QOTW: Why don't you own an iPhone?

[Darth Sidious]

I don't sell on my computer/phones... I use it till it dies.... not all of us want to go through the hassle of selling a phone to someone else. Also no point updating something that works fine just to get 'the latest fashion accessory'

most do tho so you are in a minority, and even years down the line iphone 4s get a lot when sold on.

[Darth Sidious]

Apple avaids Tax meaning that we the Tax payer have to carry the cost of this company
They use slave labour at the cost of peoples lives
and I am not paying for a product that is a complete rip off
Apple = the biggest corporate scumbags I could ever speak off so no I am not going to be another sheep to scum like this

utter horse **** virtually all phones use samsung chips which use the same labour, and if you think apple are worse then the petro chemical industry I question your knowledge on corporations

LOL at you

[OilSheikh]

My biggest gripe is that when you drop it, the screen cracks and you have to fork out £200 for a new screen!

[LSG501]

most do tho so you are in a minority, and even years down the line iphone 4s get a lot when sold on.

not in my circle of friends I'm not... I think you're misjudging the amount of people who sell their phones etc and 'must have' the latest fashion accessory.

besides I could easily replace my phone 3-4 times for the cost of an iPhone (I don't do long term contracts either) with phones which are MORE than capable of covering the needs of 90% of smartphone users.

[Chadders87]

They are locked down, over priced and over hyped "accessories".

Poor innovation since the first iPhone, lack of support of new tech, no understanding of a users storage needs and its inability to transfers files using any PC.

And need I mention no micro USB?

However despite this, Apple are really blessed with a brilliant marketing team.

[b0redom]

My biggest gripe is that when you drop it, the screen cracks and you have to fork out £200 for a new screen!

Except that you don't. I smashed the screen on my 1 month old iPhone 6. I called around and then took it to the local Apple store who replaced it the same day for £79. Keep on spreading the FUD though.

[Moogly]

I can get more out of an android device and unlike IOS I don't have to include my blood type and a recent stool sample just to access the Play store.

[Mpicknett]

1. Expensive starting price and ridiculous price if you want decent onboard storage.
2. The bloatware
3. Having to use ITunes to transfer media onto it.
4. Smaller screen size prier to the 6 and 6 plus.

[OilSheikh]

Except that you don't. I smashed the screen on my 1 month old iPhone 6. I called around and then took it to the local Apple store who replaced it the same day for £79. Keep on spreading the FUD though.

Perhaps, they have reduced the price now with iPhone 6. But, with iPhone 5, a colleague had to pay £200 to Apple store to get it fixed and I have heard similar experiences from other people at work as well.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The question to ask is why people put so much faith in superbrands and not try the alternatives??

At the beginning of One-Dimensional Man Marcuse writes, "The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment,"meaning that under capitalism (in consumer society) humans become extensions of the commodities that they buy, thus making commodities extensions of people's minds and bodies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13416598

And when a team of neuroscientists with an MRI scanner took a look inside the brain of an Apple fanatic it seemed the bishop was on to something.

The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.

Companies such as Apple are promoting religious levels of faith in the people who buy their products and hence will always buy them irrespective of how good they are.

[Defiant]

Cost, Locked down environment, Cult following disproportionate to the product and Not innovative as a company these days.

[Darth Sidious]

not in my circle of friends I'm not... I think you're misjudging the amount of people who sell their phones etc and 'must have' the latest fashion accessory.

besides I could easily replace my phone 3-4 times for the cost of an iPhone (I don't do long term contracts either) with phones which are MORE than capable of covering the needs of 90% of smartphone users.

latest fashion?

its basic upgrading, the numbers say you are wrong Apple is tapping it

[TRUTHnTRINITY]

Pay more for less. I have a G2 and to me it's still the best phone on the market. Apple OS actually hinders performance of hardware. All Aple products are overpriced and perform worse than similar hardware specd technology from cellphone/tablets all the way to computers. I despise them as a company and the people that continue to support them I pity. That is all.

[GuidoLS]

I use a phone for one purpose and one purpose only - to dial 7 (or 10, when needed) digits, and TALK to the person on the other end of the line. It doesn't matter if it's a land line or a cell phone. So in that regard, I don't own a smartphone, period.

I also don't own any Apple products - I don't think they're all that special, and I don't think they're all that original. Going back to the good old days of the 6502's, both Atari and Commodore made the Apple look like a weak sister. Nothing has changed. They don't innovate - they take or buy ideas/tech from others, and put their own stamp on it.

Add to that the above mentioned cult like status, and what more do you need?

[LostTech]

Too expensive.
Horrible GUI.
Restrictive Environment.
Low Hackability.
Poor company ethics.

Half a billion is not actually that much... There are roughly 7 billion people in the world, so half a billion is one fourteenth, or 7.15 percent... Not so impressive now is it!!

[hexuqito]

Let's see:
1)It's overpriced
2)It's overpriced
3)It's overpriced
4)I can't stand the "innovation" maybe I'm a self unaware ludite
5)I'm an idiot ( as the latest "research" showed the iPhone users are smarter ) even though I'm an MD on a PhD track.
6)I'm extremely poor ( an average middle class lad)
7)I live in the slams,dumps.
8)I'm not cool,in fashion,I'm ugly ( don't have any tattoos,wash every day,not into hip hop "monkeyisms",haven't done drugs, have all my teeth and shave clean).
9)Musically uneducated to appreciate iTunes and the latest ghetto tunes.
10)I'm not an apple shareholder to receive one for free, or in need to buy and boost the share price.
11)I'm a Google shareholder
12)And a Microsoft one too
13)I'm a poweruser and need root access
14)Will win one on a coming Hexus contest , why pay for it?Even then I'll kill it for an AMD 380
15)Jobs isn't around to persuade me buying one.
16)Because Doctor uses a sonic screwdriver and not an iPhone
17)Because Parm Mann doesn't own one and I hate Man Un
18)Iphones have a lousy reception on C-612 where I live, a block down B-612
19)My Rosie hates apples
20)I hate hype,even Alexander wasn't found in Amphipolis.