Apple rakes in $51.4bn, but iPhone revenue is down 9pc YoY

[badass]

Even if that was true (and it isn't - my kids have iPhone SEs and my old iPhone 6 plus), £1k over 3 years is less than a quid a day. Worth it for me as a media consumption device, satnav, email client, MFA device, backup strava device etc ... oh and a phone....

All well and good but please explain how a phone for a third of that price cannot do all of those things?

[badass]

It was proven a while back that Apple slows down older phones with software updates. Apple actually owned up to this in saying they did it to help battery life. Go and look it up if you really find it hard to believe, I personally cant believe the balls of the company that actually would own up to such a thing.

Apple actually had good reasons for doing that. They just handled it wrong. There should have simply been a setting available to toggle that feature and there wouldn't have been a problem.

[b0redom]

All well and good but please explain how a phone for a third of that price cannot do all of those things?

I didn't said it couldn't. I said a quid a day was worth it for me. I spend way more than that to stand on a train for over an hour on my commute to work.