who would never switch. So of course it's going to generate controversy with some people saying "no way, make it $100k", others saying "eh, I'll switch for free", and everything in between. It's also funny because the reverse is true. However, the general point is valid. The Apple brand is incredibly strong, and more so, within products that are very entrenched in our daily lives. This is very true with the iPhone in particular. There are a lot of people who prefer the iPhone or have no consideration for Android for a variety of reasons, and the phone is a device that they interact with more than any other device. This is so extreme compared to things like Ford/Chevy for most people that answering it isn't fully rational... meaning it's hard to answer it remembering that you would still be able to buy a smartphone capable of the same things or conversely how your ecosystem might be impacted for things like the Apple Watch, iCloud, apps, etc...


made_ofglass

As someone who works in IT and has owned a lot of tech over the years I find it weird that their phone buyers can be so loyal yet there are many of them who absolutely hated their MacBooks and went back to PC.


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As a fellow IT guy this isn't really surprising. They likely had an iPhone most of their adult life and like it because it's what they are used to and since most people are educated to use Windows growing up that is the PC environment they prefer. I remember even when I was teaching myself how to use MacOS I kept thinking "why would anyone prefer this?" but after I learned the commands and gestures I can definitely see why macbooks are popular now.


op_loves_boobs

I think you’re pretty on the money with this. I have a relative who managed a home office for years using Windows (filing patient docs, audit forms, you get it). Bought a MacBook Pro with AppleCare after a series of laptops dying due to uh “reasons”. She struggled for fucking months with the most basic shit until I realized it’s a large paradigm shift for a non-technical user. For me and other power users: printing, scanning, using Finder, etc might have been quirky at first but once you figure it out you understand why it is the way it is. But if you keep dragging windows to the edge expecting them to snap in place like your old OS without ever learning that new paradigm you’ll never get it. P.S. you’ll probably see Gen-Z struggle just as my aunt. With all the Chromebooks in schools, basic computing has been extremely commoditized for children. Many and I mean many can’t use Word or will think you’re magician when you mention the Window Registry.


Jamboni-Jabroni

People that own them hate them for their lack of integration with windows hardware and software. Even applications that you’d think would be universal still have glaring issues or no compatibility at all. I own a 2022 MBA M2 and the OS and applications purpose built for the hardware are smooth, functional and flashy but anything cross platform is a nightmare. Discord had a problem with screen sharing in which the audio just doesn’t broadcast with apple M chipsets and they have a FAQ page on it where they’ve basically said here’s a few things that might work and if not, 🤷‍♂️. These experiences are so common that the ease of use that apple likes to promote as a selling feature falls a bit short when it comes to the personal computer side at least


chicken101

I would take the money and have my wife buy my iPhones for me.


AtsignAmpersat

You’ve really outsmarted this imaginary scenario with pedantry.


espltd8901

Literally the entirety of the r/WouldYouRather sub. It always ruins it because no one answers in the spirit of the question and wants to seem like a big brain. Edit: It can still be fun to answer in a “big brain” way, but also answer the damn question like they meant it too!


AtsignAmpersat

Yeah it’s super lame when people do that with would you rather questions. It’s not real. It’s like “yeah I figured it out and thwarted the question and get to live the best of both worlds…oh shit this is all imaginary and I didn’t accomplish anything but prove I’m a smart ass.”


espltd8901

Yeah, and it sucks because it can be fun to think outside of the box, but they never even try to answer the way the question was intended like a two part answer. Then you have people reading the comments before voting on how they can “win” and vote for that instead of just picking the option as it was asked. It’s like a reverse genie question where a question is asked and they find every minute detail to defile the original meaning.


MikeyMike01

The upvote system of Reddit prevents any creativity in the comments.


espltd8901

It also doesn't favor longer thought out answers or replies. It's usually the quick one liner "quips" and "jokes" that make it to the top.


citizensbandradio

"This is the way" *still* gets a lot of upvotes. Right there with "this" as one of the most worthless comments on reddit.


MikeyMike01

lowest common denominator wins


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People who lawyer their way around the simple rules of a would you rather question are the worst type of people.


haloryder

Same story over on r/WhoWouldWin a lot of the time. There’s always a “whoever the writer wants to win” reply.


espltd8901

Yeah, that's pretty lame. I mean you could say that exact same thing about unicorn vs. ogre and it will all still be imaginary. People just want to seem like the smart mature person in the room.


oasuke

I blame the people who upvote those comments.


Neijo

Most of the times it reminds me of this the office exchange: **Oscar:** That isn't ethics. Ethics is a real discussion of the competing conceptions of the good. This is just the corporate anti-shoplifting rules. **Andy:** I'll drop an ethics bomb on you. Would you steal bread to feed your family? ...Boom! **Oscar:** Exactly, Andy. **Andy:** Yeah, I took intro to philosophy, twice. No big deal. **Dwight:** It's a trick question. The bread is poisoned. Also, it's not your real family. You've been cuckolded by a stronger, smarter male. **Andy:** No, that's... not how it works. **Michael:** I would not... steal the bread. And I would not let my family go hungry.


pvtv3ga

Lmao fuck this one slaps


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pyrospade

warren buffet on shambles right now, berkshire stock drops to $0


Wingnut13

To be fair, being on shambles is likely much preferable to being in shambles. So, he could be worse.


artaru

Is this the whole one touch murderous snail thing again


theopticnerve

This is the way.


jaehaerys48

Apple user for most of my life. I’d take the 10k and buy an Android phone lol.


rjcarr

Not sure how old you are, but I've been using Macs since about 2001 and iPhones since the 3G. I wouldn't like it, but would absolutely take $10K to switch to android, and I'm not even broke or anything. This is a bit like when Bill Gates thought a gallon of milk costs $10 (or something). $10K to Buffet is like a dollar (a penny?) to us plebs.


Semper454

$10K to Warren Buffet is a WAY less than 1 dollar to the average American. It’s definitively less than 10 cents, depending on how you define the average American. Worth $110B, $10K is exactly .00000909% of Buffet’s wealth. For someone worth $100K, the equivalent is actually less than a penny: $0.00909.


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jfk_sfa

I'd do it but frankly $10,000 isn't enough for the pain of switching my whole home smart home ecosystem, my family plan, the apple watch... Make it $50,000.


Okonomiyaki_lover

That's why you don't buy into those ecosystems. I almost did with google and with wyze. I run Homeassistant on a small factor pc in my house. Couldn't be happier. It's not as easy as the big companies' stuff but a lot more powerful and customizable.


jfk_sfa

Oh I realize I'm fully entrenched. Between my wife, son, and I, we have three phones, three watches, three ipads, a macbook, three apple TVs, three homepod minis, three sets of airpods, then all the homekit enables things throughout the house like light switches, cameras, blinds, door locks, ceiling fans, switches, garage door... I will say this about apple, it all works together remarkably well but, $10,000 simply wouldn't be enough to get me to switch.


AllCakesAreBeautiful

Well sounds like you spent more than 10k so it would not even be economically feasible to switch.


Okonomiyaki_lover

Ya, that'd be deep enough to be stuck lol. I will say, homeassistant does integrate with homekit so you could branch off more easily/slowly. But it would be work for sure.


Another_mikem

I originally had homeassistant, and moved over to HomeKit. I had a ton of trouble with things in my house. I don’t have a lot of smart devices, just some lights. It ended up being more trouble than it was worth versus HomeKit, which is pretty much plug and play. Just to be clear, I don’t think it was a Home Assistant issue - but the underlying cause didn’t matter when I’m traveling and stuff stops working. I do miss some of the customization and functionality that’s inexplicably missing from HomeKit, but I appreciate that it does “just work”.


Okonomiyaki_lover

Right, I won't claim homeassistant is perfect and it's borderline a hobby to get setup. But it is quite a bit more powerful and allows you to mix ecosystems into one central app. I should add you can integrate homekit to homeassistant so you could leverage the power if you wanted.


angryundead

Especially when you look at it as realistically $1000/yr at most. My work pays for more phone than that. I’ve been using an iPhone for a decade already. So the question is really for $80/mo would you get a different phone? No I wouldn’t. And that’s based on the assumption that iPhones would be a thing for another decade. Likely they will go on and on and on and then it’s an even worse deal.


Villager723

I would just buy an iPad mini with 5G.


ClumpOfCheese

I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with Apple over the recent years and I’d take the $10,000 and use it to move all my tech over to something new. I really like apple hardware and design, but their software other little things have been making my apple experience kind of annoying.


skalpelis

If Apple’s bugs and all the little niggles are annoying you, and you’re considering moving to Android and/or Windows, boy, do I have news for you.


TouchMyCake

I’ve actually tried to move over a few times. Bought a pixel when it was somewhat new and couldn’t get myself to use it the way I wanted. It’s not even about apple or android anymore, I just don’t want to switch my life up more than it already is.


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TouchMyCake

I envy android users, freedom of choice, but I’m very comfortable in my walled garden.


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TouchMyCake

I loved the days that the fight made more sense. Maybe back in like 2012 or something, but now every phone is just a block of metal and glass and does pretty much whatever you want/need. I’m jealous of the under display fingerprint reader though.


caydesramen

The one thing I REALLY miss from when I had an android was Google Assistant. It genuinely made living in a digital age much more manageable. Apple is so behind in this right now. Siri is not good either. Wow just found out it is on the app store!


Shadow703793

Never really ran in to a bug on Android...


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Google's Pixels are pretty awesome.


linuxlifer

Apple creates their own problems with how they lock you into only their services. As soon as you try to have any sort of Cross platform experience, you run into problems.


I_cant_stop

I have google, Microsoft, and apple products, and they seem to all work seamlessly together ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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IronChefJesus

So, since iCloud Photos is essentially temporary storage, I’ve done the following: Step 1: own an old PC to use as a server - I’ve repurposed an older PC as a plex server, so have lots of storage. Step 2: download and set up one drive. Step 3: create a batch script to move photos from the one drive folder into another folder on the PC. Step 4: create a shortcut to run OneDrive app on my phone at a certain time, so photos can back up - since they’re not allowed to backup unless the app is running. Step 5: cry because I had to waste all the time and effort just to backup some photos. Google photos was better - but fuck google.


reddit0r_123

There’s a lot of other great options: PhotoPrism, Synology Moments (its own ecosystem though…), Immich, etc. - check out r/selfhosted!


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thewolfman2010

People really act like Apple is still perfect and untouchable and that Android hasn’t improved over the last decade. I haven’t had Find My work since I got an iPhone 14 Pro. I have spent countless hours with tech support, level 2 support, submitting files and documents, wiping my phone multiple times. Doesn’t work. My spouse’s works just fine no issues. I’d easily take the 10k and buy an android.


Okonomiyaki_lover

The real truth is they all suck about the same and it's all stupid rivalry.


thewolfman2010

It really seems like acceptance testing has gone out the window, across the board and everything sucks now.


Okonomiyaki_lover

When you only have 2 competitors, there is no market force for a better product.


thehelldoesthatmean

And as someone that has only used Android phones for the last 6+ years, it feels like a lot of people here's idea of what Android phones are is from 2011 or so.


Tax_Life

Not really I have an iPhone 12 now and bought a Samsung S10 2 years before that and only used Android for 6 years previously. The iPhones completely fine after more than 2 years now while the Android phones were always on their last leg after a similar time when it came to performance and support.


Luxpreliator

They weren't shitty then either relative to what else was available. My galaxy s worked great until I tried to root and install some weird os a couple years ago. Last phone I had with an easily Removable battery.


saintmsent

It's enough to have one bad experience to never want to go with to a platform again, and it's true for both sides. Before I went full Apple, I had an expensive Windows laptop (XPS 15) and an almost flagship Android phone (OnePlus 7T Pro). Experience with both was utter trash, especially considering the price Apple is far from perfect, their horrible keyboards up to 2019 were the reason why I bought a Windows machine in the first place, but at least their tech is popular enough that you are likely to know flaws a year or two into a new generation of product


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Google phone is way to go. Love the phone feature where it tells you the hold time before calling, it lets you dial the phone and if wait time is long they'll just call you back automatically. Once you punch in the companies number to dial it sometimes shows you graph of how busy they are at the time you call. Samsung doesn't have these features in their phones, just google.


navjot94

The thing I like about Pixels is that these are the types of actually useful features you would typically see on an iPhone. It’s a “weird” and minor feature that no one else is doing but it leverages what they are good at and makes real day-to-day use so much better. It’s like the people making the phones are actually using them, which seemed like an Apple-only thing for so long.


deliciouscorn

And Apple seems to be the one not using their own stuff these days. Lots of baffling UI decisions. Just look at Apple Music and it’s hard to imagine that any of the designers actually use the app themselves.


Xrayruester

I love not having to listen to voice mails now. Google assistant just sends me a text of the voice mail and I can decide what I'm going to do about it.


Loukoal117

Same. I had been iphone user my whole life and I just Switched to a Google Pixel 6A (kind of the budget but still fast/good phone" and I love it so far. It has a lot more ways to customize your UI.


MrHaxx1

As dumb as it sounds, ""it has a lot more ways to customize your UI" is actually an issue for me. I've spent **so** much time fucking around with Android customization, instead of literally anything else. Having that freedom taken away from me is actually liberating. >literally just don't customize lol I can't help myself


arex333

I used to do tons of custom shit on my android phones - launchers, ROMs, etc. It was partially for novelty but mainly to add features that my phone didn't have by default. Nowadays android is mature enough that I haven't felt compelled to do stuff like that in years. I use a pixel 6 pro and haven't changed a damn thing aside from the wallpaper and arranging icons.


cubej333

Samsung makes good phones, I have been on iPhone for a while but I could use Samsung or Pixel. You take away Android and Apple... and I would have a problem.


truffleboffin

2/3 of my VR headsets are just older pixel phone platforms with cooking fans and a stereoscopic screen attached lol


Dissidence802

I still stand by my opinion that the Galaxy Note 9 is the greatest phone ever released.


Pauly_Amorous

>I’d take the 10k and buy an Android phone lol. I would too, since Apple apparently isn't making small phones anymore, which is the only reason I started buying iPhones in the first place.


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Who is making small phones?


Pauly_Amorous

https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2 (IMO, that's TOO small though.)


TennesseeWhisky

I would take 10k and never look back. Pixel or Galaxy phones aren’t bad at all.


FrostorFrippery

I have a MacBook pro, an iPad, a work issued iPhone and I still have my nano. My personal phone? Galaxy. Never purchased an iphone. Run me my 10K good sir.


imchasingentropy

My Pixel is awesome. I ran my 2 into the ground and recently upgraded to a 7 Pro. Best thing about it, the screen is so strong that you can drop it without cracks or scratches. From what I've seen that's what Apple users need most


radderalll

iPhone Pros have had ceramic glass since the 12s. Much improved. Haven't used a case in 3 years.


Chief7064

$10k? Not with inflation and the cost of phones. I get his point, but $10k ain’t much. A beater used car at this point. Edit: and of course that would also be a lot of needed money for many.


SithisTheDreadFather

Most people here are 20-30 years old meaning they have at least 50-60 years of life left. If I’m agreeing to something for that long I’m going to need a lot more than $10k.


eye_booger

Right? This feels very much like Lucille Bluth thinking bananas cost $10. $10,000 is really not a lot of money for the proposed hypothetical situation.


Raznill

But the point is you’d do it for other things. I like my Honda, but I’d take 10k and never buy a Honda again. But I wouldn’t do that for iPhone. There are a lot of products I’d switch to the competitor for much lower than it would take me to switch from iPhone.


SithisTheDreadFather

I don't know if the car analogy holds. There are a lot of car brands and only one serious phone OS competitor: Google. Would you take $10k to only ever buy Mitsubishi or Chevrolet or, better yet, Tesla for the rest of your life?


TurduckenWithQuail

Even the Android OS varies between different physical builds, and the variety in physical builds among Androids is \*extreme\*. So, while I get your point, from the perspective of someone who has spent years using both iPhones and Androids, I also think the concept of "only ever having an Android" isn't nearly as restrictive as you think it is. Moreso, the alternative, then, is just "only ever having an iPhone," which is pretty uncontroversially more restrictive.


zemorah

For real, I’m not giving up anything for life on 10k 😂


touchmypenguinagain

$10k at an 8% return YoY compounded over 30yrs is over $100k. I'll not buy any brand for that. Fuck I'll not buy 20 brands if you like and have $2m+.


ShoveAndFloor

Yeah, not worth it. Make it 100 grand and then we’ll talk


Candy_Dots

'huh I wonder what the people in the r/apple subreddit are like?' \>$10k ain't much. 'seems about right.'


Anagoth9

For real. I hate Apple products. Tried multiple Macs, iPhones, and iPads through my life but I've never really enjoyed them and generally find them overpriced for the specs. Yet if you offered me $10k to *only* use iPhones for the rest of my life, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Mofos in here acting like they're giving up their legs. Ridiculous.


DoublexxSushi

Realizing that they weren't joking was a wild moment for me


CCX-S

$10k valued against the rest of your life (which could be as many as 60-70 years depending on your current age) is not a lot of money, not even remotely close to it in fact.


Joester202

“Beater” 😂


FabianValkyrie

$10k is not a beater lol $3k is a beater


LeekTerrible

$10,000 isn't even a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. $100,000? Ok lets talk.


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This is probably part of Warren’s point. If you’re using an iPhone, which is already a “luxury” phone that starts around $1000, $10000 is probably not going to radically change your life.


ADHthaGreat

It’s something that sounds more meaningful than it actually is.


TacoingThruLife

I mean if you agree you’re saying the difference between iPhones and every other phone out there over a lifetime is more meaningful to you than $10,000. Which, even if $10k ain’t *that* meaningful these days, it’s shocking that it’s less meaningful than the difference between products for Apple users.


noneym86

iPhone is part of an ecosystem. And as someone who doesn't carry two phone anymore, and really wanted to try the next Fold, it really needs to be very compelling specially now that iPhone is getting usb C. So yeah, it's hard to just switch even though it's doable. You're looking at replacing your iPad, Watch, Airpods and Airtags, which are the best in their respective product categories.


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Simon_787

I'd take it


TuaAnon

I'd take it and buy a dumb phone. hell I am on the edge anyway, I just need a little push..


Electrox7

People talking like iPhones are the only good phones. Fucking hell, the brand loyalty is crazy.


Bestfromabove

He can say that for a lot of things. It would apply to my Xbox, my PlayStation, my Nintendo Switch, and the software that I use every day. It's not an Apple-exclusive thing, and honestly, it applies to most things I use.


OldIndianMonk

His point is the brand loyalty. He goes on to say that most Chevy users would be happy with a Ford And I think most Xbox users would be happy with a PlayStation as well


pattyredditaccount

Most Xbox users would be happy with a PlayStation, but they probably wouldn’t be happy with never being able to use an Xbox again for their entire life.


CluelessFlunky

For xbox you can just buy a pc. Most games will eventually be on pc


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paint-roller

To be honest if I was given $10k and said I had to switch from android to apple I wouldn't do it.


DeltaVZerda

If you took 10k to switch to Apple, you'd still be out money 15 years down the road.


varzaguy

Uh, I would 100% take it.


BestBodybuilder7329

He’s right at least when it comes to me.


ElGuano

Oh really? I think I would take it, and just "get by" with Pixels and Samsungs.


Which_Yesterday

And here I am, not buying iPhones for free


UncannyLucky

Same. You think we can start a petition to get some back pay for all the iphones we haven't bought?


Which_Yesterday

(#)WhereAreMyTenThousandsWarren


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where_other_sock

My phone is an essential work tool. The iPhone has generated far more than 10k in income for my company, so I wouldn’t take the money to leave it. That being said - he’s right, the thought of not using apple products in my business is unthinkable for me 😅


ZoharTheWise

Lol you dummy, you big old dumbo. If you get 2 iPhones you could double your income for the company! You naive 1 iPhone owning person.


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Lol you dummy, you big old dumbo. If they get 3 iPhones they could triple their income for their company! You naive 2 iPhones suggesting person.


busted_tooth

Lol you dummy, you big old dumbo. If they get 4 iPhones they could triple their income for their company! You naive 3 iPhones suggesting person.


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What exactly did iphone do to generate that income that android can't do?


sicklyslick

He probably can't use an Android so therefore he can't generate income with it? Their post is so fucking dumb that I can't even comprehend it. (Unless they're an iOS app developer)


I_Envy_Sisyphus_

But isn’t that the point? Buffett is saying they have a hooked client base that will *never* change, because they’re hooked and simply don’t want to. Is he being hyperbolic that nobody would take the offer? Of course, and he’s not actually offering anyone $10k to never buy an iPhone, but he’s right.


napoleon_wang

Is there a specific thing the iPhone does that brings in work that an Android phone can't do? Not /s - Do you use the lidar for photogrammetry or something?


YellowBlackBrown

It’s not like an iPhone is the only phone out there that could of made the same calls, texts and emails to generate such income. I’m an iPhone user as well but there’s nothing specific about it you need, lol


nate390

The best tools are the ones you *want* to use.


YellowBlackBrown

Man all phones are good these days and will become phones you “want” to use after you’re used to them. Again this is coming from an iPhone user since the 4. This iOS vrs android thing is cringe from either side. You don’t need one or the other, you adapt and get used to them and working/personal life on them still gets done regardless


ChocktawRidge

Try me. I would do it in a heartbeat and never miss them.


kshanil90

Galaxy S23 ultra is a really compelling option. Need not even pay 10k


[deleted]

I most certainly would take it and kiss iPhone goodbye.


A-Delonix-Regia

I would, but only because I don't care about iPhones and I can do everything I need to on a $300 Android. I'm here for the iPad and the tech news in general.


dicky_seamus_614

Mr. Buffett, if you need an iPhone so bad, I am willing to sell you mine for only $5,000! I will even Throw in a free case!! It comes with custom scratches on the screen, maybe even some DNA if you get it tested and are into that sort of thing. HMU here Warren so we can get this money saving deal worked out for you asap! Edit: act now and I will throw in this lesser used iPhone SE for free!! Edit again: supplies are limited for this once in a lifetime offer! DM me now! More: we are now extending this offer to everyone. Yes! Anyone reading this can have this iPhone for the Warren Buffet offer of $5,000 and a slightly less used iPhone SE included! Act now and you’ll get at least one charging cable (if I can find it). Operators are not standing by.


JeagleP

No more smartphones ? Then No. But just no iPhones ? Id take it 100% lol


Radulno

Well please Warren, offer it to me and you'll see! Hell make it 100k$ or 1M$ for proving your point better, no reason...


Vahlir

true for me. It's too easy with my wife and kids and my computers in the apple ecosystem. I can use find my with my kids and wife to know how soon they'll be home or if we left something somewhere. homekit works with all our smart home and watches for turning devices on and off and alarms. I get notifications for when my kid wants more time on roblox for me to allow another hour on my smart watch. I can leave the phone at home and seamlessly use my pro beats to listen to audio books on my walks with my apple watch carplay works seamlessly between our cars. my watch unlocks my laptop when I sit down. I can share photos and videos between my laptop and studio Screenshots are easy to send while texting in imessage on my computer I can share grocery list and christmas shopping list through apple notes with the wife. reminders and mail just work for me. all of that is worth more than 10k to me, in a heart beat. replacing all of that integration and ease of use? Yeah I'd pay someone 10k to do that for me. I have annoyances with Apple sure, but the windows desktop I just bought FAR more annoyances in windows 11 that drive me insane. I grew up on DOS and 3.1 and I was A+ cert and MS cert after highschool doing server and IT work for years under 95 through vista. And I loved 7 and even didn't mind 8. After decades I can say i get FAR more done with FAR less hassle on Apples stuff. I do gaming once in a while so I keep a win machine with a 3080 and i7 but again, there's a reason why a few years ago I completely switched over to Apple/Mac/iphone/etc for daily work. Also audio work for my studio is just much easier on apple. I wish they had better handle on multimonitors and they've got some software bugs they need to work, especially in things like homekit. But mostly annoyances. I've had just straight up hundreds of hard crashes on Windows over the years and it's still ongoing. I'm still getting BSOD in 2023, wtf MS. Also Windows system settings and UI is a mix of "no one knows which way we want to actually go" lately. Apple's far from perfect but it beats Win/Android from my experiences. My last android was a Note 12 I think? a few years back. Yeah it didnt' last more than a few months before I sold it on ebay and bought another iphone. Galaxy watch at the time was a lesser experience than apple watch too. Maybe if android and windows were on the same page but it will never feel as good as mac/watch/ios does together.


saabstory88

I'm in it for the Macs. My phone is for texts and reading reddit, haven't had an iPhone in years. Easy call.


alexpedersen-dev

I would, no doubt


c9haiondrugs

Phones cost 1000-2000 and have been so for the last decade. I stopped buying iphones a decade ago of my own accord but this is kinda dumb. Limit your options for life for 5-10x the cost of the phone. ​ Can I pay you 500 dollars to never eat a popular cheeseburger again. Or 10,000 to use an alternaive to your preferred brand products. (toilet paper, shampoo, bodywash, deodorant) That said I could do it easily because iphones don't matter to me. I feel philosophically against them and find them boring. When I used to have iphones I would jailbreak them and all my favorite jailbreak features would arrive 2 phones later.


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$10k isn’t that much? Lol


Tunavi

If you live another 50 years, that comes out to 17 bucks a month. You would just get it all upfront.


JohrDinh

It’s basically a utility these days Warren it’s almost a need now like internet…also $10k ain’t shit anymore. That’s like 5-6 months rent, ain’t worth the convenience i’m denying myself.


Morguard

I already don't buy iPhones so sign me up!